what blockade? last year dictator castro bought in the states millions of dollars in food….and he paid in cash….US $….All europe trades free with Cuba, but the delays in payment are…..incredible….some spanish companies are making business with the dictator (it´s a shame, at least for decent people) paying salaries of abouth 600$ month…but the state owns 550$ of every worker…..hooooray, it´s blockade fault….sure…

Italians, canadians, french, spaniards even argentineans are making business with dictator Castro (even some colombian “gentlemans”), where´s that blockade?

Spain sold almost all our Pz-IV and Stug III to Syria, about 30 units, when we received our brand new M-47´s, not all were from czechs

I just remember an italian TV series, with a lot of Tornados, F-104, G-91, and the rest of the AMI, but just looong time ago, they even operated Nike Hercules units….

For me one Phalanx isn´t precisely state of the art equipment, neither Barak missiles, that Type 23 are great platforms, but mainly ASW and ASuW, in AAW roles are in bad conditions, very short range with Seawolf missiles.
But i always expected that Chile will get their frigates from their shipyards, getting second hand frigates isn´t the best option for the local industry.

They also need more helos for a seven units fleet, some ex RN Lynxs or something like that

But Chile already bought some second hand frigates from the dutchs ¿ 2 L class and a another couple of M class? And before that they received one Type 22-2

I don´t believe they can get another three more frigates

It´s because the Descubierta is their only real warship, with SSM (MM-38…) and SAM (Aspide), Floreal are just OPV´s with a helo, never seen with SSM, only with the Oto Melaras canibalized from another patrol boats, for sure this isn´t a flame war just the reality. Moroccan navy is like a coast guard for fisheries protection, their efforts against ilegal inmigration are less consistents….for example like the tunisian navy, algerian navy is in better conditions, but with small ships, their patrol boats operates Kh-35 missiles (16 missiles in their “frigates” upgraded in Russia), and their couple of Kilo´s are their best offensive weapon, Lybia needs new ships, their Osa´s are in bad conditions, like the rest of the fleet, and Egypt, is a surprise, in that navy they called destroyers to the couple of Descubiertas we sold them in the 80´s, and all their visits at least to Spain are very interesting, their chinese frigates are really amazing.

Only two Magisters in Katanga? I always believed that they at least received three, maybe four planes. A couple were operational, and the las Magister was destroyed by indian Canberras.