“SUE & SEM”: Jorge Núñez Padín revisits four decades of Super Etendard in Argentine Navy service
In a striking numeric coincidence, Serie Aeronaval 40th edition celebrates 40 years of Dassault Super Etendard operations with the Argentine Navy. We gained access to and advanced Australis’ manuscript and propose an “early bird” preview of Jorge Núñez Padin’s latest monograph.
Gaceta’s 2018 calendar pays tribute to Argentine airmen fighting the Malvinas War
The 2012 Argentine Exercises Index
The first new edition of the ARGEX series once again covers close to 50 exercises, simulations and drills totalling more than 200 days of field activity for the year ending 31 December 2012.
The 2004 Argentine Exercises Index
In one more Argentine military aviation exercises index, we disclose an updated version of our original Aeromilitaria Argentina index for year 2004. This more complete alternative reviews nearly 50 exercises, simulations and drills totalling at least 240 days of activity on the field. Another “international” year, 2004 was packed full of combined exercises, including exceptional events such as two different UNITAS phases, a Gringo Gaucho carrier qualification tour onboard USS Ronald Reagan and a (now) rare Argentine-British maritime search and rescue cooperation exercise.
The 2005 Argentine Exercises Index
The second Argentine military aviation exercises index in the “Gaceta Aeronáutica Age” is actually an updated version of our original Aeromilitaria Argentina index for 2005. This more complete variant reviews more than 35 exercises, simulations and drills totalling more than 220 days of activity on the field. An apparently “international” year, 2005 is full of combined exercises where Argentine armed forces tested their combat fitness with foreign forces in “trade-mark” exercises such as Plata, Panamax, Fraterno, UNITAS and Viekaren; as well as the one-off Ceibo 2005. Homeland training was also fairly active, with services deploying throughout the nation for both internal and joint manoeuvres.
The 2010 Argentine Exercises Index
The first Argentine military aviation exercises index in the “Gaceta Aeronáutica Age” comes packed with over 70 exercises, simulations and drills totalling at least 329 days of activity on the field. In spite of ever present budgetary limitations and a couple of congressional mishaps, Argentine armed and paramilitary forces managed to complete an interesting menu of exercises throughout 2010, including named classics such as Valkyria III and Ícaro III (Air Force specific), Rio III and Tanque (Argentine/Uruguayan) as well as Gringo Gaucho/Southern Seas, UNITAS LI, Fraterno XXVIII, Panamax and Atlasur VIII (naval air cooperation manoeuvres, in a variety of flavours).