Central/South American Military News, Reports, Data, etc.

Miragedriver said:

Well It appears that the only new aircraft that Argentina will be flying is the Pampas when, since the existing Mirage arrived at the end of their useful life The Mirages should have been in a museum at least a decade ago. The only advantage of the Pampa is that it keeps pilots qualified until 2016, when they revisit the need for aircraft and hopefully justify the purchase of a multirole fighter.

The letter I would want to write to the Minister of Defense

“Minister of Incompetence (Defense): A Pampa II is a noble but simple advanced subsonic trainer, which can be utilized to intercept illegal civilian flights, or serve as a scout and light attack aircraft in a war. The Designers and Engineers at FAdeA even had the foresight to be able to dispense guided munitions from the Pampa II, which is a remarkable capacity. However the only current aircraft that the FAA has to fulfill its roll is the trusted A4-AR, which is not a real fighter jet, it is an attack aircraft. As you may or may not know the IA-63 is not a strike aircraft and interceptor let alone a multirole fighter, and if by the worst stroke of bad luck we should find ourselves involved in a conflict Chile or heaven forbid, the English, they will swipe the floor with us. If by the incredible fortune your Ministry was to do its job and select and aircraft today, it would take 6 to 8 years to negotiate, set up the assembly line, produce, receive and maintain the required amount of operational aircraft for one squadron. In addition we will need to training and maintenance personnel and fill the logistics chains, plus the necessary infrastructure.

I will be easier for you Ministry and “LA Presidenta” to take to the television cameras and simply kill the enemy with laughter from the pathetic comments all of you make.

Please consider the acquisition of and production of the JF-17 that can work in combination with the A-4AR and eventually replace it. If not at least purchase or lease some J-10s that can defend the nation until a purchase scheme or replacement it found and a tender issued. Basically we have been defenseless since the beginning of 2015, when the Mirages were decommissioned, we will be helpless until a tender is issued or until the next government decides to put some pants on and do the right thing.

With great pain,

The Nation”





Back to bottling my Grenache

Click to expand...

That's just crazy! Argentina literally has ZERO defense against any incoming airborne threats if all they have are Pampas!
I hope they at least have decent LR SAMs and tons of them but ultimately you need fast jets!
Pampas will be massacred by even 3rd Gen fighter jets nevermind 4th Gen which pretty much everyone has today.

kwaigonegin said:

That's just crazy! Argentina literally has ZERO defense against any incoming airborne threats if all they have are Pampas!
I hope they at least have decent LR SAMs and tons of them but ultimately you need fast jets!
Pampas will be massacred by even 3rd Gen fighter jets nevermind 4th Gen which pretty much everyone has today.

Click to expand...

The only combat aircraft still flying is the (around 24 operational), which is a very modified A-4M (the Brazilians now have a better version now). However, this is an attack aircraft not an air superiority aircraft. I find it just amazing that in the span of 30 years Argentina went from the best air force in Latin America to the worst.

If Nicaragua gets the Mig-29 from Russia, they will have better aircraft than the FAA. Also, regrettably there are no decent LR SAMs.

The retired Mirage/Nesher fleet



Back to bottling my Grenache

Miragedriver said:

If Nicaragua gets the Mig-29 from Russia, they will have better aircraft than the FAA. Also, regrettably there are no decent LR SAMs.


Back to bottling my Grenache

Click to expand...

Nowadays Brazil has the best air force in Latin america, but let us understand that Brazil is the only air froce that really has a modern aerospace industry.

In the past Argentina, form the 1940s to the 1960s had a real aerospace industry, by 1970 that aerospace went for the PAMPA aircraft a decent jet trainer by the time, however Brazil went for the Bandeirante Series and that is the real difference, the Tucano and EMB-120s boosted Brazil to the third largest aircraft maker after airbus and Boeing.

Argentina did not build a lot of IA-63s Pampas, in my opinion.

the difference Mirage is Brazil is practical, they go for small steps, always thinking practically, making money.

Argentina has incredible capabilities, but the problem is Argentina never has really concentrated in making money.

Safran Mexico

Mexico has for example one of the most advanced aerospace industries in Latin america, and despite it is mostly foreign owned by the 2020 Mexico will become one of the top suppliers of aerospace parts in the world, and if everything is okay by 2030s is likely great part of those parts will be made by mexican suppliers



Argentina will need to follow a similar path to Mexico and Brazil, since most other nations do not build their own equipment with the exception of Chile and Brazil, most latin American air forces are not building their own equipment and do not have real aerospace industries.

i mean in Mexico there are companies that build things like aircraft seats
see

As a supplier of aerospace, Soisa began with seven employees and three operators in a space of 100 square meters. Currently its production of seats, life and tents for emergency slides is 65 thousand square feet and 25% of the world market of seats of all airlines in the world.

Manufacturing products are for export. Its main customers are OEMs as Bomabardier, Airbus and Boeing. So that the company sells to over 70 airlines in the world, details Mesta.

Click to expand...

The whole point is make money and do not spend money, sounds more patriotic to make a jet fighter but in reality what we need is make money does not matter if you build seats

b787 said:

Nowadays Brazil has the best air force in Latin america,

Click to expand...

I agree with 95% of your last post with the exception that the best Air Force is Brazil’s. Brazil has a large Air Force, but the Chilean F-16 can more than handle anything that Brazil has as far as air superiority.

However that will change once the FAB acquires the JAS-39


Back to bottling my Grenache

2011, aboard a friend’s sailboat we went as close as we could to the destroyer LA ARGENTINA, about 3 kilometers of the coast of Mar del Plata. I apologize for the quality of the photographs, taken with a cell phone.





