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Technological upgrading in the Argentina Navy


(Defensa.com) In the framework of the implementation of research and development projects that contribute to maximize the provision of means of production and national defense technology with a meeting request submission of proposals for projects of technological renovation it was carried out representatives of the General Directorate of Military Industries, CITEDEF and businesses Lexilef SA, INVAP SE, Siatel Redimec SA and SA.

The event took place in the field of Argentine Submarine Force and the Naval Arsenal Mar del Plata, both based in the Naval Base of the city. They intervened operating professionals and specialists Force users. Also, the director general of Research and Development, Admiral Cesar E. Duveaux, presented the broad outlines of the upgrades that require systems from the point of view of research and development. Meanwhile, Commander Submarine Force, Captain Victor M. Pereyra, spoke about the positive impact of these updates from the operational point of view.

Completed presentations, attendees were greeted by the head of the Naval Arsenal Mar del Plata, Captain Marcelo Flamini in the visit which took place at Arsenal Weapons Department he said.

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Argentina advances in developing unmanned aircraft and high-speed air targets


(Defensa.com) The Chief of Cabinet approved the contract between the Ministry of Defense and technology company INVAP state linked to the Argentine Air Robotic System Project (SARA), which includes the design and development of unmanned aerial vehicles and aerial targets high speed. Industrial-Technological Center for Defense through Military Industries and Aircraft Factory Argentina (Fade), plays a key role in the realization of this strategic policy that places the country in a highly complex industry.

We already know the results of a strategic policy in the scientific-technological area with milestones in the domain of complex technologies such as satellites and radars. Now Military Industries will be part of a challenge of the same magnitude, the Argentine Air Robotic System Project (SARA); and will be the owner of the enabling technology for the development of High Speed Aerial Target, one of its main components. The contract between the Defense Ministry and INVAP SE, approved by the Cabinet of Ministers by Administrative Decision 1/2015, opens the way for the realization of this transcendent leap into the future.

The SARA Project, which represents an investment of more than two hundred million dollars, is the country's progress in the emerging field of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), also known as UAVs, through national development and manufacture working prototypes Class II (up to 50 kilos of payload 12 hours of battery life and up to 150 km range), and Class III (up to 250 kilos of payload, 20 hours of autonomy and up to 1200 km range), and the development of package enabling to design a high speed aerial target technologies.

The first phase of the project, entrusted to INVAP, includes the engineering of functional and non-functional requirements of systems and subsystems, the definition of the technical solution in design (basic engineering) and detailed engineering, including generation MET -Models prototypes of technologically Evaluation for testing feasibility and sufficiency of the technologies applied. The second phase lays the foundation for the complete technology transfer and Fade Military Industries, owners of intellectual property, know-how, engineering and product marketing. The development of production lines and mass production of the respective elements to Class II and III UAV will be in the hands of Cordoba aerospace company, while FM is responsible for the same with the corresponding elements of the enabling technology for Aerial Target.

Class II UAVs use a piston engine for national development and Class III will utilize a twin-engine turboprop engine, while both will be built using composite materials. The first comply surveillance in border areas and incorporate a platform for electro-optical sensors and developed by INVAP for the Argentina Navy under the SADI Project (Image Acquisition System); the Class III, meanwhile, added the ability to operate beyond the reach of their terrestrial station control through satellite links or using other UAVs in the same class as relays. They also charged radars will allow fulfill its primary task in monitoring the limits of the Argentine Sea and in addition to 3D radars being manufactured in the country.

Aerial Target High Speed
Regarding the development of enabling package for the design of a high speed Aerial Target (BAAV) technologies aimed at training of the Armed Forces, the contract establishes the requirement of an engine that reaches 900 kilometers per hour, which is reusable to least 20 times and this conditioned to operate in marine environments. The BAAV also need to be programmed and reprogrammed in flight, and be able to return to the point of origin or abort your flight if you lose communication or suffer some failure in the control system.

FADEA CEO, Tulio Calderon said "the best way to understand the magnitude of this project is not to mention the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle but think of a Unmanned Aerial System, as all of these robots can act in coordination with based on land and to each other, sharing the information they collect and re-transmit orders from one to another. "

"This first stage Calderon added requirements set tasks as surveillance, reconnaissance, target acquisition, search and rescue, training, scientific data collection and data link. Not including the attack between missions required in this phase of the project "for the moment.

