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The Argentine Air Force created the Air Operations Command on December 15, 1966, over the Air Combat Command and the General Anti-Aircraft Defense Command. [1] The military branch sought to grow its operational capacity while rationalizing it. In 1968 the command established its headquarters in the Cóndor Building, Buenos Aires. [2]
The Argentine Air Force (Spanish: Fuerza Aérea Argentina, or simply FAA) is the air force of Argentina and one of three branches of the Armed Forces of the Argentine Republic. In 2018, it had 13,837 military [1] and 6,900 civilian personnel. [2] FAA commander in chief is Brigadier Gustavo Valverde. [3]
603 Commando Company (Spanish: Compañía de Comandos 603) is a one of three commando (special operations capable) units of Argentine Army. The date of formation is unknown, probably recent. 601 Air Assault Regiment (Spanish: Regimiento de Asalto Aéreo 601) is a special operations forces unit of the Argentine Army, created in January 2003. The ...
Argentina was the only South American country to send warships and cargo planes in 1991 to the Gulf War under UN mandate and has remained involved in peacekeeping efforts in multiple locations like UNPROFOR in Croatia/Bosnia, Gulf of Fonseca, UNFICYP in Cyprus (where among Army and Marines troops the Air Force provided the UN Air contingent ...
IAI Dagger, Argentine Air Force, 1984. The Argentine Air Force (Fuerza Aérea Argentina; FAA), which had never fought against an external enemy since its establishment in 1912, had never considered the possibility of waging a long-range naval air campaign against a major NATO power. It was not trained or equipped for such a mission.
The British Task Force had been successfully attacked by these Argentinean aircraft using French Exocet air-to-sea missiles, sinking two ships. This operation was intended to destroy the three remaining Exocet missiles that Argentina had in its possession as well as the Super Étendard launch aircraft.
During the Argentine retreat from the Mount Kent area on 30 May, Sergeant Mario Antonio Cisnero [14] from 602 Commando Company and Sergeant Luis Alberto Kovalski [15] from 601 National Gendarmerie Special Forces Squadron, armed with machine guns, repeatedly fired at low-flying Royal Air Force fighter-bombers conducting strafing runs; the ...
The 4th Airborne Brigade is the only combined forces between air assault infantry and airborne forces unit of the Argentine Army (EA) that specialised in air assault and airborne operations with respond to emergency situations, combat patrols in difficult to access terrain, combined arms, counterinsurgency, CQB/CQC in urban areas, maneuver warfare, and raiding with small unit tactics.