Back to bottling my Grenache

Here are some Brazilian type 22 Frigates that visited Mar de Plata in December of last year








Back to bottling my Grenache

Brazil and Argentina expand naval relations


(Defensa.com) The Commander of the Naval Aviation Argentina Navy (ARA) - COAN, Admiral Guillermo Rolando Bellido, visited Brazil, from 25 to 29 May, where he was received by the Commander of the Naval Force Brazilian admiral Carlos Alberto Matias. Among the topics of interest addressed the possibility of expanding joint naval operations, the use of simulators in the CIAAN (Centro Naval Education and Training) by officers of the Argentina Navy, Naval Aviators exchanges and component maintenance included Argentine in Brazil flight.

During the meeting in Sao Pedro da Aldeia (main base of naval operations in Brazil), both admirals and commanders of the two Naval aviations highlighted the importance of interoperability in their operations. The visitor also met, after touring the Directorate of Aeronautics of the Navy and the aircraft carrier A-12 "São Paulo" with the Commander in Chief of the Fleet, Vice Admiral Liseo Zampronio

Link:


Back to bottling my Grenache

First Industrial Meeting between Chile and Spain

(Defensa.com) Centered in the areas of mining, Aviation, Energy, Defense and Transportation, has been held the first meeting of the Industry of Chile and Spain in order to seek business opportunities between both countries. The area of Chilean Defense was represented by the National Aeronautical Enterprise (ENAER), the operations manager, Klaus Hartmann, gave a historical overview of the company and said that, given the current conditions can be classified as a "Tier-1 "one of the giants of aviation, both in Europe and the US.

Three other topics of interest in the areas of Defense and Aviation were collected at the intervention of former Minister of Transport and Telecommunications Pedro Pablo Errazuriz, the first on the renewal of the satellite "FASAT-C" which is ending its life . This satellite was launched on December 16, 2011 from the spaceport of Kourou and life is projected to 2016-2017, being operated by the Air Force of Chile through its Space Operations Group. According to the report of the Defence Sector in the country, in 2015 the public has a "team work contemplated by the Joint Chiefs, for the drafting of replacement Earth Observing System -Satellite FASat - Charlie, to identify opportunities for national industry. " The second issue addressed was also associated with the satellite area, pending the decision regarding the use of the two positions for geostationary satellites that are assigned to Chile. Finally he drew the attention of potential investors on airport concessions program that Chile has in the pipeline.

Ambassador of Spain in Chile, Carlos Robles Fraga, highlighted two main ideas: that as Chile expects Spanish investments, including Spain expects Chilean investments, and emphasized that the two countries need a strong industrial base to progress.

Link:


Back to bottling my Grenache

Drug Interdiction Exercise of the Armed Forces of Peru


(Defensa.com) The Drug Interdiction Operation, which allowed verifying the operation of the Early Warning Radar Northrop-Grumman AN / TPS-70, involved in the detection of an unidentified aircraft dabbling in a criminal act, in the airspace Peruvian national. He immediately ordered two Cessna A-37B / OA-37B Dragonfly off and locate the raiding aircraft, identify and force it to land in Puerto Maldonado. Escorted by the A-37B / OA-37B, land and is operated by the National Police and the Public Ministry for the corresponding inquiries.

The Air Force of Peru is waiting for Congress of the Republic approved the Law on Control, National Security and Defense Aerospace, which will resume interception and shooting down of aircraft engaged in illicit drug trafficking (TID). The rule, as we announced earlier in defensa.com defines, among other things, Airspace and Defense Identification Zone Air -ADIZ PERU (which extends to the first twelve miles from the maritime domain) as well as circumstances in which an aircraft, both civil and military, may be declared "hostile" to enter national airspace and not identified, which does not respect the established air corridors, which does not have any distinctive nationality and registration or who has distinctive false, entering a prohibited area or flying at an altitude less than 3,000 feet within 40 mn of a radar station or military installation, operating from unauthorized tracks without flight plan or that there is a evidence or suspicion carrying weapons, explosives and munitions and is being used to Illicit Drug Trafficking.


The Minister of Defense of Peru, Jakke Valakivi, accompanied by Chief of the Joint Command of the Armed Forces, Admiral Jorge Moscoso Flores, and the General Commander of the Air Forces, General of the Air Dante Arevalo Abate, and by the President of Executive the National Commission for Development and Life without Drugs (DEVIDA), Alberto Otárola, visited the Air Base of Puerto Maldonado (Mother of God), to observe this Operational Drug interdiction exercise, which was commanded by Colonel FAP Francisco Arrasco Lucero.

Link:


Back to bottling my Grenache

Oma Sud wants to present the Skycar multimission in Uruguay


(Defensa.com) The Italian company, which currently also participates in the Chilean naval tender called "Piquero Project" to replace the Cessna O -2 in the Navy in the country, wants to present to the Air Force and Naval Aviation Uruguay its long-range twin-engine pusher named Skycar. Developed the whole project locally on your production line, the aircraft is certified to EASA (European Aviation Safety Agency) and the FAA.

With a payload of 610 kg, a robust cell, maximum of 348 kilometers per hour speed cruise of 296 km. per hour and has a range of 1,900 kilometers, this small plane, powered by engines Lycoming IO 360 is able to land on grass courts just over 300 meters. The multimission versions for Security and Defence (mainly XMP and Surveyor) include the use of HD cameras, data-link, Flir or other electro-optical sensors, digital mapping, the ability to link data in a cabin glass and Synthetic Vision Full 3D-MFD (multifunction display).

Oma Sud was about to place a certain amount of units in Uruguay privately for a novel air taxi company and related activities, which nevertheless ceased its attempts in 2012, while maintaining its regional interest, especially in regard to defense and security and integration in South American aviation projects. The company is also a supplier of Alenia (doors of the C-27J), Airbus and Boeing.

Link:


Back to bottling my Grenache