The Argentine Air Force will decommission the A-4AR in 2018. FAA without fighter aircraft
The national government is considering options to replace A4-AR fighter jets Fightinghawk. This is the last transonic combat aircraft that remain to the Argentina Air Force. Without having yet achieved the relief for Mirage that were decommissioned by the Kirchner administration, now scythe hanging over aircraft A4-AR due to the obsolescence of its components because there is no longer market (suppliers) where to get parts to keep them in service. The head of the Air Force, Brigadier greater Enrique Amreim, sent last June 8 two cases the defense minister, Julio Martinez, who entered table entries with the number MD No. 1049/2016. They aeronautical boss says. " . . before the next decommissioning of the A4-AR this force is studying various systems whose characteristics enable the introduction of staff in the twenty-first century technology at reasonable costs acting as a tool to facilitate the transition towards 4th generation aircraft. " The notes presented to the Minister advanced training two devices with limited capacity for light attack. One of Italian origin manufactured by Alenia Aermacchi under the name M-346 Master and other developed by the South Korean company Korea Aerospace Industries, the KAI Golden Eagle T.50. Amreim also states that these aircraft will allow for "Aerospace Defense operations and monitoring and control tasks that are being developed under the Border Plan contributor to Decree No. 228/16". Military aviation industry experts consulted by this newspaper multirole doubt the ability of those planes that were designed and developed for advanced training and that market needs "accessories" were added for light attack missions attributed.
The record turned the minister is the first formal step to gather technical information and quotation of 10 aircraft, a task that started the secretariats by Angel Tello (Strategy and Military Affairs), Hector Lostri (Science, Technology and Production) and Walter Ceballos ( Defense Logistics services).
The more informed about the business aircraft is Ceballos. The restless secretary of Logistics was the first to get in voce news from the Italian gondolas, not only the M-346 Master but also the possibility of renting aircraft for basic training produced by the Italian firm Costruzioni Aeronautiche TECNAM whose local subsidiary Aerotec SA it is based in Mendoza.
Ceballos, facilitator of the operation, perhaps because of its proximity to the activity, was aviation cadet school, compiled the information came from various sectors, including the businessman Cristiano Rattazzi. The Italian package is broad and includes ocean patrol ships, multirrueda trucks and other supplies, all available within a plan of sales abroad by 1,000 million dollars to soft rate, say the bidders.
Retired Alberto Borsato, National Director of Standardization and Technical Certification, brigadier issued the first opinion in a memo to his boss, Secretary Lostri. Borsato text, received by the Secretariat of Science, Technology and Production 29 June, identified No. 545/16, sheds light on the early low of aircraft. "According to what was stated in the BIM No. 049, the Air Force sought to extend the life cycle System A4-AR Armas until 2022. However by different limitations on availability of spare parts obsolescence, currently the Air Force verbally expressed that the limit of life under the same would be the year 2018 ".
It also puts consideration for who wants to interpret a warning that the aircraft chosen, both the Italian M-346 as the Korean KAI T-50, are advanced trainers, the same mission that has the Argentine development IA-63 Pampa III Argentina seeking to produce Aircraft Factory (FAdeA), now in charge of the entrepreneur Ercole Felippa.
"Aircraft transition for which information is required are aircraft advanced training and light attack of features that, while comparable, are somewhat higher than those of IA 63 Pampa III is in flight fulfilling certification stage," says Borsato. Concludes with the following paragraph: "Based on the information obtained, the Air Force should submit a specific project to establish precisely the ability to cover, and note the different options and relevant weights, which should include the IA-63 Pampa III ".
Text translated from Zona Militar
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