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Nicaragua interested in buying T-72 Russian tanks


(Defensa.com) Nicaragua's ambassador to Russia Juan Ernesto Vasquez Araya, announced that his country was considering buying these tanks to replace the T-55. The statements have taken place and the context of participation, for the first time in Nicaragua in the biathlon tanks that began last August 1 in Russia and will run until February 15 in which thirteen countries participate in a unique competition that tests the training of crews of tanks and the qualities of their machines.

International Military Games 2015 (ARMI 2015) is as known, gather near Moscow crews of tanks from 13 countries (Angola, Armenia, China, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Kuwait, Mongolia, Russia, Serbia, Nicaragua , Tajikistan and Venezuela). Participants used the chariot T-72B3 for competition and performed with the obstacle with relays, forced marches and shooting practice with live ammunition.

The ability to test this car battle by crews Nicaragua has allowed familiar with this vehicle, know their characteristics and evaluate it personally. Last year Nicaragua participated as an observer but this year received an invitation to participate. Nicaragua currently has 31 tanks T-55 in service after since the early eighties acquired several lots of these cars from diverse backgrounds and have been decommissioned.

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A T-41D of the School of Civil Aviation of Peru crashed


(Defensa.com) During a training flight, a Cessna T-41D Mescalero School of Civil Aviation of Peru (EDACI) under the Air Force of Peru, impact on the Hill "Candelaria" in Villa Maria del Triunfo (Lima) located about 5.6 km. southeast of the Air Base of "Las Palmas". As a result of the accident, apparently caused by a mechanical failure combined with the dense fog that covered the area, the aircraft - registration FAP 416 - was completely destroyed. The crew, Colonel Renato FAP FAP Lieutenant Solari and Walter Delgado Carrillo, suffered serious injuries being taken to the Hospital of the Air Force. According to current regulations, the High Command of the FAP decided immediately that the Accident Investigation Board (JIA) make the necessary investigations.

The EDACI, created by Supreme Decree No. 07 of May 24, 1958, is the oldest School of Civil Pilots country. He teaches private and commercial pilot. Opera from the Air Base of Las Palmas (Lima) providing at least a dozen Cessna T-41D Mescalero and 172G as well as 4 Piper: 2 PA-34-200T "Seneca II" and 2 PA-34-220T " Seneca III ". In addition, at your disposal there are 5 ultralight Drifter XP-503 and SEMAN "Kuntur".

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New director of Carabineros in Chile


(Defensa.com) The Chilean government announced the appointment of General Krumm Bruno Villalobos as the new Director General of Police. Michelle Bachelet, accompanied by the Minister of Interior and Public Security and former Defense Minister Jorge Burgos, received the Audience Hall of the Palace of La Moneda to the new CEO and who currently occupies the position, General Gustavo González Jure.

Villalobos, 56, joined the institution on January 1, 1979 and was promoted to Inspector General on 4 December 2013. Until his appointment is in charge of the National Intelligence and Criminal Investigation Drug concentrating the work prevention and research in these areas and optimizes human, logistical and information to combat crime resources. This Department was created in 2014 following the bombings that hit two subway stations in Santiago.

Previously, the General Villalobos had participated in the research called "Case bombs" that began in 2009 with four bombings in various parts of Santiago, attributed to anarchist groups, and ended in October 2011 with the acquittal of 13 defendants, which caused a political uproar and a significant defeat for the Public Ministry in charge of carrying out the prosecution of these crimes, for which it had the support of the Directorate of Police Intelligence of Carabineros, which the General Villalobos was Chief . A new chapter in this case was opened on November 13, 2013 when 2 of the 13 acquitted in Chile were arrested in Spain for its connection with the attack on the Basilica of Zaragoza from 2 October 2013. The CEO Gustavo Gonzalez Jure It will remain in office until the 7th of September, while his successor will take from 8 of that month. The ceremony institutional change control is carried out on 14 September.

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First EC-225 for the Argentine Naval Prefecture


defensa.com) Service Aviation Security Force Argentina just got a helicopter EC225 Helicopters manufacturer Airbus, registered PA-14 as part of an order for two machines with an option for a third. The EC225 is a twin-engine helicopter, the class of 11 tons of the Super Puma family.

These aircraft conduct search and rescue missions at sea and extensive national replace a pair of Puma helicopters currently available provided. This security institution, the oldest in the country, is strengthening its air assets that must intervene over a large sea area.

