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Could the IA-58 Pucará be classified as the last Torpedo Bomber, at least developmental wise, of the 20th Century? For those of you who are not familiar with it, AX-04 was a prototype of the IA 58 Pucará, modified during the Falklands War as part of a joint Air Force/Navy project hoping to...

Sometime in the 1980s, CITEFA began development on an eventual replacement for the Roland I surface to air missile which was the Argentine Army's main SAM system. The resulting Halcon (Hawk) was similar in shape to the Roland missile, but somewhat longer. According to Jane's, it had a 7-km...

I know that I am getting old and confused but can someone explain to me how the HMS Ark Royal and a few RAF ground attack Harriers are supposed to be able to recover the Falklands if the Argentinians take Mount Pleasant airbase? I realise that senior Admirals know much more about this sort of...

On page 58 (page 69 of the PDF) of '"Fabrica Militar de Aviones, historias y testimonios", see here :- http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,211.msg86741.html#msg86741 there's a picture of a very Sherman like tank. As the picture caption is in spanish, another language that I...

Hi, the FMA or DINFIA I.A.52 was twin turboprop engined utility transport aircraft project,it had a high wing and powered by two 564 hp Turbomeca Astazou 2s. http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1963/1963%20-%202114.html

Air International October 1983 Argentina defined requirements for a dual-role combat aircraft for the 90s. SAIA 90 (Sistema de Armas Integrado Argentino de la decada del 90), to be built in Argentina, for air/air and air/ground roles. Using (Dornier) technology acquired in IA-63 Pampa. License...

Hi folks I've reading about a number of non-built projects during the end of the 40's, the 50's and even the 60's, as IA-39 designed by Kurt Tank, IA-47, IA-48 a delta wing fighter, two projects called Pallavicino 1 and 2 for sure based on the Gloster Meteor, and others without number like the...