Tag: Argentine Air Force

• Monday, January 29th 2024 - 10:54 UTC

  Argentina chooses US-built F-16 fighters over Chinese JF-17s

  

  Argentina's Air Force is to move on with the process of purchasing 24 second-hand US-built F-16 fighter jets from Denmark with the White House's nod, it was reported in Buenos Aires. The decision meant dropping the alternative of Chinese-developed JF-17 units in line with President Javier Milei's policy of not joining the BRICS group and not holding Beijing as a key ally.

• Friday, November 18th 2022 - 18:53 UTC

  Argentine Air Force mission in Denmark considering purchase of F-16 warplanes

  

  A team from the Argentine Air Force is in Denmark reviewing the possibility of purchasing F-16 A/B MLU fighter-bomber jets from that country in the last assessment round before a decision on the matter is made no later than 2023.

• Tuesday, August 30th 2022 - 10:04 UTC

  F-16s for Argentina, --and convincing UK--, US strategy to contain Chinese influence in the South Atlantic

  

  An article published by the United States Naval Institute, USNI, a private, professional military think-tank which since 1873 provides independent ideas for debating US defense issues, has revealed that Washington, fearful of China's advance in South America, offered back in 2020, surplus Danish F-16A/Bs both to Colombia and Argentina, and is “negotiating with the UK to approve the sale”.

• Monday, August 8th 2022 - 09:42 UTC

  Argentina and Uruguay potential customers of South Korea's military equipment

  

  Located in a part of the world with numerous and evolving security challenges not least North Korea, an aggressive neighbor with nuclear weapons and the largest per capita standing army in the world, South Korea has earned a solid reputation as a high quality military equipment manufacturer for land, air, sea and space, and could in a near future have the Argentine Air Force as one of its clients..

• Tuesday, May 24th 2022 - 10:00 UTC

  Argentine Air Force tests JF-17 warplanes

  

  A delegation of Argentine Air Force (FAA) officers has visited China's National Aero-Technology Import & Export Corporation (CATIC) to further evaluate that country's JF-17 Thunder jets for a possible purchase.

• Thursday, January 13th 2022 - 09:50 UTC

  Fifty years since the air link between Falkland Islands and Comodoro Rivadavia

  

  Half a century ago, on 12 January 1972, a seaplane from the Argentine Air Force landed in Stanley harbor establishing the first regular flight between Comodoro Rivadavia and the Falkland Islands. From then onwards, ”sanitary, passenger and general cargo (mail, fresh food, and medicines) became regular flights”.

• Friday, December 17th 2021 - 09:57 UTC

  Argentina to donate 1 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine to Bolivia

  

  Argentina has announced one million doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine will be sent to Bolivia next Monday, making it “the largest donation of doses between countries in South America since the global pandemic was declared,” according to a Health Ministry statement. The doses will be carried in a Hercules C-130 aircraft of the Argentine Air Force.

• Tuesday, November 30th 2021 - 01:49 UTC

  Argentine Air Force cadet found dead

  

  A student at Argentina's Air Force academy for non-commissioned officers in the Córdoba area has been found dead in what appears to be a case of suicide, it was reported.

• Saturday, September 18th 2021 - 09:10 UTC

  Argentine budget includes funds for the purchase of fighter jets from Pakistan

  

  Argentina intends to purchase 12 JF-17A Block III fighters from Pakistan according to a draft budget presented to the nation's congress. The news was disclosed on several media webs, including ukdefensejournal.

• Monday, September 6th 2021 - 08:56 UTC

  Argentine Air Force delivers medical supplies to ailing COVID-19 ailing Cuba

  

  An Argentine Air Force Hercules C-130 aircraft has landed Sunday in Cuba to deliver syringes, needles, surgical masks, gloves and other medical supplies furnished by the White Helmets and the Argentine Movement of Solidarity with Cuba, among other organizations.