In November 2018, Nigeria awarded a $500 million contract to the Sierra Nevada Corporation to manufacture 12 A-29 Super Tucano attack aircraft planes for the Nigerian Air Force.
Exactly a year earlier, in 2017, Brazilian aviation giant Embraer announced that it had received a firm order from the
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