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KAI delivers seventh KT-1P to the Air Force of Peru


(Defensa.com) The Air Force of Peru received the seventh plane Instruction KAI KT-1P Torito, already operating on orders from the Training School Official Pilots (EFOPI) at the FAP FAP Captain Elias Olivera Reman Air Base, in Pisco. The aircraft, which holds 425 FAP tuition, is the third of a total of 16 that are being co-produced by KAI and Plant Maintenance Service FAP (SEMAN) in "Las Palmas". An eighth aircraft will commence no later than next week, the corresponding test flights and acceptance before their official release, while ten others are in various stages of assembly.

The KT-1P Torito - design based export the KT-1C - is a primary training aircraft with a certain ability to perform combat support missions. Length of 10.26 m, 10.59 m span. and height of 3.68 m, and its wing area of 16 m. It is powered by a Pratt & Whitney PT6A-62 950 hp which provides a cruising speed of 574 km / h, a ceiling of 11,580 m operation. and a range of 1,300 km. The maximum takeoff weight is 2,500 kg. The KT-1P has a cabin equipped with latest generation avionics, among others, multifunction displays (MFD), mission computer (MC) and BFI (Back-up Fligth Instrument) panel, along with an oxygen generator system ( OBOGS). It has 5 hard points for FN machine gun pods HMP-250 12.7mm, MK-82 bombs of 250 kg. MK-83 and 500 kg, LAU-131 launcher 70 mm. and additional fuel tanks of 50 gallons.

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Peru repatriated remains of Bolivian fighters from Pacific War


(defensa.com) Peru Bolivia gave the remains of two Bolivian soldiers from Infantry Battalion No. 2 Sucre, killed during the Battle of Tacna (Tacna) on May 26, 1880 during the Pacific War. Both fighters received posthumously the Medal Combatant "Mariscal Andres Avelino Caceres." The ceremony, strictly military, attended, by Peru, the President of the Council of Ministers, Pedro Cateriano Bellido, Minister of Defense, Jakke Valakivi Alvarez, and the General Commander of the Army, Army General Ronald Hurtado Jimenez; while Bolivia attended by Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca, defense ministers, Reyme Ferreira, and Culture, Marko Machicao, as well as the Ambassador of Bolivia in Peru, Gustavo Rodriguez.


According to available information, a Bolivian fighter was located half-buried in 2008 by a team of so-called "Brigada Naval Fighters of the Pacific", who performed a study in the area on the delimitation of the field of Battle of Tacna. The location was kept secret, to avoid the incursion of looters, turning to the Ministry of Culture. In February 2015 an official search made with the remains of an officer and a soldier from Infantry Battalion No. 2 Sucre, known as the "Yellow" and a Peruvian. The repatriation of the remains was agreed by the presidents of Peru, Ollanta Humala, and Bolivia, Evo Morales, during the first binational meeting of cabinet ministers held in Esteves Island (Lake Titicaca, Puno) on 23 June.

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Exploration Vehicle for Argentine paratroopers


(defensa.com) Thirty light vehicles Exploration and Recognition Polaris 4x4 MRZR-4, produced by the American company Polaris Defense, arrived in the country. They will be there and distributed in Parachute Regiment Air Assault Brigade 601, a similar number is expected to equip the company commands 601 and 602 in the coming months. Recall that the Force has already received twenty quad 4x4 Polaris Ranger 800 CC, sixty 500cc ATV Polaris Sportman and a dozen additional sexticiclos Polaris 800 CC.

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The final remaining Mirage V (Nesher/Dagger) were officially ground today due to airframe fatigue and since they have zero military value. Basically Argentina is left without a fighter force.


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Declared "bid desert" the tender for the construction of the Helicopter Maintenance Center for the Army of Peru

(Defensa.com) The Procurement Agency of the Armed Forces of Peru declared "bid desert" the public tender No. 007-2015 ACFFAA-DPC convened in early June, ahead of the construction of the "Center of the Army Aviation Maintenance - Maintenance Division Mayor "San Camilo, La Joya (Arequipa). The portal of the Supervisory Board for Government Procurement (OSCE) realizes that the only two qualified bidders, Mota-Engil SA and COSAPI SA, chose to retire because their costs exceeded the budget of $ 30 million allocated to the process.

According to the bases of the public tender No. 007-2015, which must be redesigned and reconvened, the Aeronautical Maintenance Centre - which will occupy an area of 500,000 square meters in San Camilo - provide, inter alia, two hangars and flight test station and control tower, switchyard, power testing platform, an airstrip and two heliports.

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