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Military equipment from China for marine infantry of Venezuela continues to arrive at Caracas








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Argentina offers Bolivia advanced training aircraft IA-63 Pampa III


(Defensa.com) The defense ministers of Bolivia, Reymi Ferreira, and Argentina, Agustin Rossi, discussed the implementation of a program of military cooperation, including the Argentina offer advanced training aircraft, radars, launchers and barges.

The Argentine Minister stated that for years the two governments working on this issue, considering it is appropriate that the signing of an agreement to implement the projects Argentina co-operation activities, including advanced training aircraft IA-63 Pampa III, barges , a rocket launcher caliber 127 mm CP30 and interchangeable modules, 3D transportable L band radar and secondary radar system for air traffic control.

For his part, Defense Minister of Bolivia said that the Bolivian government is studying the proposal and that there is a favorable environment for the signing of an agreement between the two countries share. The meeting was held in the city of Cochabamba and the ceremony was attended by the President of Bolivia, Evo Morales, military envoys and military authorities of Bolivia.

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Argentine UN contingent in Haiti





ARA "Bahía San Blas"



The Relocatable Military Hospital Argentina Air Force changed its prominent location in Haiti. Taking advantage of the flexibility of its facilities,



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The Paraguayan Air Force, interested in acquiring the KT-1P test Peru's aircraft


(defensa.com) La Fuerza Aérea Paraguaya definiría próximamente la adquisición de 6 Aviones de Instrucción Básica KT-1P Torito que coproducen el Servicio de Mantenimiento (SEMAN) y Korean Aircraft Industries (KAI) en la Planta de Ensamblaje en “Las Palmas”. A tal efecto, el 4 de septiembre, el Comandante General de la Fuerza Aérea Paraguaya, General de División Aeronáutica Braulio Piris Rojas, acompañado del Mayor General FAP Rodolfo Pereyra Cuneo (Sub-Comandante de Operaciones), visitó la Escuela de Formación de Oficiales Pilotos (EFOPI), ubicada en Pisco, (Perú) donde recibió una detallada exposición sobre las características y performances operacionales del KT-1P.


Later, accompanied by the Commander of the EFOPI, FAP Colonel Antonio Garcia Falkenheiner, boarded a KT-1P (FAP enrollment 419) - the first to be assembled in Peru - for a 45 minute flight. At the end of the flight, the General Piris Rojas said the KT-1P recognized the advantages of the aircraft and noted that, procured, strengthen the capacity of training of its pilots. The KT-1P Torito, which has also attracted the interest of the Air Force of Ecuador and Bolivia, is a basic training plane 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 fuel tanks



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Peru and Russia finished resolving delays in the delivery of 13 Mi-171Sh-P


(Defensa.com) The Ministry of Defense of Peru will meet in the coming days with a Russian delegation to resolve the impasse created by the National Bank, which argues that Rostec (Russian Technologies) and therefore Rosoboronexport, are on the SDN List (OFAC Sanctioned Firms - Office of Foreign Assets Control) of the United States and therefore can not realize the outstanding payments that would unlock the delivery of aircraft. The situation is slowing down, among others, sent to Peru of 13 Mi-171Sh Hip H-P for the Army Aviation Brigade - that become necessary before the announced arrival of "El Niño" - and Inspection Program Mayor of the Sukhoi Su-25 Frogfoot Air Force of Peru.

defensa.com has contacted the Treasury of the United States, where we are assured that Rostec not on the SDN list and is not subject to blockades, freezing of assets or debt restrictions. Also they indicate that Rostec indeed on the SSI list (Sectoral Sanctions Identifications) that includes only people linked to various sectors of the Russian economy and that sanctions (Executive Order 13662) only applies to individuals or entities in the United States . This desmotaría the argumentario now holds the Peruvian National Bank.


