Argentine air forces in the Falklands War

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This is a list of the units, aircraft and casualties of the Argentine air forces in the Falklands War. The numbers in bold are the number of aircraft used in the war, the numbers in brackets are the number of lost aircraft. For a list of air forces from United Kingdom, see British air forces in the Falklands War.

Contents 1 Units 1.1 Argentine Air Force 1.2 Argentine Navy 1.3 Argentine Army 1.4 Argentine Coast Guard 1.5 Argentine traffic planes 1.6 Armament 2 Casualties and aircraft losses 3 External links

[edit] Units

Caution:There is a dispute regarding the total number of Argentine aircraft really deployed.

[edit] Argentine Air Force

Fuerza Aérea Argentina

• 1st Air Brigade - Lockheed KC/C-130 Hercules, Boeing 707, Fokker F-28 and Fokker F-27 9 (1), 1, 6, 12
• 2nd Air Brigade - English Electric B.Mk62 Canberra 8 (2)
• 3rd Air Brigade - FMA IA 58 Pucará 24 (13)
• 4th Air Brigade - McDonnell Douglas A-4C Skyhawk 15 (9)
• 5th Air Brigade - McDonnell Douglas A-4B Skyhawk 24 (10)
• 6th Air Brigade - Israel Aircraft Industries Dagger 20 (11)
• 7th Air Brigade - Boeing CH-47C Chinook and Bell 212 2, 2
• 8th Air Brigade - Dassault Mirage IIIEA 17 (2)
• Grupo Aérofotográfico - Learjet 35A-L (1)

[edit] Argentine Navy

Comando de Aviación Naval Argentina

• 1st Naval Air Attack Squadron - Aermacchi MB.339A 6 (2)
• 2nd Naval Air Fighter/Attack Squadron - Dassault Super Étendard 4
• 3rd Naval Air Fighter/Attack Squadron - McDonnell Douglas A-4Q Skyhawk 8 (3)
• Naval Air Antisubmarine Squadron - Grumman S-2E Tracker 6
• Naval Air Training Squadron - Beechcraft T-34 Mentor 4 (4)
• Naval Air Exploration Squadron - Lockheed SP-2H Neptune 2
• 1st Naval Air Helicopter Squadron - Aérospatiale Alouette AI03, Sea Lynx 10 (1), 2 (1)
• 2nd Naval Air Helicopter Squadron - Sikorsky SH-3 Sea King 5
• Naval Air Transport Squadrons - Lockheed L-188 Electra and Fokker F-28 3, 3

[edit] Argentine Army

Comando de Aviación del Ejército Argentino

• 601 Army Aviation Battalion - Boeing CH-47C Chinook, Agusta A109, Bell UH-1H Iroquois and Aérospatiale Puma SA330L 2 (1), 3 (1), 9, 5 (5).
  • South Georgia April 3rd - Aérospatiale Puma SA330L 1 (1)

[edit] Argentine Coast Guard

Prefectura Naval Argentina

• Aviation Service - Aérospatiale Puma SA330L and Short Skyvan 1, 2 (2)

[edit] Argentine traffic planes

• Escuadrón Fénix — 30 civilian business planes:

Gates Learjet, Cessna Citation, Hawker Siddeley HS-125, Commander 690 and Mitsubishi MU-2.

• Aerolineas Argentinas: Boeing 737^[1] (airlift to Port Stanley).

[edit] Armament

• 7.62 mm FM M2-20
• 20 mm Colt Mk.12 Cannon
• 20 mm Hispano-Suiza HS.804 Cannon
• Aérospatiale AM.39 Exocet (Air-to-Surface) Anti-Ship Missile
• General Purpose Bomb
• Napalm

[edit] Casualties and aircraft losses

• Human losses:
  • 6 Army aviation
  • 4 Naval aviation
  • 41^[2] Argentine Air Force aviators (including 6 crew members of the C-130H shot down June 1st and 6 crew members of the Learjet LR-35A shot down June 7th)
    • and 14 Ground crew

• Aircraft Lost in the Air: _{no suffix: Air Force}
  • 8 McDonnell Douglas A-4B Skyhawk
  • 9 McDonnell Douglas A-4C Skyhawk
  • 3 McDonnell Douglas A-4Q Skyhawk Navy
  • 1 Lockheed C-130E Hercules
  • 2 English Electric B.Mk62 Canberra
  • 1 Learjet 35A
  • 2 Dassault Mirage IIIEA
  • 11 Israel Aircraft Industries Dagger A
  • 1 Aermacchi MB.339A Navy
  • 3 FMA IA 58 Pucará
  • 3+1 Aérospatiale Puma SA330L Army (1 at South Georgia April 3rd)
• Destroyed on the ground
  • 9 FMA IA 58 Pucará
  • 1 Agusta A109 Army
  • 1 Boeing Ch-47C Chinook Army
  • 2 Aérospatiale Puma SA330L Army
  • 4 Beechcraft T-34 Mentor Navy
  • 2 Skyvan 3-M Coast Guard
• Captured after the war
  • 11 FMA IA 58 Pucará
  • 2 Agusta A109 Army
  • 9 Bell UH-1H Iroquois Army
  • 1 Boeing CH-47C Chinook Army
  • 1 Aérospatiale Puma SA330L Coast Guard
  • 3 Aermacchi MB.339A Navy
  • 2 Bell 212
• Lost with ARA General Belgrano
  • 1 Aérospatiale Alouette AI03 Navy
• Flying accident in the war zone
  • 1 Westland Lynx HAS.Mk.23 Navy
  • 1 FMA IA 58 Pucará
  • 1 Aermacchi MB.339A Navy
  • 2 McDonnell Douglas A-4B Skyhawk

[edit] External links

• British site about Argentine Aircraft lost
• Britains Small Wars.com:
• Argentine Air Force (FAA) official site about the Malvinas/Falkland Air War

1. ^ http://www.malvinasmdp.org.ar/Images/Fotos/M085.jpg
2. ^ http://www.fuerzaaerea.mil.ar/conflicto/caidos.html

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