Tag: ARA Hercules

• Wednesday, June 14th 2017 - 02:53 UTC

  Argentine President visits first Hercules completely remodeled in the country

  

  President Mauricio Macri visited the El Palomar Air Base, to inspect the first Hercules C-130 aircraft to undergo a modernisation process entirely in the country. During his tour of the base, Macri spoke with Air Force aviators who operate these aircraft in humanitarian missions worldwide.

• Monday, November 16th 2015 - 06:36 UTC

  Argentina's Kfir contract questioned by Air Force: they lacked “a weapons' system” and radar

  

  The number three man in the Argentine Air Force refused to sign the purchase of 14 Israeli refurbished Kfir fighter jets, an operation involving 360 million dollars, and which supposedly would have given the depleted service a breath of fresh air.

• Thursday, January 24th 2013 - 20:02 UTC

  Argentine Defence minister ‘ashamed’ of the Santisima Trinidad sinking in port

  

  Argentine Defence Minister Arturo Puricelli said that the sinking of the destroyer ARA Santísima Trinidad could have been a planned sabotage attack, but also confessed that when President Cristina Fernandez asks him why the ship sank his face drops with embarrassment.