Tag: F-16 Fighting Falcon

• Tuesday, February 25th 2025 - 19:38 UTC

  Argentina unveils non-airworthy F-16 for training purposes

  

  The so-called 25th F-16 unit of a batch of 24 second-hand US-built fighter jets purchased from Denmark was unveiled this week at the Tail Argentine Air Force Base. This particular F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft is not airworthy and will only serve training purposes at the Ground Instruction Center, it was explained during the ceremony presided over by Defense Minister Luis Petri, who insisted that this acquisition represented “sovereignty” and “peace.”

• Wednesday, October 30th 2024 - 15:46 UTC

  Falklands coast line surveyed by the Argentine navy during “Operation Cow Beach”

  

  Now that the Argentine president Javier Milei has made public a shopping list to equip the armed forces, such as the US manufactured F16 from Denmark for the Air Force, plus tanks, armored vehicles and modern warfare elements such as drones, rockets for the army, and also some surface vessels for the navy, and possibly Scorpane French/Spanish submarines, such as the navies of Brazil and Chile, it is interesting to recall an incident almost sixty years ago when a sea incursion to the Falkland Islands.

• Friday, August 23rd 2024 - 23:13 UTC

  The Economist: Javier Milei's military splurge; many Argentines are asking why

  

  Self-proclaimed anarcho-capitalists ought to be skeptical of large standing armies. President Javier Milei of Argentina seems to relish them. Even as he tightens the government purse, he has committed to raising defense spending from 0.5% of gdp to 2% over the next eight years. He vows to “restore the prestige” of the army and transform it into a hi-tech force.

• Thursday, March 21st 2024 - 09:07 UTC

  Milei deepens ties with Washington by choosing used F-16 jets

  

  Argentine President Javier Milei announced Wednesday that his country would purchase second-hand US-built F-16 fighter jets from Denmark, which would represent “the biggest advance in Defense in the last 20 years” according to a social media user eventually validated by the head of state.