Peru signed in December 2013 a contract with Rosoboronexport for the supply of 24 combat and transport helicopters Mi-171Sh-P Hip H for about $ 528 million for the Army Aviation Brigade. Social Compensation Program and Industrial (Offset), valued at $ 180 million includes, among others, a Helicopter Maintenance Center - began to be built in the San Camilo in the vicinity of the PAF Base La Joya ( Arequipa) - and a flight simulator as well as the co-production of parts. According to the contract, eight aircraft were sent to Peru in late 2014 - as reported in defensa.com - aboard an Antonov An-124 Ruslan in two batches. The first, on 27 November and the other on 4 December. 3 others arrived in early June 2015. The 13 remaining, and an important batch of spare parts and weapons facilities are Ulan Ude (Russia) waiting to be sent to Peru.

The Mi-171Sh Hip H-P has a length of 18.4 m, a height of 4.7 m. and a rotor diameter of 21.3 m. At the request of the Army of Peru, they will be equipped with 2 motors VK-2500-3 2,700 HP (20% more powerful than the TV-3-117BM). The cruising speed is 215 km / h, the range of 580 km and service ceiling of 4,800 m. at full load. The Mi-P will have 171Sh-art avionics and night vision goggles. Its design allows you to carry 36 troops or 4,000 kilos of cargo. The armament supply comprises a large number of PKM machine guns 7.62 x 54R, pods of UPK-23-250 cannon of 23 mm. S-8KOM rockets and 80 mm and illumination flares 26mm.

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Uruguay clarified that has not preselected or acquired Ocean Patrol aircraft nor any Vympel missiles


(Defensa.com) erroneous information supplied by the Ria Novosti agency, from a Russian executive declarations about the Uruguayan Air Force (FAU) would have Vympe R-73E missiles have been denied by authorities of the FAU, which It has never used such systems. Also, according to officials of the Navy, the statements of Defense Minister Eleuterio Fernandez Huidobro, in requesting the Parliament to evaluate the possibility of voting extra-budgetary resources for the three armed forces for a potential amount of 500 million dollars and they alluded to the possibility of incorporating boats "OPV 80" not reflect any defined preset.

Coincidentally this designation corresponds to the patrol boats designed by Lürssen (technically the likely favorite Uruguayan sailors, recently examined in Brunei), and which correspond to the draft Fassmer - adopted by Colombia and Chile associated with state shipyards in locales- the Antarctic version also features enhanced support in Uruguay.

In more than committed to the level of both human resources and material situation, Uruguayan military hierarchies estimate that within the current economic difficulties retrofitting could become effective by 2018, though, as it is a priority to respond to the lack of sensors, radars and other information systems within a network of currently coastal surveillance VTS, the old fighter aircraft FAU, A-37B Pucara and 2 or 3, they have no hope of survival beyond the end of 2017 and its replacement it is clearly necessary.

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US completes the exercise Dawn Blitz 2015, with the participation of the Navy of Mexico for the first time


(defensa.com) Today Wednesday is the last day of maneuvers multinational exercise Dawn Blitz 2015 (DB-15), which began last August 31 in the Californian coast of the United States and who took part naval units and Marine infantry of the United States, Japan, Mexico and New Zealand.

It is the first time that Mexico participates in an amphibious exercise of this type, which has contributed to the amphibious landing ship ARM "Usumacinta" (A 412), a ship design veteran American LST (Landing Ship Tank) fitted with type transport helicopter Mi-17, 130 marines and special forces unit. The other ship of the Navy of Mexico has taken part is the ocean patrol ARM "Centennial of the Revolution" (P 164), a ship of the class Oaxaca with a displacement of 1,600 tons and equipped with a helicopter AS565 Panther.


Dawn Blitz exercises began in 2011 to coordinate the actions of the US Navy and the US Marines for amphibious landing action. Subsequently, international units were incorporated and has increased the number and type of exercises. This year there have been amphibious landings, live-fire exercises, combat actions against mines, media training Pre-positioning Force of the US Navy, operations from the sea (Sea Basing according to the concept of the US Navy) and operations tactical amphibious ships from the coast. In recent editions of these exercises have been used Marine amphibious ships and allies who participated, helicopters, Osprey or type convertiplanes as LCAC hovercraft (used by the US and Japan). In the case of the United States, they participated units of the Third Fleet and the I Marine Expeditionary Force.






