Tag: IA-63 Pampa III

• Wednesday, April 6th 2022 - 20:31 UTC

  Argentina takes IA-63 to Santiago Air Fair in search of buyers

  

  Argentina's Defense Minister Jorge Taiana is to head the country's delegation at the Argentine ward of the International Air and Space Fair (FIDAE) in Santiago, Chile, where he will try to attract potential customers for the IA-63 jet trainer Pampa.

• Saturday, August 13th 2016 - 15:11 UTC

  Argentina could receive a squadron of Mirage F1; Air Force will have no combat aircraft by 2018

  

  Argentina's Air Force will have no combat aircraft by 2018 since by then the three A4-AR Fightinghawk which remain operational will be decommissioned, according to Argentine defense sources. At the end of 2015, the outgoing Cristina Fernandez administration witnessed the definitive decommissioning of the few operational French built Mirage III.

• Monday, November 16th 2015 - 06:36 UTC

  Argentina's Kfir contract questioned by Air Force: they lacked “a weapons' system” and radar

  

  The number three man in the Argentine Air Force refused to sign the purchase of 14 Israeli refurbished Kfir fighter jets, an operation involving 360 million dollars, and which supposedly would have given the depleted service a breath of fresh air.

• Wednesday, November 11th 2015 - 06:47 UTC

  Argentina to purchase Israel fighter jets, according to defense media reports

  

  After almost two years of negotiations and endless speculations surrounding the question of what fighter jet Argentina would go for, Argentine media report that a decision has been made to purchase the IAI Kfir jets to replace the Air Force’s Mirages. According to the report, in Interdefensa Militar Argentina, the decision is currently awaiting final approval from the Cabinet.

• Wednesday, June 19th 2013 - 05:48 UTC

  Argentina bans British made ejection seats from local jet trainer IA-63 Pampa III

  

  Argentine jet trainer manufacturer FAdeA has been banned from installing a British made ejection seat in a new version of the Pampa by the government of President Cristina Fernandez, according to company boss Raul Arganaraz.