Category: South and Central America

After the Rafale and the Caesar, Naval Group's Scorpene could be the export star of 2023

When it comes to exporting French defense equipment, it is common to refer to certain privileged areas, such as combat aircraft with the immense success of the family of Mirage fighter aircraft, Alouette, Dauphin and Super Puma, or even armored vehicles like the AMX-13 or the VAB. In recent years, these have been the Rafale fighter from Dassault Aviation, today the most exported European fighter of its generation, and the CAESAR gun from Nexter, which has become one of the pillars of European defense and which demonstrates its great effectiveness in Ukraine, which made the headlines in terms of…

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Colombia announces the failure of the Rafale contract... and the order of CAESAR guns for $101 million

Update: Bis Repetita. Only a few hours after announcing the order of CAESAR from Nexter, the Colombian authorities backtracked, to confirm the order of 18 ATMOS systems from the Israeli Elbit instead. According to Bogota, Nexter had refused to waive the 12% increase in its prices vis-à-vis the initial quotation, while Elbit agreed to waive this increase. Like the Rafale, the CAESAR came out on top in the evaluations carried out by the Colombian armies. Obviously, the announcement made by the Colombian president two weeks ago regarding an upcoming order for 16 Rafale aircraft by…

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The Colombian Rafale order could take place before the end of 2022

Less than a week ago, we listed in an article the potential future Rafale contracts for the year 2023. Of the 6 countries mentioned, Colombia was then the one with the shortest probable deadlines, while airlines of the country had announced that the French aircraft best met their needs in the face of the American F-16V and the Swedish JAS-39 Gripen E/F, and that the Colombian authorities were to announce the selection of the winner of this competition during the month of January 2023. Since then, things seem to have taken off in Bogota. Just a few hours after this article was published,…

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Are “light” fighters destined to disappear?

It is now official, the Rafale has the preference of the Colombian authorities to replace its armed fighter fleet today with Israeli Kfir fighters. Although it is not, strictly speaking, an order for 16 new aircraft, Colombia is now in exclusive negotiations with Dassault Aviation and the French authorities to give substance to it, after having publicly estimated that the Rafale was "the best option for the country in terms of price, efficiency and operability", while being 30% cheaper to use than the Kfir currently in service. With this likely success, the Rafale would exceed the number of aircraft exported for the Mirage 2000 with…

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What are the export opportunities for the Rafale for 2023?

With 284 aircraft ordered for export since 2015 for 7 countries, the Rafale combat aircraft, long decried including at the highest level of the State, is now considered a huge success for Dassault Aviation, coming to flirt with the export success of the Mirage 2000 and its 286 aircraft exported to 8 countries. If the orders placed over the past two years by Egypt (30 aircraft), Greece (24 aircraft including 12 offset second-hand aircraft), Croatia (12 offset second-hand aircraft), Indonesia (42 aircraft) and above all the United Arab Emirates with 80 aircraft for a record contract of €13,5 billion, ensured the sustainability and activity…

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Argentina abandons plans to acquire new fighter jets

At the start of the Falklands War, the Argentine air and naval forces fielded 240 aircraft, including more than a hundred modern Mirage IIIE, Dagger, Skyhawk and Super Etendard fighters, making it one of the most powerful fighter fleets in America. from South. Although 35 fighters were lost during the conflict, the slow decline of the Argentine air force since the end of the conflict had many causes, including the end of the military ambitions of Buenos Aires with the overthrow of the dictatorship of General Leopoldo Galtieri following the defeat the Falklands, the repeated economic crises that have hit the country since, as well as the severe embargo...

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Iraq, Serbia, Colombia: The Rafale still on the offensive on export markets

2021 will have been, without a doubt, the year of the Rafale, with 188 aircraft ordered for export by Greece (18+6 units), Croatia (12 aircraft), Egypt (30 aircraft), the UAE (80 aircraft) and Indonesia (42 aircraft), in addition to the 96 Rafale previously ordered by Egypt (24 aircraft), Qatar (24+12 aircraft) and India (36 aircraft) . In doing so, the flagship of Dassault Aviation and of the entire French aeronautical industry, is approaching the export scores of its predecessor, the Mirage 2000 with 284 aircraft ordered by 7 countries, against 298 aircraft ordered by 8 countries for the 2000. However, the French aircraft manufacturer does not intend to stop…

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After Belgium, Colombia is preparing to order the CAESAR mounted cannon from French Nexter

Since entering service in 2008, the Canon Equipped with a Nexter Artillery System, or CAESAR, has met with significant operational and commercial success. Successfully employed by French gunners in Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon and Mali, and by its international users in Cambodia (Thailand) and Yemen (Saudi Arabia), the French system has demonstrated excellent operational qualities, combining high mobility at high reach (up to 40 km with ERFB shells, more than 50 km with added propulsion shells), as well as high accuracy even with unguided shells. These qualities were put to good use by the French artillery…

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Colombia becomes a "major ally" of the United States

The war in Ukraine has generated a certain radicalization at the level of international relations, in Europe of course, but also on the whole planet. In this context, President Maduro's Venezuela did not fail to play an important card, by displaying unfailing support for Moscow from the outset of the conflict, and by systematically voting against the texts targeting the Russian Federation at the United Nations. . For Caracas, it is a question of securing the good graces of the Kremlin, whose military support and in terms of arms exports are essential to maintaining the regime in place. If the rapprochement with Moscow and Beijing dates from…

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Argentina is interested in the Israeli Kfir and the Sino-Pakistani JF-17 to modernize its air forces

Prior to the Falklands War, in 1983, the Argentine Air Force fielded nearly a hundred modern Dassault Mirage IIIEA, IAI Dagger (unlicensed copy of the Mirage V) and A-4B/C/P Skyhawk fighters, while the naval air forces had about twenty A-4Q Skyhawk aircraft and 6 Dassault Super-Etendards, making it one of the most powerful and best equipped air forces in South America. If the Falklands War heavily dented these numbers, with the loss of 22 Skyhawks, 11 Daggers and 2 Mirage IIIs, it was mainly Western sanctions and the consequences of repeated economic crises...

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