Tag: Argentine Air Force

• 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.

• Wednesday, June 23rd 2021 - 09:20 UTC

  Argentina's purchase of Korean fighters falls through: UK's arms embargo

  

  Argentine defense minister Agustín Rossi is furious with the UK for having blocked the purchase deal of several Korean manufactured training jet fighters FA-50 to re-equip the Air Force and which he had anticipated last October. “A new display of imperial arrogance”, Rossi described the incident.

• Wednesday, May 26th 2021 - 08:02 UTC

  Argentine Air Force faces another hurdle for its re equipment plans

  

  Another hurdle has cropped up for the Argentine Air Force attempt to begin recovering its once might, which succumbed during the Falkland Islands conflict and with obsolescence. In effect, a long list of countries have been most willing to sell supersonic fighter jets to Argentina, but mainly costs and the British arms embargo have conspired.

• Saturday, May 8th 2021 - 08:40 UTC

  Chinese delegation in Argentina to offer the Air Force, the supersonic aircraft JF-17

  

  A top-ranking delegation from China's National Aero-Technology import-export corporation, CATIC, is currently in Argentina to discuss defense cooperation and with the proposal to offer the Argentine Air Force supersonic capable aircraft, according to InfoDefensa.ar, an Argentine site which specializes in defense industry issues.

• Wednesday, March 31st 2021 - 06:47 UTC

  LADE makes maiden flight for Comodoro Rivadavia-Puerto Madryn route

  

  A De Havilland Canada DHC-6-200 Twin Otter of Argentina's Líneas Aéreas del Estado (LADE) took off from Comodoro Rivadavia airport Tuesday morning and landed at Puerto Madryn at 10.10 am in what became the new route's maiden flight.