Video: Here's how the five airplanes bought by the Ministry of Defense came from France

With nearly six months late, their use being planned for the G-20 summit last November, they left France.
the five fighter planes used "Super Etendard".

Argentina has bought the modernized aircraft of the French Navy for 12.6 million euros ($ 15.1 million), published by the government almost a year ago in the Official Journal .

The agreement of the operation between the two countries "is established as one of the forms of cooperation that the parties will adopt, the acquisition of equipment, systems or technologies of defense and logistic support, their maintenance and their corresponding training ".

In November 2017, the French ambbadador, Pierre Henri Guignard, had indicated in an interview that it was "a little symbolic, because these are not new devices, but will allow Argentina to continue to use Super Etendard and be able to dispose of them that are operational. "

In a video uploaded on their social networks, the Ministry of Defense showed the planes before they were shipped to the country. "The five modernized Super Etendard aircraft boarded in France are headed to Argentina aboard merchant ship Lily Auerbach, and thousands of parts will arrive as well as the simulator for the training and qualification of our pilots."

Argentina used the Super Etendard aircraft in 1982 during the Falkland Islands War against the United Kingdom.

How are the planes

Specifically, the country will receive the five devices (serial numbers 1, 31, 41, 44 and 51), ten Atar 8K50 reactors, spare parts, a flight simulator and several test benches. Each SEM has another hundred hours of flight.

According to sources from the French Ministry of Defense in a note published by LA NACION a year ago, the five aircraft reach a standard level of five.

Commissioned in 2006, this standard allows pilots to provide new features, such as the use of night vision binoculars (JVNs), the integration of Raytheon E-Paveway pumps, the installation of an autopilot digital, the SATURN radio and the evolution of the navigation system and attack.

The new French SEM should replace the 14 Super Etendards bought by the country in 1979, which are now out of service due to lack of spare parts, maintenance and crew training.

Designed by Dbadault Aviation for the French Navy and commissioned in 1978, the last Super Etendard was put out of service on July 12, 2016 at Landivisau Air Force Base.

In the opinion of Pierre Servent, a French military expert who spoke with LA NACION, "these planes, which have been flying for 38 years, have demonstrated their enormous capabilities, fully integrated to the point of departure. 2016 to the operations of the airborne group deployed in the Persian Gulf ".