They are equipped with two 30mm cannons, bombs, four launchers with 18 rockets each, plus six missiles.Once in Argentina the five aircraft will be taken to the navy's air wing workshop Comandante Espora, Bahía Blanca to prepare them to fly and train pilots, which will also take several months. The Super Étendard first flew in October 1974 and entered French service in June 1978. Argentina will be receiving in a few weeks time five refurbished Dassault-Breguet Super Etendard (SEM) fighter bombers decommissioned from the French navy. The 13 million Euro purchase also includes a flight simulator, engines and spares and are currently sailing across the Atlantic en route to Bahía Blanca.However the dispatch is at least six months late. It was a French gift to save the honor of Argentina's dilapidated armed forces equipment deficit, but each leader brought its own security system, while the Argentine and French bureaucracies sorted out the packaging and shipment.The refurbished Super Etendard are an advanced version of the Argentine navy fighter bombers that played a distinguished role during the 1982 Falklands' conflict, but purchased in the late seventies, those surviving ended decommissioned. Argentina will be receiving in a few weeks time five refurbished Dassault-Breguet Super Etendard (SEM) fighter bombers decommissioned from the … Argentina purchased at that time 14 SPs and some of them arrived after the Falklands' conflict. Did the sale not go through?The refurbished Super Etendard are an advanced version of the Argentine navy fighter bombers that played a distinguished role during the Falklands' conflict“The five Super Etendard refurbished were loaded this week in France and are in route to Argentina”, reported earlier this week the Argentine ministry of defense The refurbished aircraft and fully covered for protection can be seek at the hold of the vessel that is transporting them to Bahia Blanca Apr 20th, 2019 - 02:42 pm Apr 20th, 2019 - 10:13 pm Apr 21st, 2019 - 10:43 am The aircraft is an advanced development of the Étendard IVM, which it replaced. The modernized used unit is in anticipation of the three ocean patrol vessels ordered by Argentina from France's Naval Group, and which construction has only started.Glad to see that the Argentine finally got some modern planes now that the purchase of Messerschmidt Me109 and Spitfire Mk II failed.I thought they were buying Fokker-Wulfs. Both the wings and The main new weapon of the Super Étendard was the French anti-shipping missile, the In the 1990s, significant modifications and upgrades were made to the type, including an updated UAT-90 computer and a new Thomson-CSF Anemone radar which provided nearly double the range of the previous Agave radar.The Super Étendard could also deploy tactical nuclear weapons;A first attempt to attack the British fleet was made on 2 May 1982, but this was abandoned due to in-flight-refuelling problems.On May 30 two Super Étendards, one carrying Argentinas last remaining Exocet, escorted by four Following the end of the conflict, by 1984 Argentina had received all the 14 Super Étendards ordered, and Exocets with which to arm them.In 2009, an agreement was signed between Argentina and France to upgrade Argentina's remaining fleet of Super Étendards.In 2017 five Super Étendard Modernisé were purchased from France to bolster the fleet at a cost of €12.5 million, along with a simulator, eight spare engines, and a large batch of spares and tooling.Deliveries of the Super Étendard to the French Navy started in 1978, with the first squadron, In total, three operational squadrons and a training unit were equipped with the Super Étendard.The first fighting operational missions took place in From 1991, the original pure attack Étendard IVMs were withdrawn from French service;In March 2011, Étendards were deployed as a part of Task Force 473, during France's A total of five Super Étendards were loaned to Iraq in 1983 while the country was waiting for deliveries of Agave-equipped Iraq typically deployed the Super Étendards in pairs, escorted by Mirage F1 fighters from bases in Southern Iraq; once inside the mission zone, the Super Étendards would search for targets using their onboard radar and engage suspected tankers at long range without visual identification.Koven, Ronald. French Super Étendards have served in several conflicts such as the Kosovo war, the war in Afghanistan and the military intervention in Libya. The Super Etendard were supposed to be ready to fly and air patrol for last December's G20 summit in Buenos Aires which convened world leaders, president Donald Trump, president Xi, Russia's Putin, PM Theresa May, France's Emmanuel Macron among others.


"France: Shiites Planned More Strikes." Argentina's use of the Super Étendard and the The Super Étendard is a development of the earlier There were several proposed aircraft to replace the Jaguar M, including the The first of three prototypes to be built, an Étendard IVM which had been modified with the new engine and some of the new avionics,In the first year of production, 15 Super Étendards were produced for the French Navy, allowing the formation of the first squadron in 1979. The Dassault-Breguet Super Étendard is a French carrier-borne strike fighter aircraft designed by Dassault-Breguet for service with the French Navy. Navy sources advanced they are hoping to recover with the coming spares some of the decommissioned aircraft.France has been quite generous with Argentina, not only have they supplied the five Super Etendard, but also an ocean patrol vessel, to be employed in helping combat illegal fishing in the South Atlantic.