Deputy General Manager of INVAP, Hugo Albani said: "This initiative has a very large value, is a six-year project with a capacity of very large spill ultimately is much work to domestic suppliers." Moreover, he noted that "in this case the participation of the Armed Forces, Military Industries, CITEDEF, Fade, Aeronautical University Institute of Córdoba, which will be fundamental in the development of the SARA Project adds". This is one of the most sophisticated systems on the continent, other countries chose the shortest way: acquire systems already in service which have no control of the substantial technological elements, or for the operation or for maintenance let alone integration the most critical assemblies.

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A member of the Honduran Army participates in the burning of drug packages in Mateo, a vllage southwest of the capital Tegucigalpa, Honduras. A total of 175kg of cocaine was seized in April during a military operation.
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Armament of the Colombian Air Force (documentary)


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The President of Colombia appoints current ambassador to Washington new defense minister


(Defensa.com) "The new defense minister will be Dr. Luis Carlos Villegas, current Ambassador to the United States. Dr. Juan Carlos Pinzon (current Minister of Defence) will become ambassador to Washington, "the Colombian president, Juan Manuel Santos. Thus culminating three years and eight months of hard work, that Pinzon began September 5, 2011, and that has meant as the longest civil remained at the forefront of the defense portfolio in the country.

This change is due, initially, to the need to soften the speech that the Defense Ministry was driving around the peace process being conducted by the national government with narcoguerrillero group FARC in Havana, which in recent days has more compromising tone taken by the guerrillas, who announced a few days ago a committee of negotiators to deal directly in the country structuring the process of demining in areas affected by this scourge.

The outgoing minister announced to be a defender of the hard line against illegal armed groups, which showed so many times, inclusive, as opposed to the peace process that began Santos with the FARC also was a strong gainsaying the recent suspension of aerial spraying of coca crops with glyphosate, a decision that was due to possible demands of FARC negotiators in Havana, who hide behind this decision on the environmental damage this chemical and contradicts recent statements made by the Colombian government authorizing use this herbicide in agriculture.

According to President Juan Manuel Santos, the departure of Juan Carlos Pinzón responds to a request that the officer would have done in recent days, which would have agreed, but for months Villegas name sounded like new defense minister the corridors of this ministry.

Luis Carlos Villegas took office in 2012 as plenipotentiary negotiator for the peace process with the FARC, by appointment of President Santos, subsequently, in November 2013, he was appointed ambassador to Washington, a way to show to the United States convenience in that currently he represented for Colombia rapprochement with the FARC, as it met the first demands that this narcoguerrillero group announced to launch a peace process and in turn showed the position of the national government against continuing terrorist actions carried out by the FARC in the territory Colombian. (Carlos Vanegas, correspondent in Colombia Edefa Group)




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Uruguayan Army Chief calls for respect for their soldiers


(Defensa.com) "For its unlimited solidarity, asking recognition for his quiet work in distant lands, where deployed in three continents ravaged by the scourge of war worthily represent our country. They ask for recognition for their continued contribution to health and national education. For always with the most fragile when they need it, they ask that they are not humble, that despise not presumptuously, that call not “denueste” by prejudices of the past "and said the Commander in Chief of Force Earth Uruguay, Gral. Guido Manini Rios in the act commemorating Army Day, in the presence of President Tabare Vazquez and opposition figures (including former presidents). The date recalls the Battle of Las Piedras, when the then rebel militias, led by Jose Artigas, defeated a Spanish contingent, led by captain Jose Posadas in the town of Las Piedras, on May 18, 1811.

"In a troubled and violent world the army is prepared to defend the community," Manini said, adding that the institution would "launch [...] neutralizing agents of hatred and discord," in a context in which the minister of Defense, Eleuterio Fernandez Huidobro had to admit, in press conference immediately following, that the "stigmatization" suffered by members of the military is "organized" and that both of them participating social organizations and sectors of the ruling .

These sectors are particularly intolerant and aggressive compared to past episodes military government that took place over 30 years ago, which have steadily eroded the image of Uruguayan Armed Forces, which estimated the population recovers when they act effectively to mitigating consequences of natural or against radical labor disputes disasters, such as periodic clashes be local governments scavengers, task, temporarily assume the military, as well as search and rescue, fighting forest fires or even with Total modest means. In addition, Uruguayan military integrated with solvency peacekeepers in Sinai, Haiti, Congo, or observer missions in various parts of the world, starting with Kashmir, with more than half a century of life.




