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United States donates speedboats to the Navy of Colombia


(Defensa.com) The National Navy of Colombia has received from the United States six quick to perform missions of interception of vessels involved in illegal trafficking boats. The boats have been donated by the United States through the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) to strengthen the capacity of Colombia to combat drug trafficking in the Caribbean.

The ceremony was attended by Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzon Bueno, the US ambassador in Colombia Kevin Whitaker and Commander of the National Army of Colombia among other guests. The defense minister said that "these ships will allow fight against crime and drug trafficking in Colombia. This is our main goal with our ally the United States. " He also assessed that "America is our partner and has provided resources and ongoing support in this fight, which is why today we received these vessels will increase our ability to intercept tons of cocaine traffickers."

Ships are the type Apostle Tops and T-410 is the first installment of a grant ten boats, the other four being designed to perform similar operations but in the Pacific. Thus capacity will increase to perform maritime interdiction missions against suspected of being used for illegal trafficking of drugs or weapons and boats.

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Alberto Nisman's computer 'accessed more than 60 times after his death'

Mystery surrounding death of Argentine prosecutor deepens as judicial sources say his computer was accessed after his death and detectives accused of contaminating crime scene


A computer belonging to Alberto Nisman, the prosecutor who was earlier this year, was accessed more than 60 times after his death.

Judicial sources told Argentine newspaper Clarin that at 8.07pm on Sunday January 18. The autopsy ruled that Nisman, 51, was dead by 3pm - shot in the head in the bathroom of his Buenos Aires apartment.

His accusations against Argentine president Cristina Kirchner four days before his death - that she had covered up Iranian responsability for the country's worst ever terrorist attack - made him a high-profile, controversial figure.

He was working extensively with security sources to investigate , and the day after his death had been due to present his findings in parliament.


His death has become a source of much fascination in the South American country. It was initially ruled as suicide, but now Nisman's family - and most of Argentina, including the president - believe that to be unlikely.



On Thursday Clarin provided a new twist, with the revelation about the computer.

The paper said that it was not yet known whether the "entries" into the computer - technicians refer to registers, or events - were made directly into the computer, or remotely. It was also unclear whether the computer was accessed via a USB stick, an external hard drive, or through a wifi network or telephone line.

Websites for newspapers Clarin and La Nacion were opened, and his Yahoo email inbox - although none of the emails were read.

A Google search was carried out for one word: "Psicodelia" - psychodelia. No one has yet been able to explain the significance of the word.



The revelations about the computer are the latest in a long line of strange twists.

On May 31 one of Argentina's most famous journalists, Jorge Lanata, broadcast Periodismo Para Todos footage from the crime scene. It appeared to show the from the gun, working without gloves, and contaminating the scene.

A book by Nisman’s cousin, Andrea Garfunkel, was published last week and launched fresh accusations that he was killed because of his investigation into the 1994 bombing. She noted the unused pajamas found near his bed, which she says suggests he investigators found him.

On March 5 his ex-wife, Sandra Arroyo Salgado, a judge, said his death was "". She has begun her own independent investigation into the events surrounding Nisman's death.

The official inquiry, lead by Viviana Fein, is expected to report back in around six weeks time.


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Colombian Marine Corps teaches gunnery course to members of the Naval Forces of Honduras


(Defensa.com) completed the course Gunner River by instructors Colombia Marines 25 members of the Naval Forces of Honduras. The course is part of the "Plan of Action for Technical Cooperation of the Colombian Government and the Government of the United States to Central America 2015", the aim is to establish standards and establish criteria governing the instruction and training of the Navy of Honduras . Participants received lectures on weapons, safety, history M4 rifle, rifle and machine gun Beretta M60, also received school shooting instruction, overview and characteristics of river use knots and humanistic integral formation.

In the area of technical training and practical shooting exercises, practice reaction is performed in different positions, exercises adaptation weapons immediate instruction to injured persons, ill or injured in combat care, as well as an overview of the Water Operations. In order to continue this cooperation, are simultaneously developing courses river operations for the Armed Forces of El Salvador and Guatemala and reinforced polyester and fiberglass for Panama air, all programs targeted training by staff Colombian Marines.

