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Argentina purchasing 12 T-6C Texan training aircraft; budget too 'small' for more shopping
Argentina has few funds available to replace an outdated military fleet beyond buying 12 Beechraft Texan aircraft to train pilots, Defense Minister Julio Martinez admitted. He said actual plans were more modest than those reported by media in Argentina and Brazil in recent months, which said the government was interested in buying war planes from abroad, including from Brazil's Embraer or Mig fighters from Russia. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesAs you can read..., Cmdr. McDod..., just a very small passing mention of a tweet about the U$3,000 million arms purchase from the USA that the Macri administration is retreating from as quick as them Engrish did at Dunkirk...
Mar 30th, 2017 - 10:20 am - Link - Report abuse -9By the way... you may be wondering why the Argentinean Armed Farces choose to buy the Yank T6 Texan planes instead for the cheaper and better Brazilean Tucanos...?
Nostalgia..., lad... Nostalgia...
Our Armed Farces have fond memories from the fiftoes of a plane with the same denominator...:
https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardeo_de_la_Plaza_de_Mayo#El_bombardeo_y_ametrallamiento
From your encyclopedic knowledge of the aircraft industry, why is the Tucano a better buy than the Swiss Pilatus derived Texan. Your incisive insight would be welcome.
Mar 30th, 2017 - 11:23 am - Link - Report abuse +3Who knows what incentives were offered on this purchase. Anyway, I am sure that the trainees will be happier flying a new aircraft instead of clapped out machines.
More pie in the sky!!
Mar 30th, 2017 - 11:33 am - Link - Report abuse +3@Think
Mar 30th, 2017 - 11:41 am - Link - Report abuse +4Why is Argentina gpoing to buy Texan II instead of Tucana? Quite simple. The answer is very simple for those who, by profession, know a little about aviation. Simply because the Texan II is considered the best and most modern COIN airplane of the moment. In addition to being 15 years older than the Texan II, both, Tucano and Super Tucano, are already out of mass production so, Argentina should receive planes with preloaded hours.
These Texan II planes are going to be deployed in the borders where drugg trafficking smugls its drugs.
I am wondering why every single time this gobernment takes any decission that affects drug traffiking peronists complain....it must be related with the fact that peronists in northern provinces are the main traders with illegal substances. What do you think?
Pgerman,
Mar 30th, 2017 - 12:45 pm - Link - Report abuse +3Your observation relates directly to Enrique's criticisms of what Argentina will do with 'warplanes'.
Argentina will not be using them to attack their neighbours.
Securing one's borders from drug smugglers to fight organized crime, is a legitimate use of military aircraft.
Interesting that the Peronists and their supporters, Think/voice and Enrique choose to heap scorn.
@pgerman, Kanye
Mar 30th, 2017 - 01:04 pm - Link - Report abuse +1Bingo!
@Kayne
Mar 30th, 2017 - 01:11 pm - Link - Report abuse +3Actually, Argentina should buy all the pieces of material that appears in a supposed “shopping list” sent to the North American Government. The last 20 years were years of absolute abandonment of the armed forces to the point that Argentina does not have the logistical capacity to transport personnel, control its borders, control its air space and control its Exclusive Economic Zone.
Currently the international community supports the effective control of maritime and air spaces by the different states.
The last visit of the President of the USA to Argentina bare the inability of the Argentine Air Force to protect “Air Force One”. It shows that Argentina can not protect its air space or intervene in the event of a security crisis involving it.
Thinking, in 2017, about a war with neighbors is absolutely irrational and would leave Argentina and its neighbors out of international economic activity. Wars between nations and organized states are a thing of the past ...
There were many articles concerning the inability of the Argentine government to provide airspace protection for the US Air Force One. According to some reports published in Argentine media, its air force had only 7 planes that could even fly minimally at the time of the Obama visit and not one of them was capable of the required airspace protection role. That's pretty much an indication of how Cristina left the Argentine armed forces and much of the country. The Argentine media reminded its readers that their planes could not even match the speed or altitude of a clumsy commercial passenger aircraft and that the best that the Argentine aircraft could do during the Obama visit was to fly as “spectators.” Last I heard the Americans were going to send four of their own F-16 multirole fighters along with two passenger aircraft, and Argentina was going to let four of their incapable planes fly around as low-altitude spectator craft leaking hydraulic fluid on everyone on the ground.
Mar 30th, 2017 - 09:34 pm - Link - Report abuse +1And therein lies the problem with the psyche of the Malvanistas, like our resident 'sociopath' El Thunk. It is not so much they don't want to have the military capability to impose their will on others, it is the fact that they are unable too.
Apr 02nd, 2017 - 10:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0So they play the victim, blame others for protecting their own territories, when they would like nothing more than to have the power and ability to invade at their will.
That is the problem with judging others by your own standards, when you have very low standards, everyone look threatening.
I will let your 'Dunkirk' insult slide Think, I am sure my late grandfather would have had a few words to say to you, he was there and lost many brave and courageous friends. But seeing as it is the day your country embarked on a ridiculous war and then lost, it is understandable that your sociopathic tendencies require you to try and belittle anyone that has put one over on you.
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