For a stop of the SOMU, can not land the plane Super Etendard bought in France – 05/09/2019

A strike of the SOMU, the Guild of the Marines, delays the entry to the port of Bahía Blanca of the ship that brings the five Super Étendard aircraft bought in France in about $ 15 million. Aircraft mooring and landing operations, spare parts and radars planned for this Thursday, arrived on the morning of Friday, announced at Clarin Port sources. The transfer of the equipment to its last seat, Commander Espora's naval airbase, would take place in a week and would last three days.

As planned since mid-April from the port of Radicatel, in the Le Havre region of eastern France, the vessel flying the Liberian flag Lily Auerbach arrived at the Bahia estuary on Wednesday around 18h.

Anchored while waiting for the authorization of the local port authority to enter the multipurpose site 21, the maneuver is scheduled for 6 o'clock this Thursday. However, at this station, the cargo Arica Express is still tied, which will lead containers to Brazil and whose departure was postponed because of the 24-hour strike by the Union of Unified Maritime Workers (SOMU). The force measurement affects the work of the tugs, the maritime units that must accompany the entry of the ships on the wharves.

Once Arica leaves the site on the 21st, in the early hours of Friday, the Lily Auerbach will be able to get in at dawn, moor it and start unloading the 2,500 tons that it has. has on board. includes the five Dbadault Super Etendard Modernize aircraft (SEM) similar, albeit with a more modern technology, to which the navy incorporated in the early 80s and had an exceptional participation in the Falklands war.

With them, the spare parts travel and a simulator to train and qualify the pilots of Air Force 2 (FA2) that they will operate Its incorporation was scheduled for October of last year and the arms custody would be entrusted to him at the summit of the leaders of the G-20, but a delay in the payment to France delayed the operation .

From the Navy Operations Command Training and Enlistment, they informed Clarin that the transfer operation of aircraft to Espora base, headquarters of FA2, would begin next Wednesday 15. It would take 3 days of work to planes to reach the sheds located about ten kilometers from the port. In this place, the last plane of the same type that had the force were housed. In principle, the presence of the Minister of Defense, Oscar Aguad, was announced next Monday to accommodate the ships. However, the ceremony has been postponed and will be held on a date closer to the finish and close to Arnada Day on May 17th.