As he said, the piece is on the Janes homepage at the moment
: Argentina interested in F-5s as a stop-gap fighter | IHS Jane's 360
F-5 is an interesting choice, two Malaysian F-5 engines went missing and were believe to have ended up in Argentina.
Thanks for that. It did not come up in my Mr googling so I am happy to stand corrected. Still the Poms won't be impressed and the problem of paying for the aircraft has to be met.As he said, the piece is on the Janes homepage at the moment
Not necessarily a silly choice given Brazil uses them, and has experience upgrading them to much more modern standards including targeting pods and BVR missiles.
Do you mean the T-38 trainer version? Or are you talking about the F-5's in US service for DACT purposes? AFAIK the US only used F-5's in a combat role during Vietnam. After Vietnam, US F-5's served in various training roles.
Source has kindly been posted by another member.
Most probably, the UK seems to have been fairly successful in seeing off numerous expeditions for fighters.
Funding is more of a question of political will, the previous administration did not care for the military hence no funding to keep things going. It would appear, however, that the new administration sees things differently.
The ones used for DACT. While not a front line asset, doesn't mean that the US wants to give them away. Given the inability to get fighters from the Russians, the Chinese, the Israelis, the french etc I would find it surprising if they were lifted out of US service and gifted to a user who never operated F-5's.
I would agree which - to me - is at least more constructive than the majority of the last lot in office.
I thought decades of neglect has caused Argentina's aviation industry to lose the ability to make IA-63 Pampa? There was a promised revitalization several years ago in which the government is supposed to inject millions of dollars into FMA as part of a new order of Pampa, but then there is no follow-up. No actual injection of cash. No actual production of Pampa.
FAdeA's first serial production IA-63 Pampa III takes flight | IHS Jane's 360
Doesn't seem to be as much of a thing anymore, a while ago they signed a letter of intent for 24 Gripen to be co-produced by the 2 countries or words to that effect, all surrounded with the fluffy words of geopolitics.
Sweden requires the agreement of the UK even for JAS39C/D, because of British-made parts which it would not be practical to replace. That is very unlikely to be given. It would require a commitment by the Argentinean government which is probably politically impossible.
That was a joke. A pure political gesture. I doubt very much that Mrs Kirchner had any intention of providing the money to pay for it, & it was obviously impossible for Embraer to fulfil its side of the proposed deal. What use would an aircraft with no radar be? Saab wasn't even asked about the possibility of removing British content, so one can see that it wasn't serious.
It wasn't brought up to reflect an actual capability, I brought it up because Waylander suggested if they bought Super Tucano's from Brazil it would be "against their dignity" and that, as you rightly say is a pure political gesture, it did come along with a backdrop of greater cooperation between the two countries. So the historical rivalry between the two does not exist at the same level as it once does.
Well, things have changed very quickly as relations today have moved fwd toward they stood ~1999
Might you be thinking of the Pucara? That's closer to the Super Tucano than the Pampa (prop rather than jet propulsion).But it is one thing to procure a foreign design together. But procuring a plane from a neighbour while some time ago you were abke build a similar plane by yourself is another level...
Yes, & all that is good. But I don't expect sales of weapons - particularly potentially game-changing weapons - to be allowed any time soon.