Tag: French Navy

• Thursday, August 4th 2022 - 20:56 UTC

  Brazil's decommissioned carrier leaves Rio to be scrapped

  

  Brazil's Navy Thursday bid farewell to the Sao Paulo aircraft carrier, which has been decommissioned and sold for scrap. Türkiye is the structure's final destination.

• Tuesday, February 4th 2020 - 07:17 UTC

  Argentina receives first OPV of four purchased from France

  

  On Wednesday the latest incorporation to the Argentine navy will be docking in Buenos Aires, the OPV ARA Bouchard. The Ocean Patrol Vessel is the first of four to be delivered by the Naval Group shipyard, purchased from France by Argentina, and which left Toulon two weeks ago.

• Saturday, April 20th 2019 - 07:58 UTC

  Five French refurbished Super Etendard fighter bombers en route to Argentina

  

  Argentina will be receiving in a few weeks time five refurbished Dassault-Breguet Super Etendard (SEM) fighter bombers decommissioned from the French navy. The 13 million Euro purchase also includes a flight simulator, engines and spares and are currently sailing across the Atlantic en route to Bahía Blanca.

• Friday, April 29th 2011 - 05:10 UTC

  French Navy state of the art space tracking floating lab calls in Montevideo

  

  A French navy vessel equipped with state of the art systems for tracking missile launchings and other space objects called in Montevideo as part of its tour of the South Atlantic.

• Friday, May 7th 2010 - 03:33 UTC

  French Navy Locates Black Box from Air France that Plunged into the Atlantic

  

  The French navy has located the black box flight recorders from the Air France (EPA:AF) jet which plunged into the Atlantic killing 228 people last summer. However, officials said there was still no guarantee the recorders—that could explain the cause of the crash—would ever be brought to the surface.