Defense industry of Argentina

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I.Ae. 24 Calquin aircraft production, 1950

The Argentine

Second World War and they received a boost during the 1970s after the United States imposed an arms embargo due to human rights violations
. The politics of privatization carried out during the 1990s virtually eliminated domestic military production, but many factories were reopened during the last years.

Army

TAM tank
Ñandú jeep

In 1945, the

Pampero
Multiple Launcher System in the past.

The 1990s, as with the rest of the national economy, saw a great reduction of state sponsored military programs; so the Army bought all kind of things such as the

Combat Engineers Battalion 601 (Spanish: Batallon de Ingenieros 601) has also designed and built several models of water purification plants which had been deployed as humanitarian aid
to Bolivia, Peru, Haiti and Chile in recent years.

In the 2000s, the Army developed the

Patagón based on the SK-105 Kürassier chassis with a refurbished AMX-13
turret.

Navy

Piedra Buena (P-36). Azopardo class frigate
Espora-class corvette

In 1930, the shipyard,

ARA Santisima Trinidad
under license.

In the 1970s

Espora class corvettes
have been built at Rio Santiago.

A program to build four

TR-1700 class submarines in Buenos Aires was cancelled by the Carlos Menem administration in the 1990s when the Domecq Garcia shipyard was shut down having two hulls about half completed. With this specialized facility closed the Navy was forced to send the ARA Santa Cruz submarine to Brazil for her mid life upgrade. In 2003 the shipyard was reopened and the ARA San Juan completed her overhaul therevideo. In 2010, the government also announced that it started working with the indigenous reactor INVAP's CAREM in order to transform one of the pending TR-1700 into a nuclear submarine and/or a surface vessel.[1]

Navy's arsenals at

Puerto Belgrano perform maintenance of the fleet ships, for example the Rolls-Royce Tyne turbines engines.[2]

In March 2010, it was announced that the construction of the first of four 1,800 ton

Nilda Garre announced that the Navy would continue working on a system that would enable the launch of Exocet missiles from the Navy’s P3 Orion airplanes.[citation needed] In addition, the financing of the local development and construction of a coastal Naval defense system that may also be based on the use of Exocet missiles similar to the Excalibur system.[citation needed
]

Air Force

Pulqui II

In 1927, the

C-130 Hercules
.

From 1983, the FMA developed and type-approved a series of systems and weapons to be built locally known as the FAS series including

cluster bombs
etc.

In late 1980s, Quimar S.A. built the MQ-2 Bigua, a derivative of the

Meteor Mirach 100[4] remote piloted vehicle, which was tested from an IA-58 Pucara and in the 1990s the Argentine Air Force unveiled the Nostromo Yarará (Nostromo Defensa) and the 2000s AeroDreams Strix (AeroDreams
) UAV.

Rockets, missiles and astronautics

See also:
Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales

Since the 1950s, the

Tronador II
to be used for satellite launching.

Matra Magic
air-to-air missiles.

The state-owned company INVAP is also noted by its satellite series (although launched by NASA) and in 2007 started to build indigenous 2D and 3D radars.

Electronics and Software

INVAP inkan radar

The three armed forces have their respective units within their organizations in charge of designing, developing and produced the software required. Examples in the Army included artillery control facilities and the SIMUPAZ a simulator used to train

A-4AR
aircraft. The Navy uses its own systems for data links between their ships.

synthetic aperture radar to replace the Bendix RDR-1500B on the maritime patrol aircraft Beechcraft Super King Air of the Argentine Naval Aviation[11]

Atomic energy

Main article: National Atomic Energy Commission
See also: Argentina and weapons of mass destruction

Argentina has an advanced

non-proliferation.[13] In 1992, Argentina and Brazil created the Brazilian–Argentine Agency for Accounting and Control of Nuclear Materials
for the bilateral verification of the peaceful use of nuclear materials.

See also

See also: Category:Defense companies of Argentina

References

  1. ^ Promete Garré que se construirá un submarino nuclear en el país (in Spanish)
  2. ^ "Revisão de turbinas das fragatas brasileiras na Argentina?". Archived from the original on 2012-03-09. Retrieved 2010-08-26.
  3. ^ mindef: El comienzo en agosto próximo en los Astilleros Tandanor (en Buenos Aires) de la construcción primera de las cuatro Patrulleras Oceánicas Multipropósito, cuya ingeniería básica fue adquirida a la industria chilena. Archived 2010-03-07 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ISBN 9780275945190
    .
  5. ^ "Argentina successfully tests locally designed and manufactured missile booster". MercoPress. Retrieved 2017-12-18.
  6. ^ Jota Castro (2009-12-26), LANZAMIENTO COHETE GRADICOM PCX-2009, archived from the original on 2012-06-29, retrieved 2017-12-18
  7. ^ Lanzamiento del cohete “Gradicom PCX-2009
  8. ^ "Defense & Security Intelligence & Analysis: IHS Jane's | IHS". www.janes.com. Retrieved 2017-12-18.
  9. ^ Clarin.com. "Probaron desde un buque el lanzamiento del misil "Aspide"" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2017-12-18.
  10. ^ "Industria Nacional Investigación y Desarrollo". industriamilitarargentina.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2017-12-18.
  11. ^ "Novo radar argentino em aeronave naval". Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2010-07-17.
  12. ^ Argentina Archived 2007-02-03 at the Wayback Machine Non-Proliferation
  13. ^ Hillary Clinton:the leadership that your country has demonstrated when it comes to nuclear proliferation

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