The U.S. had offered 32 Royal Danish Air Force (RDAF) F-16 MLUs for the Argentine Air Force (FAA) to regain supersonic capability, however, following the Biden administration’s decision to support the training of Ukrainian pilots on Western fourth-generation fighters, it is likely that the Danish F-16s will end up being transferred to Ukraine. If not all of them, at least a substantial part of them.
During the delivery ceremony of a new Pampa III advanced trainer and the presentation of the IA-58 Pucará Fénix cockpit modernization that took place on May 18 at the FAdeA (Fabrica Argentina de Aviones) facilities, Brigadier General Xavier Isaac, head of the Argentine Air Force, commented to the journalists gathered there that he is in the final stages of negotiations with the US government for the possible incorporation of 32 Danish F-16 MLU multirole fighters.The U.S. proposal competes with China’s offer of a dozen JF-17 Thunder Block 3 fighters to equip the FAA with supersonic fourth-generation multirole fighters. But Washington’s offer to Argentina for the Danish F-16s could suffer an unexpected setback.
