{"id":5,"date":"2010-04-02T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gacetaeronautica.com\/gaceta\/wp-102\/2011\/09\/03\/valkyria-iii-gets-exercise-season-in-motion\/"},"modified":"2012-11-29T19:59:24","modified_gmt":"2012-11-29T18:59:24","slug":"valkyria-iii-gets-exercise-season-in-motion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gacetaeronautica.com\/gaceta\/wp-102\/valkyria-iii-gets-exercise-season-in-motion\/","title":{"rendered":"Valkyria III gets 2010 exercise season in motion"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a title=\"Click to enlarge...\" href=\"http:\/\/www.airfighters.com\/photo\/52437\/M\/Argentina-Air-Force\/FMA-IA-58D-Pucar\/A-582\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gacetaeronautica.com\/gaceta\/wp-102\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/ga_a-582.jpg?w=1140\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A-582 was one of four IA-58 Pucar\u00e1 involved in the exercise and was duly marked-up with Valkyria\u2019s logo (photo: Mart\u00edn Kubo).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p align=\"justify\">April, specifically from Tuesday 13 to Wednesday 21, saw Air Force carrying out Argentina\u2019s first large-scale exercise of year 2010. Close to 250 service men and women, incorporating a small Army delegation, gathered in El Plumerillo (Mendoza) for a combat search and rescue (C-SAR) exercise, the third in the Valkyria series initiated two years earlier. Air Force colonel <strong>Gerardo Isaac<\/strong>, a reputed Malvinas War Veteran flying A-4C Skyhawks during the war, was exercise director.  <\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse\" id=\"table2\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th align=\"center\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-6842223591044281\";\n\/* AM - Pie de portada *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"2102090342\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\">Actual flying operations were delayed on 14 and 15 April due to foul weather conditions in the Buenos Aires area, which left combat aircraft deployed to Mendoza without supporting assets required for the exercise. After the deployment and preparation phases, where assets were put in place, procedures were agreed-upon and preliminary practice flights were performed, actual operations started on Monday 19. C-SAR sorties were initially practiced inside IV Air Brigade facilities and later moved to undefined high mountain sectors around the city of Mendoza for added realism and increased unpredictability for participating forces.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gacetaeronautica.com\/gaceta\/wp-102\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/ga_vr-23.jpg?w=1140\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cessna 206 VR-23, and electronic intelligence airborne platform, was first shown in action in Valkyria III (photo: Mart\u00edn Kupat).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p align=\"justify\">Even though a number of IA-58 Pucar\u00e1 and IA-63 Pampa combat aircraft took part in the exercise, the key roles were played by C-SAR helicopters and Air Force special operations forces practicing furtive incursions into purportedly unfriendly territories, securing of safety perimeters, landings-by-rope and quick extraction of downed flying crews. An unexpected emergency occurred on Saturday 17, when one of the Army Hueys hydraulic system failed causing it to auto-rotate and land in a taxy way in El Plumerillo. An innovative to the exercise was the Electronic Warfare Group Cessna 206, whose existence was publicly revealed for the first time during Valkyria III, and ostensibly provided electronic intelligence support.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" bgcolor=\"#C0C0C0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div align=\"center\">Advertising<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div align=center> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-6842223591044281\";\n\/* Link unit for text *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"4669723431\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\ngoogle_ad_height = 15;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script> <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script> <\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\">Participating aircraft included I Air Brigade C-130 Hercules (TC-56) and F.28 Fellowship (TC-55), II Air Brigade F.27 Friendship (TC-75), III Air Brigade IA-58 Pucar\u00e1 (A-575, A-577, A-582, A-585), IV Air Brigade IA-63 Pampa (E-817, E-819, E-821) and SA-315 Lama (H-63), VII Air Brigade Bell 212 (H-81 + 1) and Hughes 369 (PGH-03, H-40 + 1), IX Air Brigade DHC-6 Twin Otter (T-81, T-86) and Saab 340 (T-33), Mor\u00f3n Air Base PA-34 Seneca (PG-322?) and the already mentioned Cessna 206 (VR-23). Army aviation contributed with UH-1H Huey (AE-4&#215;8 + 1) and SA-315 Lama (AE-38x).<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p align=\"justify\">Horacio Clari\u00e1, D. Kopac, Mart\u00edn Kubo, Guillermo Landa and Gustavo Lepez (<a href=\"http:\/\/todalaaviacion.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Toda la Aviaci\u00f3n<\/a>) contributed to this report, which was originally published in Aeromilitaria Argentina. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faa.mil.ar\" target=\"_blank\">Fuerza A\u00e9rea Argentina (official)<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diariouno.com.ar\" target=\"_blank\">Diario Uno<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.losandes.com.ar\" target=\"_blank\">Los Andes<\/a> were also checked.<\/p>\n<hr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Close to 25 aircraft and 250 service men and women from different Air Force and Army units were involved in the first large-scale joint exercise of year 2010. For little more than a week, combat search and rescue operations took place in and around Mendoza\/El Plumerillo airport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[3,26],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence","tag-aeromilitaria-argentina","tag-argex"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gacetaeronautica.com\/gaceta\/wp-102\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/ga_escudo.jpg?fit=571%2C522&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1JKRl-5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4010,"url":"https:\/\/www.gacetaeronautica.com\/gaceta\/wp-102\/cruzex-flight-2013-learning-to-fight-together\/","url_meta":{"origin":5,"position":0},"title":"Cruzex Flight 2013: learning to fight together","author":"Robert Nispeling &amp; Ronald de Roij - Karo Aviation","date":"Friday 21 March 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Between November 4-15 2013, the seventh edition of the Cruzeiro do Sul Exercise (Cruzex) took place in Natal, Brazil over areas known as Rio Grande del Norte and Pernambuco. 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