Brazil will deliver four submarines to the Argentine Navy

Governments of Mauricio Macri and Jair Bolsonaro On Thursday, June 7, they signed a memorandum of understanding on defense that provides for possibility to transfer four IKL submarines from the Brazilian Navy to the Argentine Navy. In the statement of intent, both governments committed to "deepen the binational cooperation in the field of conventional submarines, including the possibility of repair, maintenance and construction, as well as the Study of the possibilities of transfer of IKL submarines from the Brazilian Navy to the Argentine Navy ".

This would involve the delivery by Brazil of 2 IKL submarines before the end of the year and two more in the future. "This is a very important first step in deepening defense cooperation," Brazilian Defense Minister Fernando Azevedo said Thursday. The official also said that Argentina had the opportunity to buy military aircraft made in Brazil, including the KC 390.

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"The KC 390 has several components made in Argentina, who knows that Argentina can buy our aircraft," he said at the end of a seminar with companies from both countries, according to the website. O Globo. According to the text, the two governments will seek to "work in a combined approach of common borders, by sharing information", and will encourage exchanges between academic institutions and military training centers in complementary strategic research in order to to develop a binational position on cyber defense global common spaces and peace missions ".

The Argentine Navy maintains aa heavy load in the history of submarines, after the disappearance and discovery of ARA San Juan, with 44 crew members on board. The boat left Ushuaia on November 15, 2017 to go to Mar del Plata. Barely 48 hours later, he reported a defect: it was his last communication with the continent. He was found in November 2018. His research lasted 368 hours and the government has in fact severely criticized the critics.

In May of this year, the Minister of Defense of the Nation, Oscar Aguad, said that part of the findings of the investigation into the tragedy involved "lack of training" and "capacity renewal, among others, as the most likely causes of collapse". The official said at that time that "the armed forces have spent long periods without training or training".

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In this context, the two countries are committed to "deepen research and studies related to the development and exchange of technologies applied to the field of defense in the field of weapons systems for the navy, the army and the air force of each country ", as well as" to study the possibilities of cooperation combined for the surveillance and control of the South Atlantic and to deepen the binational cooperation in the field of the sub -marine ships.

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