Tag: Argentine Navy

• Saturday, November 18th 2017 - 18:36 UTC

  Ice patrol HMS Protector joins the search for the missing Argentine submarine

  

  The Royal Navy has deployed ice patrol ship HMS Protector to help search for an Argentine submarine that went missing in the South Atlantic with 44 people on board. Contact with the Argentine military sub ARA San Juan was lost three days ago, Wednesday.

• Thursday, November 16th 2017 - 08:55 UTC

  Argentine navy and air force dispute operation of the five refurbished Super Etendard

  

  The purchase by Argentina of five refurbished French Super Etendard to help with security measures when Argentina hosts the 2018 G20 summit, which will bring together the world's top leaders, has triggered a dispute among the country's services since the current defense minister, Oscar Aguad wants to concentrate all military aircraft in the Air Force.

• Wednesday, July 5th 2017 - 08:11 UTC

  Argentine destroyer damaged as she leaves for international exercise

  

  Destroyer “La Argentina” was damaged when it rammed its bow against a jetty at the Punta Alta naval base while attempting to make it to the high seas. She is scheduled to join an international naval exercise in the Pacific and bring several helicopters on her return trip from Peru.

• Saturday, May 6th 2017 - 07:44 UTC

  Reefer in distress heading for the Falklands; scheduled to arrive Saturday morning

  

  A Panama flagged merchant vessel with a crew of 42 sailing in the South Atlantic sent a distress call following “a massive intake of water” in one of its holds, but will attempt to reach the Falkland Islands on its own means, according to a Friday report from the Argentine navy.

• Wednesday, May 3rd 2017 - 08:57 UTC

  Argentina paid homage to officers and crew that went down with the cruiser General Belgrano 35 years ago

  

  Argentina paid homage on Tuesday to the 323 crew and officers who lost their lives when the Navy's cruiser General Belgrano was sunk on 2 May 1982, by a British submersible in the midst of the Falklands conflict 35 years ago.

• Tuesday, December 13th 2016 - 11:01 UTC

  Argentina to spend over $ 40 billion on military equipment

  

  President Mauricio Macri has approved the purchase of airplanes for the Air Force, patrol vessels for the Navy and armored vehicles and combat rifles for the Army, it was announced Monday to give the Armed Forces back some of their lost firepower, Defense Minister Julio Martínez revealed. The total purchases will surpass 40 billion pesos (2,500 million US dollars), the minister added.

• Thursday, October 20th 2016 - 20:31 UTC

  Argentine navy admits testing refurbished Exocet missiles and torpedoes last February

  

  The Argentine ministry of Defense has confirmed that the Navy was involved in military exercises in the high seas last February including firing an upgraded version of MM38 Exocet missiles and trials with a refurbished torpedo from a submarine, reports the Buenos Aires media.

• Tuesday, December 15th 2015 - 06:03 UTC

  Controversy over Argentine navy recently incorporated Russian sloops

  

  Argentina's Defense minister Julio Martínez has only been in office a few days but he already has a huge challenge on his desk: the four Russian sloops recently arrived in Buenos Aires and which according to the previous administration of Cristina Fernandez cost ten million dollars and are very appropriate for naval patrolling.

• Monday, December 7th 2015 - 06:45 UTC

  Russian sloops with Falklands/Malvinas names incorporated to Argentine Navy

  

  Four Russian built sloops with polar capacity were delivered in Buenos Aires this weekend and incorporated to the Argentine Navy, all of them with names related to the Falklands/Malvinas Islands. The vessels were formally received during a ceremony headed by Defense minister Agustín Rossi and the navy chief Admiral Gastón Fernando Erice.

• Tuesday, February 10th 2015 - 05:56 UTC

  Argentina declassifies documents on disappearance of Swedish teenager in 1977

  

  Argentina's foreign ministry is releasing 'secret documents' related to the kidnapping and disappearance of the Swedish teenager Dagmar Hagelin in 1977 during the last military dictatorship, and which at the time crated a longstanding serious diplomatic rift between the two countries.