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U.S. Offers to Sell Missile-Enhanced F-16 Fighter Jets to Brazil.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, May, 2002

By Katie Fairbank, The Dallas Morning News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

May 23--The Pentagon has offered to sell advanced F-16 fighter jets to Brazil, accompanied with radar-guided air-to-air missiles to help grease the deal.

The Defense Security Cooperation Agency made a presentation to the Brazilian government on Wednesday offering to sell the advanced F-16 Fighting Falcon with associated weapons and equipment, including AMRAAMs, or advanced medium-range air-to-air missiles.

In the past, the Department of Defense has worked to not introduce new technology such as AMRAAMs into a region to avoid upsetting the military balance and starting an arms race.

But officials believe the move is justified because neighboring Peru has...

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