Argentine navy future

Sandhi Yudha

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Remarkable post.


|"announces that the signing of the first submarine ...."|
- First submarine to be overhauled?
- First new second-hand submarine?
- First brandnew submarine?


Even the downsized CA-2000 coastal submarine variant is a bit too much for the limited defence budget of Argentina if they choose for the Scorpène design. But i don't know how affordable the Scorpène 1000 variant is.

There is nothing about this on the Twitterpages of DCNS/NG or Howaldswerke-Deutsche Werft/TKMS, so we will see what's true about this story.
 
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Sandhi Yudha

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The Argentine government has finalized negotiations to buy four surplus P-3 Orion maritime patrol aircraft from the Royal Norwegian Air Force.

The agreement was reached on 31 August in Buenos Aires during a meeting between Defence Minister Jorge Taiana and representatives of the Norwegian Defence Materiel Agency.

With the acquisition of these 4 P-3Cs, the surviving S-2T Trackers can be at last retired.

If im not wrong Argentina also has a small amount of P-3Bs, but these are maybe grounded and not operationable.

 

Sandhi Yudha

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The Argentina Defence Ministry has signed a letter of intention for the procurement of eight Agusta-Westland AW109M lightweight helicopters. The AW109Ms are planned to be used by the Argentine Navy in a seagoing role aboard the French-built Gowind/Bouchard-class offshore patrol vessels, acquired between 2019 and 2022.


I expect that all the helicopters will be built in Italy, without involvement of Westland.
 
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