The Brazilian government announced on 12 May that it will cut BRL161 million (USD45 million) from the Brazilian Air Force budget, most of which will be culled from the AMX aircraft modernisation programme. Work on the modernisation effort will mostly come to a halt for this year and the air force will have to wait until 2017 to possibly restart work. The plan was to modernise 33 single-seaters (locally called A-1As) and 10 two-seaters (A-1Bs) to the A-1M standard and was already progressing at a slow rate, with few aircraft delivered since the first was received by the air force in 2013.
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