Pampa III, the plane that Argentina will give to Bolivia and to which she will try to sell more units – 22/04/2019

The Argentinian and Bolivian Presidents, Mauricio Macri and Evo Morales, met Monday at El Palomar Airport to tour the facilities with a step-by-step objective: that the Bolivian leader sees in person one of the Pampa III planes that FAdeA has delivered to the Air Force recently.

It is the plane that Argentina will deliver to the neighboring country under a new type of agreement on gas signed in February this year. But at the same time, FAdeA (the Argentine aircraft factory "Brigadier San Martín" S.A.) seeks to sell to Bolivia at least two or three others of these ships, which serve for military training but also for border surveillance in the face of the threat of smuggling and drug trafficking.

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The history of this exchange and sale offer began to materialize in February when Energy Secretary Gustavo Lopetegui signed an amendment to the gas supply agreement in force with Bolivia until 2026, which establishes a different price and contract quantity system, with a greater seasonality of deliveries for the 2019-2020 period. The government says the country will save $ 460 million in two years.

This agreement also involves the delivery of a Pampa III aircraft manufactured by FAdeA in case of exceeding the contract of 45 million cubic meters during the 5 months of high demand (May to September).

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This Monday in Palomar, they were for Argentina, with Macri, the ministers Oscar Aguad (Defense) and Jorge Faurie (Chancellor), Lopetegui; the president of Fadea Antonio Beltramone and the ambbadador of Argentina to La Paz Normando Alvarez García.

The IA-63 Pampa III call is an aircraft of the latest technology and international projection, say in FAdeA. In the process of reconverting its work, which included more negotiations and work with the private sector to reverse its accumulated deficit over the past decade, FAdeA had delivered 3 Pampa III aircraft to the Air Force.

Ten years had pbaded without it providing new planes. While continuing the production of three other new aircraft that would be delivered this year also to the Argentinian air force.

This was possible since in July 2018, FAdeA had received the approval document for the new version of the Pampa III aircraft, certifying the completion of the certification process of the aircraft. ;aircraft. It should be noted that this version has increased the incorporation of national components from 2% to 12% at present.

These planes can sell between $ 12 and $ 15 millionthey say in FAdeA, which also targets India and Nigeria as a destination.

The aircraft, fully built in the province of Córdoba, where FAdeA sits and ending with a decade without production of this plant, these are advanced basic training units and lightweight. They reach a maximum altitude of 13,000 meters and a speed of 870 kilometers at the hour.

Designed in the early eighties, this new model has been modernized and equipped with advanced technologies, especially in the badpit, where all the controls are digital, from the registration of fuel to the planning of the mission.

The vehicle is equipped with a new low-consumption dual flow engine, an EVA (Embedded Virtual Avionics) virtual training system, a dual tandem glbad badpit and a navigation system / communication / integrated attack.

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Evo Morales arrived Sunday afternoon with an agenda that includes the supply of gas, the medical attention of Argentine and Bolivian citizens on both sides of the border and the political situation in Venezuela, according to official sources.

The leaders Macri and Morales will also badyze the possibility of adding Bolivia to the organization of the 2030 World Cup., which Argentina intends to conduct with Uruguay, Paraguay and Chile.

One of the most notorious differences will be the question posed to the Venezuelan situation, since Morales continues to strongly support the continuity of Nicolás Maduro's regime. In addition, Evo was a supporter of Unasur, which other countries in the region have just withdrawn to form Prosur.

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