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Colombian Marine Corps teaches gunnery course to members of the Naval Forces of Honduras

(Defensa.com) completed the course Gunner River by instructors Colombia Marines 25 members of the Naval Forces of Honduras. The course is part of the "Plan of Action for Technical Cooperation of the Colombian Government and the Government of the United States to Central America 2015", the aim is to establish standards and establish criteria governing the instruction and training of the Navy of Honduras . Participants received lectures on weapons, safety, history M4 rifle, rifle and machine gun Beretta M60, also received school shooting instruction, overview and characteristics of river use knots and humanistic integral formation.

In the area of technical training and practical shooting exercises, practice reaction is performed in different positions, exercises adaptation weapons immediate instruction to injured persons, ill or injured in combat care, as well as an overview of the Water Operations. In order to continue this cooperation, are simultaneously developing courses river operations for the Armed Forces of El Salvador and Guatemala and reinforced polyester and fiberglass for Panama air, all programs targeted training by staff Colombian Marines.

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Awww...yes the good ole assembly and disassemble of an M-60 machine gun. I can remember putting all of the pieces back together in under a minute when I was in ROTC. The hardest part is connecting the bolt action onto the barrel assembly.

The Ministry of Defense of Argentina makes public the secret archives of Malvinas


(Defensa.com) From today, June 11, inventories of all existing documentation in the files of the Armed Forces on Malvinas Argentinas are publicly accessible. Defense Minister Agustin Rossi made the announcement this week during a ceremony led by Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner Day Reaffirming the sovereign rights over the Malvinas Islands.

The documents were declassified from the Presidential Decree 503/2015, which states that "since the current democratic and republican state corresponds relieve the secrecy and confidentiality of the information and documentation that may facilitate the full knowledge of the facts related to the war of South Atlantic ". With him obrante documentation related to conflict in the Archives of the Armed Forces and instructed the Ministry of Defense to the public consultation preparing to records of all such documents and declassified query mode, which is enabled on the platform

This site was created by the Ministry of Defense in 2013 to the discovery of documents in the last civic-military dictatorship on 31 October of that year in the basement of the building Condor. Then issued Resolution MD No. 445/2013, whereby a period of six months was granted to condition, inventory and documentation would relieve made available for public consultation. After the period, the website , which allows the consultation of such documents, and query terminals were set up at the National Library of Aeronautics was launched.

As recorded by this site, "then the work of surveying, identification and description of the case-documentary collections in the archives of the Armed Forces, new documents that allow deepening investigation of the facts related to the war that are working later were detected the date of completion of the final report prepared by the "DADES COMMISSION OF ANALYSIS STRATEGIC POLICY AND MILITARY CONFLICT IN THE SOUTH ATLANTIC" (Rattenbach Report) ".

All users who consult this documentary heritage should complete the user registration and sign the express agreement of responsibility for the dissemination of information. The user assumes the responsibility for the processing of data; this means the commitment of the requested documentation will be used exclusively for cultural purposes without giving publicity to holders of sensitive data that will eventually have access; and in case you need do it, and if you do not get the authorization of the holder shall undertake to dissociate sensitive data on the identity of the person.

In this sense, to preserve this issue, restrictions on the dissemination of these documents and are contemplated making reprographics (copies) or the publication of these documents will not be permitted solely reprographic requirements to be allowed to court and government agencies (departments of state bodies directly, to the extent of compliance with their respective powers). Such requests must be made in writing and submitted to the Ministry of Defence or to the Chiefs of Staff of the Armed Forces concerned. In the case of individuals, the photocopying of the document to the holder of the information contained in the document are permitted. The application must be carried out by the data subject, his heirs, or person authorized by the owner. Such requests may be made through the website archivosabiertos.com, which will be forwarded to the appropriate agency for further proceedings; and each institution to file or to the Ministry of Defense.

