And It Flew......

[camberiu]

Argentina's future replacement to its current aging fleet of C-130 Hercules planes. Will they have the money to buy it? I am sure Dilma and Cristina will figure something out.

 

[MartyBA]

Argentina ordered 6 examples, I think you know that already. Also, the tail cone and fairings are being manufactured in www.fadeasa.com.ar. If you think 22 EMB 190 were bought for Austral at roughly 34m each, I don't see the problem in paying 6 of these things at 50m each.

 

[GS_Dirtboy]

Embraer makes nice aircraft. Congrats!

 

[camberiu]

Embraer makes nice aircraft. Congrats!

We can thank Mr. Peron. Without him, there would be no EMBRAER.
Argentina actually makes the rear cargo door, part of the flaps and some components for the lower part of the fuselage.

http://youtu.be/fr2gHws1pao

 

[Bajo_cero2]

This is the kind of things i like aboutthis goverment.

 

[el_expatriado]

You're not going to do anything with 6 of these. Argentina needs to either get serious about modernizing its military and replace all its antiquated hardware or just disband its armed forces all together. Pretending to modernize by buying a few Brazilian planes isn't going to get anywhere.

 

[ajoknoblauch]

You're not going to do anything with 6 of these. Argentina needs to either get serious about modernizing its military and replace all its antiquated hardware or just disband its armed forces all together. Pretending to modernize by buying a few Brazilian planes isn't going to get anywhere.

Disbanding its military makes sense. The country faces no foreign threats. Follow the Costa Rican example.

 

[garryl]

Argentina to get 14 F-10 or China-Pak F-17 crappy planes. Could be an upgrade for Argentina.

http://www.fireinews.com/news-9456414.html

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[thorsten]

But how will Argentina get back the Malvinas without armed forces?!?

 

[camberiu]

Argentina to get 14 F-10 or China-Pak F-17 crappy planes. Could be an upgrade for Argentina.

The F-10 is way to big, complex and expensive to operate for Argentina. The FC-17 however, is a much more likely match. Now that Argentina can overpay the planes with soy, such kind of deal seems more likely. These planes are inexpensive to buy and to operate, so it makes sense. The main challenge is that it will represent a radical change on Argentine military doctrine and logistics. Argentina will have to operate a fleet of Western and Eastern build planes at the same time. Both use completely different set of tools, lubricants, fuels, data protocols, etc... Managing the logistics of both, at the same time, is no small task. India, with a military budget orders of magnitude greater than Argentina's struggles with that same issue quite a bit, as it operates Russian and Western planes at the same time.

It is not hard to imagine Cristina making the political decision of buying these planes and they end up sitting on the ground most of the time due to the Argentine Air Force being unable to fund to parallel sets of logistics to keep the planes flying.