Tag: Argentine Navy

• Sunday, December 24th 2023 - 16:09 UTC

  Argentine airplane from 1982 to be restored and shown at museum?

  

  The Italian-built Aermacchi MB-339 used by then-Argentine Navy Lt Owen Crippa on May 21, 1982, to attack the HMS Argonaut is about to be flown from the United States to be restored in the city of Sunchales and later displayed at a museum, it was reported last week.

• Wednesday, December 6th 2023 - 10:28 UTC

  Delivery of Orions to Argentina delayed over unpaid bills

  

  The delivery of the first of the four second-hand Lockheed P-3 Orion aircraft purchased from Norway for the Argentine Navy has been reported to be behind schedule as the first payment was not made in time according to the Oct. 17 arrangement. In this scenario, Norwegian authorities have made it clear that the units were not to be released.

• Saturday, June 3rd 2023 - 12:46 UTC

  Former detention center in BA granted Mercosur patrimony status

  

  The former Argentine Navy's Mechanics School, which functioned as a clandestine detention center during the 1976-1983 military regime and was later turned into the Memory Museum to promote awareness about human rights violations, has been granted Mercosur cultural heritage status by the Culture Ministers of the bloc, who convened Friday in Buenos Aires for their 54th meeting.

• Monday, March 13th 2023 - 11:18 UTC

  Argentine Navy rescues injured sailor off South Georgia Islands

  

  The Argentine Navy rescued from the oceanographic fishing research vessel (BIPO) “Victor Angelescu”, 90 miles off South Georgia Islands, a 55-year-old man who suffered a crushing trauma to his right leg, reported Clarin. The operation involved the icebreaker ARA Almirante Irízar.

• Monday, January 23rd 2023 - 07:26 UTC

  Argentine Navy needs underwater units, manned or otherwise

  

  The Argentine Navy plans to purchase two unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) for hydrographic and minehunting missions for € 450,000, in addition to new traditional units for its submarine command, it was reported.

• Tuesday, September 13th 2022 - 08:34 UTC

  Rio Santiago shipyards working on amphibious toward state ownership

  

  The Argentine Rio Santiago Shipyards (ARS) are making plans to build a unit for the local Navy, which might turn out to be an amphibious ship of the LPD (Landing Platform Dock) type or a tank landing ship of the LST (Landing Ship Tank) type, it was reported in Buenos Aires.

• Friday, July 22nd 2022 - 09:50 UTC

  Argentine Navy to auction decommissioned ships

  

  The Argentine Navy has announced it will auction seven vessels that have already been decommissioned, many of which had been unoperational since 2013, it was reported.

• Friday, July 8th 2022 - 22:37 UTC

  Argentine Navy 2022 social campaign comes to an end

  

  The Argentine Navy has rounded up its 2022 Socio Sanitary Fluvial Campaign with the arrival of patrol boats ARA King and ARA Río Santiago at the Buenos Aires Naval Base, it was announced this week.

• Friday, June 3rd 2022 - 21:33 UTC

  Argentina's Defense Minister welcomes new French-built OPV

  

  Argentina's Defense Minister Jorge Taiana Thursday welcomed the French-built Ocean Patrol Vessel (OPV) ARA Contraalmirante Cordero, the last of the four ships purchased through the National Defense Fund (FonDef).

• Wednesday, June 1st 2022 - 10:23 UTC

  Falklands war: Argentina insists HMS Invincible was hit by an Exocet; Taiana recalls the joint navy/air force mission

  

  While in Tierra del Fuego Argentine defense minister Jorge Taiana participated with Malvinas War Veterans of the commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the joint operation attack on the Royal Navy's carrier, HMS Invincible, while again condemning UK for the “illegitimate” occupation of the Falklands/Malvinas Islands.