NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦Argentina's President Javier Milei has approved a plan to send five Dassault Super-Étendard combat aircraft to Ukraine. This decision involves negotiating with France, the US, and NATO to bypass the British embargo preventing the use of these aircraft due to the Falklands War. The plan includes a potential swap with France, exchanging the Super Etendards for military equipment like drones or helicopters, with France handling the necessary upgrades to the aircraft.
lukashuth@noelreports
I'm not sure how useful 40 year old planes are to Ukraine.
I'm not sure how useful 40 year old planes are to Ukraine.
Sampo Haarlaa@chowderman @lukashuth @noelreports
They reported that there wont be that many Mirages coming after all. Perhaps they change things if France still have their 70-odd planes in storage from 2016.
I suppose these could operate in ground-attack roles...?
Chowderman 🍴@rocarion @lukashuth @noelreports
Mirage or Super-Étendard ?
Who knows, maybe they could fire some Exocets at what remains of Russia’s Black Sea fleet still some distance above the seabed?
This has the smell of something dreamt up by politicians rather than military men.
@chowderman @lukashuth @noelreports
Super-entads. I mean, if option is handful of Mirages or dozens of SE:s, then it might be worth it.
Naturally focusing on F-16:s now and building future possibility for Gripen is probably something which would be smartest move...
Reed Mideke@chowderman @rocarion @lukashuth @noelreports According to wikipedia, air-launch Exocet range is only like 70 km, seems getting that close to anywhere the BSF is still operating would be extremely dicey. I agree about the smell…