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The Argentine satellite ARSAT- 1 completes more than six months in orbit as ARSAT-2 is undergoing environmental tests


(Defensa.com) already served six months in space and more than four are serving. Between late February and mid-April ARSAT-1 spent his first season of eclipses, maximum test for thermal and power subsystem, and an important indication of the complete success of the mission. Meanwhile ARSAT-2, which launches in September, is undergoing environmental tests.

Launched from Kourou, French Guiana, on 16 October last year, Argentina's first geostationary communications satellite and served six months in space, period in which overcame many challenges. Including his first season of eclipses, the orbit of ARSAT-1 went every day for umbra and penumbra generated by the Earth. On March 20 last, also they eclipse Earth and Moon were combined, leading to one of the longest eclipse of the XXI Century. Receiving no direct sunlight, ARSAT-1 operation was guaranteed by the energy stored in its battery, allowing you to keep your systems up and a nominal behavior. Also, the satellite perfectly resisted the extreme and rapid thermal transitions involving their entry and exit cone of shadow. In these circumstances the satellite passes within minutes of a heat of + 140 ° under full sun, a cooling of -200 in the dark, to recover the + 140 suddenly well again not be fully illuminated. The eclipses are one of the most important tests faced by geostationary satellites over its lifetime. Successfully completing the first season of eclipses is considered an important indicator of the success of the mission.

Meanwhile ARSAT-2 is undergoing environmental tests on their ability to withstand the conditions of release and life in space is proven. As it was agreed during the meeting with Arianespace (the French firm responsible launch into space) launch ARSAT-2 will be held in September this year.


Matías Bianchi, president of ARSAT said: "Since 2003, in Argentina there is a recovery policy of the State, defense of sovereignty and development of industry and technology that made it possible, inter alia, that the Argentines have our first geostationary satellite. El Arsat-1 satellite is a sturdy exceeded one by one all the challenges faced since launch day "

It is the first satellite of the Argentine Geostationary Satellite Telecommunications System, a plan that involves the design and manufacture of its own satellites and launch into orbit and operated by Argentina in order to increase capacity in telecommunications, defend the positions orbital assigned to the country and promote the development of the space industry. The design footprint ARSAT-1, which concentrates full power on the national territory including the Antarctic bases and Malvinas Islands can provide equal quality connectivity to all regions of the country.

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In 2015 Russia will implement the contract for delivery of Mi-171 helicopters to Peru
Russian Aviaton » May 18, 2015 13:47 MSK

Russia will deliver 16 Mi-171Sh helicopters to Peru in 2015 and implement the contract for delivery of 24 vehicles of the type to the Latin American country, Interfax reports with reference to a source close to the Russian military-industrial sector.

“Under the contract signed by Rosoboronexport in December 2013 eight Mi-171Sh helicopters were delivered to Peru in late 2014; the rest 16 vehicles will be delivered to the customer in 2015,” the source said.

The value of the contract for delivery of 24 Mi-171Sh helicopters to Peru is around $528 million.

“In the network of an offset program (part of the abovementioned contract) an MRO center is being constructed in Peru. The center will be responsible for servicing Russian-produced helicopters. Its opening is scheduled for May 2016,” the source added. According to him, the value of this project is around $42 million.

Since late 1970s about 100 helicopters made in USSR and Russia were delivered to Peru. The country’s armed forces have been operating Mi-8/17 and Mi-24/35 helicopters for a long time.


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US troops goto Paraguay for a joint exercise


(Defensa.com) A contingent of soldiers belonging to the armed forces of the 3rd Battalion, 20th Special Forces Group (Airborne) of the National Guard of North Carolina will come to Paraguay between May 30 and June 1 to participate a Joint Combined Training (JCET for its acronym in English) with military units Paraguay.

In this sense, the Paraguayan Senate approved the temporary instructors to the country of sixteen special forces of the US National Guard from North Carolina, with their equipment, weapons and ammunition for the realization of that income year. These come to Paraguay to board an aircraft of the Air Force of the United States on that date.

"This is part of the cooperation between the two countries in the military field," he told local media the commander of the Armed Forces, Army General Luis Gonzaga Garcete reported that while such exercises are held annually and are part of the regular exchange between the two armed forces, calling them helpful, serving to train the forces of Paraguay in the fight against terrorism, drug trafficking and other areas where staff training is required.

Together with the unit referred participate by Paraguay units as the Joint Special Forces Battalion, Special Troops Army Command Amphibian of the Paraguayan Navy and Command of the Paraguayan Air Force, not being revealed the area where they will develop the exercises this year.

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