A wonderful sight to see from the banks of the Elbe The "Libertad" is the sail training ship of the Argentinian navy. The three-master, rigged as a full-rigged ship, moored at the jetties in Hamburg at midday. The ship will stay until Friday and then leave Hamburg at 10.00 am. There are 292 seamen on board. How...
What British missiles failed to do in the Falklands War, their own navy has now done: the "Alférez Sobral" has been sunk. What the Royal Navy failed to achieve in the Falklands War by firing missiles, artillery hits during an Argentine navy exercise at the end of May have now done: The final sinking of the guard ship "Alférez Sobral". At the beginning of May 1982...
What British missiles failed to do in the Falklands War, their own navy has now done: the "Alférez Sobral" has been sunk. What the Royal Navy failed to achieve in the Falklands War by firing missiles, artillery hits during an Argentine navy exercise at the end of May have now done: The final sinking of the guard ship "Alférez Sobral". At the beginning of May 1982...
On 3 September, the first of the four Norwegian Orion P-3C maritime patrol aircraft finally arrived in South America after being refurbished in the USA. Two weeks later, on 19 September, the maritime patrol aircraft with the new registration 6-P-57 was handed over to the Argentine Navy in Buenos Aires. As there is currently no long-distance reconnaissance...
The Argentinian navy has already been able to significantly expand its maritime surveillance capabilities with the purchase of the four French Adroit OPVs alone. In order to complete this further, Argentina is now purchasing four Lockheed P-3C/Ns that have been decommissioned in Norway for around 60 million euros. The P-3N, which is equipped more for Norwegian SAR tasks, differs from the...
New French-built patrol vessels deployed The Argentine Navy has deployed its two newest offshore patrol vessels (OPVs), ARA Bouchard (P-51) and ARA Piedrabuena (P-52), to monitor an international fishing fleet en route to the South Atlantic near the country's economic zone (EEZ). While there are no confirmed reports...
Icebreaker in Argentina - Almirante Irizar The main burden of the currently possible seasonal voyages to supply the thirteen Antarctic stations in the small but elongated sector of Argentina is borne by the almost 45-year-old supply icebreaker ALMIRANTE IRIZAR. Although a fire in the generator system had destroyed the 15,000 metre ship built by Wärtsilä in...
In Puerto Belgrano, the largest Argentinian naval base about 700 kilometres south of Buenos Aires, shortly before Bahia Blanca, a ship has been "heroically" moored at the pier for ten years, unable to move under its own power: the Heriona is missing a crucial gearbox spare part from England! The four FK destroyers built by Blohm+Voss...
The Argentine Navy has taken delivery of the second Offshore Patrol Vessel built by Naval Group. At the same time, the representative of the Argentine Navy, Captain Victor Ortiz, handed over command of the ARA Piedrabuena to Commander Gaston Vega. In 2018, the two partners signed the contract for the delivery of a total of...
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