A question to what they know:
Why frigates produced after the fall of the Soviet Union (Talwar) are based on the modernization of project 1135 and non of the most new project 11540?
Thanks

Argentine Mirage IIIEA and Daguer did not had RWR.
In a very controversial decision, MIIIEA was incorporated as interceptors without much of the electronic original (lack of vision and perhaps money)

Check this book:

Dagger_and_Finger_en_Argentina_1978_-_2004._Avialatina.
Serie Fuerza Aerea Argentina 7 – Mirage IIICJ & IIIEA

The only figures I have are for the Air Force.

According to Jane’s, six C-130H have survived from a batch of seven. Five are to be upgraded with glass cockpits, FLIR, a ground proximity management system and GPS, under a FAdeA contract worth a reported $166 million.

You seem to be right about the L-100-30 Hercules – one is in AF service.

There are also two KC-130H delivered in 1979.

Only the air force has Hercules in Argentina.

in theory:

1 C130E upgrated to H
5 C130H
2 C130B
2 KC130H
1 L-100

not everyone is in good condition. 🙁

somebody knows what is the MTBO of M53?

The same question for the M88

My cousin there told me some bizarre stories. There are money in Argentine but the government is deliberately forcing the starving of the armed forces. Food producers must pay a special exportation tax whose revenues are channelized to give gifts to unskilled undereducated people. This in turn create a big inflow of undereducated unskilled people form Andes countries to regions formerly populated by whites, thus creating ethnical tensions. That’s seems really weird.
And some politicians claim that is good to terminate with the Army. So, to buy new fighters is the last priority.

political exaggerations.

To be realistic, according to what the actual Argentine government is spending on military, we should be discussing if the Nieuport Bleriot XI is better than the Caudron G.IV. Maybe it could be possible to adapt AIM-9L and LGB to them.
The true is that by now the Argentine Air Force is analyzing some options, but they don’t have budget. For the budget sent to the congress for 2012, there are no plans to buy any combat aircraft, they only talk about buying spares for the A-4ARs. I don’t think something is going to happen on this topic until 2016, when possibly and hopefully, a new government can arrive.
Nobody knows what is going to happen with the Grupo 6 de Caza, as their Mirages are ending their career, with only a handfull of them flying, and no replacement is expected in the short term.

Best regards

Santiago

A statement pessimistic but not far from the reality of our country. Anyway I think that “something” can be purchased in a couple of years.But will not be modern, new, Chinese or Russian.

Su-30M2 is from KnAAPO

more info
http://www.aex.ru/news/2011/7/18/86704/
http://www.aviaport.ru/digest/2011/07/18/218733.html

It is likely single crystal or maybe even CMC. Single crystal blades are nothing new.

Not in the west, but which Soviet/Russian engine use that technology?

Al-31FP is from Saturn and UMPO, not Salut

http://www.npo-saturn.ru/?sat=54
http://salut.ru/Section.php?SectionId=18

some sourse about AL-31fm2 and 117S,I hope that it is reliable
http://www.leteckemotory.cz/motory/al-31/index.php?en
http://www.leteckemotory.cz/motory/al-41/index.php?en

I think that Al-31FM2 is the Salut equivalent of 117S