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Almirante Irizar en route to becoming another major scandal for Argentina’s navy
Argentina’ icebreaker Almirante Irizar, docked for repairs since 2007 is en route to becoming another major scandal involving the Ministry of Defence and the Argentine Navy’s fleet. In the last six years Argentina has invested the equivalent of 200 million dollars in the recovery of the vessel that caught fire in 2007 and another 75 million dollars in contracting vessels to supply the Antarctic bases and stations. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesCould turn the IRIZAR into a tourist attraction I suppose but would take a millellium to pay for repairs. ARGIES can you not see that your country is going down the pan. Man up and get a Government that cares for the country.
May 20th, 2013 - 08:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What Navy? Those puddle pirates?
May 20th, 2013 - 08:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Embarrasing.
May 20th, 2013 - 08:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Hands up who knows where all that money went.
May 20th, 2013 - 08:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I thought it remeniscent of a third world country in the making, carry on Kirchner nearly there.
May 20th, 2013 - 08:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Sink It! Claim the insurance! cut the losses on what is just another
May 20th, 2013 - 08:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0mis-management at the highest level of the argentine govt.
mmmmm.... I wonder whos company is reaping the rewards on the mounting refurbishment/upgrade bill??? Kirchner & Son???
@1
May 20th, 2013 - 08:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0But that would be no fun for the rest of us, its great, its like watching Group 4 running a country :-)
This rust bucket is emblematic of CFK’s Argentina.
May 20th, 2013 - 09:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Wouldn’t it be a fitting end to have CFK and her cronies (throw BK in there too) set adrift in the southern ocean in the Almirante Irizar without a Chilean navy vessel is sight to rescue them.
4 ElaineB
May 20th, 2013 - 09:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Oh, Oh!!! Pick me!! Pick me!!! I know,I know!!!!!
KFC donated that money to a chairty for the homeless and the dis-advantanged....... that's what she did, isn't it??
hum.....
I'm wrong again........ arn't I?
LOL you could not make this stuff up Argentina really as embraced the art of embarrassing itself on a weekly bases.
May 20th, 2013 - 10:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Trolls... ??
May 20th, 2013 - 11:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So heres atoast to he relauching f the ARA Irazar Bottoms up! perhaps mightbe appropriate
May 20th, 2013 - 11:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Poor old Willy Brown must be turning in his grave to see such a shambles which today is the Argentine Naval Service and Im sure some of the dedicated seamen in that service must feel the same.
So Cristina had to ask Pepe for the loan of our one and only Herc to ferry supplies to her Antarctic bases. Maybe none of hers were serviceable? I hope we got paid though I doubt it
And where was Tango 1? Ferrying fat Max to BA with a sprained ankle?
THINK,MARCOS,TROLLS any comments??
May 20th, 2013 - 11:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Close to $300 million dollars blown...good. Meanwhile, Argentina slides towards Russia/China as though we were still in the cold war.
May 21st, 2013 - 12:29 am - Link - Report abuse 0The UK/USA etc would quite like the trade but let's face it, China/Russia raping Argentina is not the diplomatic nightmare it might have been 40 years ago.
Go Asia, screw them till they live in the sewers. Ooops, too late!!!!!!!
' en route to becoming another major scandal '
May 21st, 2013 - 01:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0I don't think she is en route, I think this scandal has already arrived.... $200 million on a 36 year old ship....golly
There is something strange about that picture, it hasn't fell over yet :)
May 21st, 2013 - 01:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0Only the ARA ships in the water roll over.
May 21st, 2013 - 02:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0Don't hog all that popcorn over there. Pass that bowl!
May 21st, 2013 - 04:20 am - Link - Report abuse 0It needs the Nelson touch!
May 21st, 2013 - 05:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0Stick some masts on it, cut some gun ports in the side, call it Malvinas and charge the tourists for tours around it!!!
Lmao!!
@19 - RC
May 21st, 2013 - 07:41 am - Link - Report abuse 0I dunno, who would pay to walk around a rusting death trap?
In the meantime the trolls remain conspicuous by their absence.
But no fear, they are currently being rebriefed by Maximo and will soon be back, falling on the usual tactics of:
a. Pulling up irrelevant topics from other countries to somehow prove that those countries are worse than Argentina (my guess will be the Oklahoma tornedo disaster), or:
b. Trying to divert the thread by changing the subject.
c. Insult everybody in the hopes of distracting the thread.
Come on Trolls, DISTRACT, DISTRACT, DISTRACT, but NEVER actually come up with an actual argument to support your deluded La Campora lies.
Argentina, really!
May 21st, 2013 - 09:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0l'm getting embarrassed for you.
Well, the good news is that seeing that it is in a drydock it can't actually sink alongside like the Santisima Trinidad did. Or at least it can't until the drydock sea door breaks (going by the “quality” of the workmanship exhibited generally from Argentina). Then it'll not so much sink as fail to float...
May 21st, 2013 - 10:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0@20 On the subject of DISTRACTION, when HMS Endurance was nearly lost in 2008, it took THREE YEARS for the Royal Navy to charter a replacement. Now commissioned as HMS Protector. Hang on, that's not really “distraction”, is it? More a case of what the UK can do that argieland can't! Still, we must remember that argieland is booming whilst the UK is failing. As demonstrated by the facts that argieland still can't get its submarines to sea and hasn't yet managed to fit nuclear propulsion to one, whilst the UK is still building submarines with nuclear propulsion and has 2 of the latest class already in service, has recently completed the sixth of the most advanced guided missile destroyers in the world and is on-schedule with 2 supercarriers. Good job the UK isn't booming!
May 21st, 2013 - 10:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0oh where did the money go?
May 21st, 2013 - 01:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Apparently CFK is drawing up a complaint to the UN ,
May 21st, 2013 - 05:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It’s all the fault of the British,
But for them the world would give us credit to pay for things,
Bad brit’s lolol.
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It's easy to have a scandal regarding the mismanagement of one vessel in the fleet, but in Argentina's case, it's easily over 60% of the ships are unsuitable for leaving port.
May 21st, 2013 - 08:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Submarines that are unsafe to operate submerged, destroyers with turbines that ubarely function and non- operational weaponry that is no longer safe to deploy...
Of course, the air force is even in worse state. The army tanks (TAMs) are a joke.
Bottom line...... The armed forces of Argentina cannot threaten anyone.
@26 Chicureo,
May 22nd, 2013 - 08:15 am - Link - Report abuse 0For Chile, the UK & the Falklands its security.
Lets hope it stays like that.
Actually, Cristina is the best general that we have.
Keeping her forces weak ensures peace for the South Atlantic.
and we even offered to repair that ship in Chile @ Asmar some years ago. Would this offer have been taken, your ship would be on it's way to Antarctica, for surely less money that it has costed you so far... but hell, no! That would have seriously damaged your proud!
May 22nd, 2013 - 03:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Isolde
May 22nd, 2013 - 04:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You are right, but also it's good to have the ability to bloody their nose if they forget where their national boundaries lay. Chile has no plans for an offensive war, but we would be very effective in a defensive one.
@22
May 23rd, 2013 - 04:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“seeing that it is in a drydock it can't actually sink ”
Coming our way soon, an official CFK edict that all Argentine ships will be based at a new drydock facility to ensure final victory against the UK.
#29 Chicureo... that comment of yours, about them getting a “bloody nose”, is seriously a very strong understatement.
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