After the maiden voyage six F-16 fighter jets last weekend over the sky of the city of Buenos Aires former Defense Minister Luis Petrispoke about the purchase of these aircraft and responded to the criticism received. “Now they’ve all become fighter jet sommeliers.”said the former official.
Petri referred to this procedure as the “most important military purchase of the last forty years” des Armed Forces”. “It is a technological leap of at least thirty years We achieve effective deterrence, not partisan favoritism“, he said of the questions that arose over the weekend.
In fact, the first government official to respond to the criticism was Foreign Minister Pablo Quirno, who responded to comments made on his social networks by Héctor Rogelio Torres, a diplomat with extensive experience. “Denmark replaces F-16 x F-35. We buy them and feel patriotic feelings. Sad“Torres wrote on the platform. With this in mind, Quirno claimed: “Even if you are passive, you should: act according to your position, not use it to describe yourself or renounce it.”
In view of this, Petri said: “The truth is that I don’t care about the criticism of Kirchnerism because they demonized the powers.” they distracted herthey defunded them, and what did they buy?” Regarding the next steps, the Commissioning is scheduled for January 2026, with phased delivery scheduled to be completed in 2028.
For the current national MP of Advances in freedom from Mendozathis step means “We have control and surveillance of our airspace“, since the country “had deprogrammed its Mirage (fighter aircraft) in 2015″. “We didn’t have supersonic aircraft, considering we are the eighth largest country in the world,” he explained.
“Do you know what I’m left with? What’s left are the active and retired officers and non-commissioned officers of the air force“Their tears flowed with excitement,” Petri recalled of the opening ceremony that took place on Saturday. “I am left with the statements of the veterans of the Malvinas War, the pilots A4C as Ernesto Ureta,” one of the pilots who attacked the aircraft carrier HMS Invincible in an operation by the A-4C Skyhawk attack aircraft on May 30, 1982. “He was one of those who flew with him Gerardo Isaacit was against the Invincible and two pilots lost their lives,” the former minister added.
Likewise, he pointed out that those who question defense investments today did not make relevant purchases for military modernization during their respective administrations. In this context he ironically said: “Now they’ve all become fighter jet sommeliers.”. It’s unbelievable what happens to them.
He recalled that although purchasing this style had been considered before, these efforts had also been unsuccessful. “They were just about to buy airplanes Chinese JF-17. “They didn’t do it,” he said. On the other hand, the elected representative, who will take office this Wednesday, emphasized: “The President has expressed himself very clearly, and when it comes to supporting them, it is not only through concrete reminders, not only through hugs, not only through symbolism, but also by equipping them.” Army strikersthat the first four have just arrived and four will arrive before the end of the year” to deploy them on the border “to defend the Argentines.”
He made it clear that there were no offensive intentions, but that the priority was to protect the national maritime space. “We won’t raid anything. That’s why P-3 OrionThat’s why they came to control and monitor ours Fish resources. That’s why they beat them so that they go with the army to Jujuy, to Misiones and to Salta,” he said.
Regarding the investment, Petri assured that the acquired aircraft guarantee operations for the next 25 years and highlighted the presence of these aircraft in different countries. “The JF-17 were produced one hundred and forty-five in the world. The F-16 More than four thousand five hundred were made. Three thousand six hundred fly. Do you know who has eight hundred? Nothing more and nothing less than the most important military power in the world: USA. More than 26 countries use F-16s. A discussion is not possible. “They’re modernized.”
“The age of an aircraft is not measured in years, but in modernization, avionics and remaining flight hours,” he analyzed. And he concluded: “The truth is that Kirchnerism explains why he didn’t buy anything at all.” “They had a huge ideological bias against the armed forces.”
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