Miragedriver
Brigadier
The future of the Air Force, still a matter full of uncertainties
By Brig. Gen. (R) VGM Ruben MONTENEGRO, FAA
(Translated by Google)
In the Options Bulletin for the year 2013, in the article titled "THE NEED FOR RECREATING A FUTURE CALLER", a situation characterized by "a budget insufficient enough to significantly reduce flight activity, a practically non-existent combat aviation, With the scarce possible activity oriented towards tasks that were always considered subsidiaries, a discouraging budget future and a professional horizon, both for the young and for the veterans, in a frank dissolution, among other adverse factors, can only cause serious disturbances ".
Nonetheless, the address of the then recently assumed Chief of Staff General Brigadier Major Mario Miguel Callejo, during the anniversary ceremony of the Institution in that year, was encouraging, including results in progress such as others to materialize, many of them Pending policy decisions. However, the essential thing was in its allusions to the meaning and the exaltation to the senses of belonging and permanence and to the necessity of protagonism of the members of the institution. In this regard, it was stressed in the article in question that "the task of rekindling such issues, which acquire a transcendent character in the current scenario, must be accompanied irrevocably by the achievement of concrete results that allow the members of the Force to feel Participants of a new stage. That feeling is the one that will pave the way to recover not only the sense of belonging and permanence but, certainly, its commitment to the Institution. "
Two years later, the 2015 Options Bulletin incorporated another article; "A FUTURE CONVOCANTE, A MATTER STILL POSTERGED", in concrete allusion to the fact that the complex situation that harassed the Force in 2013 was not only maintained but also, in some particular areas, had worsened.
It was emphasized at that moment that "The present state of things continues to constitute an extraordinary challenge for the Superior Conduct in order to try to trace the Institution, in this case again with the expectations that generate the perspective of changes of political authorities and the possibility of To find in them answers that allow, at least reasonably, to take actions tending to recover logical levels of operational capacity and, with that, to recreate the professional perspectives of the personnel ". "What is essential in this instance will be for the political level to admit that attempting a serious recovery will be an extremely significant challenge, over time, sustained institutionally and politically, and encompassing the integrity of the Force, given the widespread deterioration in almost All its spheres ".
It would be redundant to point out, but not necessary to omit, that until the end of that year, nothing had changed as to the plight of the Institution despite the innumerable announcements of renewal of aerial material that never materialized except for the hurried Incorporation of the Grob 120 TP aircraft (year 2013) due to the abrupt deprogramming of the veterans T 34 Mentor (culminated thus an institutional operative race that lasted 54 years).
Innumerable rumors, "failed" procedures and pending "studies and analysis" in MINDEF, on the other hand, were a common currency in terms of the modernization and / or procurement of replacement aerial material from the old Force fleet. This was the way in which, for example, "possible" incorporations of airplanes of different origin and antiquity for the replacement of the MIRAGE own, finally deprogrammed in November of 2015, disappeared.
Without pretending to follow a chronological order or concentrating on details, the "modernization and re-motorization" of PUCARA aircraft, the declamation of 40 Pampas planes, the extinction of the IA 73 project (an estimated replacement of the MENTOR now replacing Imagined IA 74), the "endless" task of materializing concretely the version of PAMPA III, among many questions related to the intentions of recovering degraded operational capacities in the field of training as well as of training. Tasks mostly assumed by FAA with notable incompetence and disconnection with the needs of the Force.
In view of the deprogramming of the last Fokker F 27 Friendship in service (November 2016) as the not very distant deactivation of the material Fokker F28 Fellowship due to its age-old life (40 years of service) and the highly burdensome that results its current maintenance we find , Practically, a pair of programs of modernization in development. The one of five Hercules C 130 whose first airplane, TC 69, has been completed in the United States of North America being foreseen to complete the rest in FAdeA
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By Brig. Gen. (R) VGM Ruben MONTENEGRO, FAA
(Translated by Google)
In the Options Bulletin for the year 2013, in the article titled "THE NEED FOR RECREATING A FUTURE CALLER", a situation characterized by "a budget insufficient enough to significantly reduce flight activity, a practically non-existent combat aviation, With the scarce possible activity oriented towards tasks that were always considered subsidiaries, a discouraging budget future and a professional horizon, both for the young and for the veterans, in a frank dissolution, among other adverse factors, can only cause serious disturbances ".
Nonetheless, the address of the then recently assumed Chief of Staff General Brigadier Major Mario Miguel Callejo, during the anniversary ceremony of the Institution in that year, was encouraging, including results in progress such as others to materialize, many of them Pending policy decisions. However, the essential thing was in its allusions to the meaning and the exaltation to the senses of belonging and permanence and to the necessity of protagonism of the members of the institution. In this regard, it was stressed in the article in question that "the task of rekindling such issues, which acquire a transcendent character in the current scenario, must be accompanied irrevocably by the achievement of concrete results that allow the members of the Force to feel Participants of a new stage. That feeling is the one that will pave the way to recover not only the sense of belonging and permanence but, certainly, its commitment to the Institution. "
Two years later, the 2015 Options Bulletin incorporated another article; "A FUTURE CONVOCANTE, A MATTER STILL POSTERGED", in concrete allusion to the fact that the complex situation that harassed the Force in 2013 was not only maintained but also, in some particular areas, had worsened.
It was emphasized at that moment that "The present state of things continues to constitute an extraordinary challenge for the Superior Conduct in order to try to trace the Institution, in this case again with the expectations that generate the perspective of changes of political authorities and the possibility of To find in them answers that allow, at least reasonably, to take actions tending to recover logical levels of operational capacity and, with that, to recreate the professional perspectives of the personnel ". "What is essential in this instance will be for the political level to admit that attempting a serious recovery will be an extremely significant challenge, over time, sustained institutionally and politically, and encompassing the integrity of the Force, given the widespread deterioration in almost All its spheres ".
It would be redundant to point out, but not necessary to omit, that until the end of that year, nothing had changed as to the plight of the Institution despite the innumerable announcements of renewal of aerial material that never materialized except for the hurried Incorporation of the Grob 120 TP aircraft (year 2013) due to the abrupt deprogramming of the veterans T 34 Mentor (culminated thus an institutional operative race that lasted 54 years).
Innumerable rumors, "failed" procedures and pending "studies and analysis" in MINDEF, on the other hand, were a common currency in terms of the modernization and / or procurement of replacement aerial material from the old Force fleet. This was the way in which, for example, "possible" incorporations of airplanes of different origin and antiquity for the replacement of the MIRAGE own, finally deprogrammed in November of 2015, disappeared.
Without pretending to follow a chronological order or concentrating on details, the "modernization and re-motorization" of PUCARA aircraft, the declamation of 40 Pampas planes, the extinction of the IA 73 project (an estimated replacement of the MENTOR now replacing Imagined IA 74), the "endless" task of materializing concretely the version of PAMPA III, among many questions related to the intentions of recovering degraded operational capacities in the field of training as well as of training. Tasks mostly assumed by FAA with notable incompetence and disconnection with the needs of the Force.
In view of the deprogramming of the last Fokker F 27 Friendship in service (November 2016) as the not very distant deactivation of the material Fokker F28 Fellowship due to its age-old life (40 years of service) and the highly burdensome that results its current maintenance we find , Practically, a pair of programs of modernization in development. The one of five Hercules C 130 whose first airplane, TC 69, has been completed in the United States of North America being foreseen to complete the rest in FAdeA
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