The documents will be available for inspection at each Force the respective archives. For more information, you can access the standardized description of each archival institution through the website archivosabiertos.com.

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Awww...yes the good ole assembly and disassemble of an M-60 machine gun. I can remember putting all of the pieces back together in under a minute when I was in ROTC. The hardest part is connecting the bolt action onto the barrel assembly.

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I keep asking Santa to bring me one for Christmas. But, sadly one never arrives

The Haiti Uruguay-Peru battalion is active, comprising 410 troops from both countries


(Defensa.com) On June 4 it was the date set by MINUSTAH to officially celebrate the creation of the Joint Battalion Uruguay - Peru, called URUPERBAT. According to the agreement concluded on 25 February last between Uruguay and Peru, the Battalion consists of 410 troops of both nationalities distributed as follows: 250 troops from the hitherto Grouping of Companies Uruguay and 160 soldiers of the Republic of Peru .

The creation of the Joint ceremony Battalion took place in the Uruguayan Base "Battle of Stones" in the town of Morne Cassé, where more than 90 staff of the Company "ALFA" (Grouping of Companies Uruguay) and 80 members of the Company "BRAVO" (Republic of Peru), greeted the authorities under Lieutenant Colonel Pedro Gomez. Troops walk from both nationalities, riot fractions, J-8 light vehicles, trucks Ural reconnaissance vehicles EE-3 Jararaca Engesa and Transport Armored Personnel Skot M-93, were part of this ceremony.


Was imposed as a Second Battalion Chief Set Peru Uruguay Lieutenant Colonel Pedro Gomez Army of the Eastern Republic of Uruguay, and as Chief of Staff of the drive to Peña Mayor Douglas, Army of Peru, being in this way and after a parade of troops, officially constituted the battalion Set Uruguay-Peru: URUPERBAT, with the responsibility to fulfill the tasks assigned in the Central and Northeast departments of the Republic of Haiti.

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U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron and Argentinian President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner asserted their countries rights to the

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as they traded diplomatic barbs across the Atlantic Ocean.

Cameron said he had “robustly defended” Britain’s ownership of the islands at an EU-Latin America summit in Brussels, while Fernandez used a speech in Buenos Aires to accuse the British premier of being “almost rude” when he interrupted her foreign minister during a dinner in Brussels on Wednesday.

“The prime minister robustly defended the Falklands and the islanders’ right to self-determination in response to the Argentine foreign minister raising the issue,” Cameron’s office said in an e-mailed statement. “The prime minister underlined that the islanders had expressed their view in a referendum and that should be respected. He went on to add that the waters around the Falklands were territorial waters and it was unacceptable of Argentina to threaten investors seeking to operate there.”

The two countries have continued to dispute ownership of the islands, which Britain seized back from the Argentinians after they

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. Argentina says the islands were wrongly taken from it by Britain in the 19th century. The U.K. said in March that it will spend 180 million pounds ($278 million) over 10 years to modernize its defenses of the archipelago.
Fernandez accused Cameron of talking over her foreign minister, Hector Timerman, when he used remarks at the dinner to assert Argentina’s right to the islands.

Energy companies have been seeking to exploit the oil reserves beneath the islands’ territorial waters and Argentina filed criminal charges in April against five companies it accused of carrying out exploration activity without the permission of Argentina’s Energy Secretariat.

The Falkland islanders voted by 1,513 to 3 in 2013 to stay as a U.K. overseas territory.

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IMHO, this woman and her administration simply do not know when to quit.

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IMHO, this woman and her administration simply do not know when to quit.

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She is an embarrassment to the entire nation!

Some time ago she was complaining to the defense minister that the Air Force and Navy could not do more to intimidate the British. When she was told that the she had reduced the military’s budget and equipment procurement, she verbally retaliated that she did not want to hear feeble excuses for their incompetence


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Some of the fancy electronics for the IA-63 Pampa Mk III








Presentación IA-63 PAMPA III (FAdeA Argentina)


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