Embraer MFT-LF (Modern Fighter Trainer- Light Fighter) was the beginning of a light fighter

Fighter aircraft

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/advanced trainer

Trainer (aircraft)

A trainer is a class of aircraft designed specifically to facilitate in-flight training of pilots and aircrews. The use of a dedicated trainer aircraft with additional safety features—such as tandem flight controls, forgiving flight characteristics and a simplified cockpit arrangement—allows...

 project announced in the late eighties by Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer

Embraer

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. The Brazil

Brazil

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ian government did not want to fund the project alone and was counting on a foreign partner to make the project viable. With the end of the Cold War

Cold War

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, no country came forward and the project was eventually scrapped.

See also

• Atlas Carver
  Atlas Carver
  The Atlas Carver was a project launched in the 1980s by the South African Atlas Aircraft Corporation to replace the aging Canberra, Buccaneer, and Mirage III in the South African Air Force...
  
  
• FMA SAIA 90
  FMA SAIA 90
  The FMA SAIA 90 was an air superiority aircraft designed by the FMA with the collaboration of Dornier in the mid-1980s...
  
  
• IAR 95
  IAR 95
  -See also:-References:* * International Air Power Review, Winter 2001-2002-External links:* Romanian Supersonic Projects...
  
  
• Novi Avion
  Novi Avion
  |-See also:-References:* Newspaper article on Novi Avion* Aerosvet Magazine* Jane's All the World's Aircraft...
  
  
• PZL-230 Skorpion
  PZL-230 Skorpion
  -See also:* Atlas Carver* Embraer MFT-LF* FMA SAIA 90* IAR 95* Novi Avion-References:...