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Paraguay 9% reduced its defense budget for 2016


(Defensa.com) The members of the Bicameral Commission received the Minister of National Defence, Bernardino Soto Estigarribia, to study the Draft General Budget of the Nation for Fiscal Year 2016. Soto he said that the resources allocated to this institution represent 0.94 percent of all, a budget amounting to 1 trillion and a half Gs, stating that the allocation for 2016, compared to the current budget, recorded a decrease of nine percent, this national budget is about 150,000 million Guarani less . This decrease mainly affect physical investment, as he said.

Congressman Mario Caceres (ANR-Itapua), vice president of the Bicameral Budget Committee, said, meanwhile, the concern about the cuts suffered by the Ministry of Defense and asserted that affect the field of construction, mainly. "I worry the situation because I am a frequent visitor to the barracks; I see that funds FONACIDE practically is the obliterated. Minister just said that there will be a construction of 20.00 million Arroyito area; However, 35,000 million is what you have budgeted in relation to FONACIDE. Little or nothing we will ask as to buildings elsewhere in this scenario, "he said. For the parliamentary, budgetary reductions that will affect the ministry they are troubling. "After we're complaining about the situation in the north," he said.

Joint Task Force (FTC)
During the debate, Senator Desirée Masi (PDP), asked for details the minister of Defense on the costs assigned to Joint Task Force regarding the purchase of equipment, salaries and food, due to the number of complaints about alleged irregular use of resources. The Minister replied that the state spends per soldier 60,000 Guarani and added that the FTC does not handle money, but, according to a plan of unique strengths, priorities are for purchases.

The plenary of the Bicameral Commission decided to send a request for information regarding the use of resources for Joint Task Force (FTC). The bodies responsible for administering these resources, as mentioned by the Minister of Defense, is addressed to these requirements.

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The Army of Peru decreed "Dismissals Absolute" for review of the War Material stocks after seizing 51 grenades


(Defensa.com) After threats of extortion and produced sales of shells war on the illegal market, by surprise purposes, the General Commander of the Army of Peru, General Carlos Vergara Ciapciak Army, has issued a decree Irremovability Order Absolute Military Units to Lima. The measure would aim to conduct a review and counting stocks of war material. Yesterday morning, members of the National Police Intelligence seized 51 hand grenades in a house in the district of Brena, Lima. In this regard, the Minister of Defense, Jakke Valakivi Alvarez, said that "tenure decreed in the Army and the review at military installations intended to verify that staff are complying service and check that war material is properly stored and guarded ".

Apparently, 51 hand grenades seized by the National Police are Type BRM-75, manufactured in the former Republic of Yugoslavia. It is fragmentation grenades of 89 mm. height and 57 mm. in diameter, with plastic body and weighs 335 grams (33 of which correspond to plastic explosive). They have a mechanical fuze delay from 3 to 4.4 seconds. Inside are willing 3,000 steel pellets 2.5 mm, the lethal radius of 12-18 m.

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Farewell to the Mirages of Argentina Air Force (photo gallery)



(Defensa.com) After more than four decades in operation and with almost one hundred and fifty thousand hours of flight, the Mirages of the Argentina Air Force retire from active service, and could only do so in a way, in full exercise of navigations long-distance, low-flying and pure adrenaline. The Operation meant not only fly thousands of kilometers to a desolate Patagonian base, with icy winds that take us back to the old ghosts who never left.

Emotion and sadness, coupled with the roar of the ATAR engines, that never failed in flight. In the armored shelters around us explain difficult feelings, aircraft apparently feel like they're at home, pilots and mechanics are young, but the spirit remains, that spirit that could not destroy until today.

They leave without replacement, the base will be empty and will populate hangars of darkness.

The Deltas are tired airframes and structures can still respond, but your electronic longer and lack the teeth needed to fight today. Off and they operate for the last time, in the same places from which many heroes left. We hope to be able to hear the other engines in the near time to protect our skies for so long, with one desire. Hopefully the Air Force will not die.









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