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Russian fighter jet Su-35 will return to the Brazilian Air Force tender for the supply of multifunctional combat aircraft, RIA Novosti reported, citing a source in the Brazilian military-industrial complex. As expected, F-X2 tender to supply fighter jets, suspended in early 2011, will be resumed as soon as the F-X3. If the basic conditions of the competition will not change, the winner will be awarded a contract to supply 36 aircraft and an option for production of even a hundred fighters. The Brazilian Government has announced a tender for the supply of FX fighters in 2001. His conduct was discontinued in 2005, and in late 2007, the competition was relaunched as the F-X2. Some parameters of the tender have been revised. In early 2011 it was reported that the President of Brazil Dilma Russef suspended F-X2. The reason for the suspension was the authorities' intention to include in the competition of new entrants, as well as review proposals of companies, previously applied for the tender. Evaluation of some Brazilian media as a result of the revision proposals in the tender may return the Su-35 fighter and the European Eurofighter Typhoon. Su-35 took part in the Brazilian competition until the end of 2008, but was later expelled from the program. The aircraft, which the Brazilian Air Force plan to purchase within the FX, intended to replace the outdated fighter AMX International AMX, Northrop Grumman F-5E Tiger II and the Dassault Mirage 2000. Prior to the suspension of F-X2 bidders are French fighter Dassault Rafale, the Swedish Saab JAS 39 Gripen NG and the U.S. Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet. Previous Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who left office Dec. 31, 2010, preferred the French aircraft, but in September 2009 announced that the decision on which aircraft will be doing his successor.
