ok my dear 330, your facts are partially right, allow me please to clarify a few.
1-the Mi-8 and 24 were basically for the parts, but sure mr garcia (as bad as any comon theaf) made quite a few buks out of that, the canberras, sure they didnt pay a lot for them, to me there’s no more use for them in the region, but who knows?
the An-26 were bought in the 70’s and were new, latter in the 80’s it was decided that the An-32 was the better one, so they returned the 26’s back as a down payment for bright spanking new An-32’s (25 total i believe), the latter ones in the 90’s were used (2 or 3) and sure some more SOB’s made a few buks too.
Mi-8’s crashing, that is not news, many had and will keep crashing for whatever reason, as well as blackhawks and pumas and so on…old or new.(see AFM atrition)
the history of the M2000 started with the president before, mr. belaunde, who was another one similar to garcia, only less preposterous, he being hoplessly devoted pro-yank and pro west didnt wanted anything to do with the russians and so he decided in favor of the M2000, about 32 of them, then mr. garcia came and cut the deal short, to 12 machines without weapons, arguing that there will be no need for them, and started cutting in the armed forces like crazy in the meantime filling his pockets with money diverted into other things like making the state grow so much, to the point of “unsustainable”.( now you can laugh…he’s running for president again )
the Mig-29 (9-13) were bought from bielorus, due to the fact that the us decided to bann any weapons sale to the region until things cool down, the cenepa war was in 1995 and by 1998 (when the Migs got there) there was still the serious posibility of an allout war between ecuador and peru and the FAP (peru) didnt have no air superiority whatsoever over ecuador and clashes between the 2 armies were frequent.
the R-77’s came with the NEW Mig-29SE bought directly from russia (x3 a/c, year 2000) in exchange for maintenance and parts for the whole Mig fleet.
(the SE has the N-019M radar) so is capable of launching the R-77, the next goal was to upgrade the other radars (on the bielorus examples) to the same standard or M1, they are in good shape, but you must consider the other security meassures such as…cam and concealment, information and dissinformation as the reasons for such a contradictory reports, NOTE that FAP is doin’ nothing to clarify, they like it as it is.
as for the size of the air arm…you’re right, out of 6 hercs, only flies 1, out of 25 An-32 only flies 1 and so on and on and on, the rest is known by everybody
another reason to choose from bielorus and not ucraine nor russia
1-ucraine- i have these aircraft, take it or leave it
2-bielorus- they are on the flight line, choose whichever you want
3russia- forget it, at the time the us said NO you dont sell to them, and so they complied.
capisci?
i hope this makes things clearer for everybody, one thing is for sure, corruption overthere has reached extraordinary levels, even now, their president mr. toledo has raised his salary to 18000 us dollars a month and 11000 for his wife, he did right after coming to power, people overthere is not happy at all:confused:
bonne chance a tous..
Camaro. 😉
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