Argentina abandoned the Dragon, whether to buy Israeli military aircraft?

The export of the Dragon fighter has always been a topic of great interest to military experts at home and abroad. As one of the few countries in Asia that has an independent and complete military industry system, Pakistan's Dragon fighter has become a shining card of advanced military aircraft in the third world.

But just recently, the export of the Dragon fighter has appeared a huge change, what is going on?

In recent times, Argentina plans to spend $684 million to buy foreign military aircraft, of which roughly $20 million to buy a variety of equipment, and the rest of the funds to buy military aircraft.

But so much money to buy advanced military aircraft is inappropriate, if the purchase of Rafael fighter jets, then Argentina can only buy up to five Rafael. This is simply a drop in the bucket for Argentina.

Moreover, Argentina is currently facing the obstruction of the British purchase of aircraft. Argentina wants to buy JASON fighter jets and FAFF fighter jets, but this piece of Argentina's purchase plan has been strongly blocked by the British side. Britain has not wanted Argentina to get advanced military aircraft to surpass the British army in air power, which makes Argentina's advanced military aircraft import plan delayed. Argentina intends to import one of the F16 and Dragon military aircraft, its core purpose is that the United States Argentina Argentina to export military aircraft, and the United Kingdom does not dare to obstruct the big her. If there is no direct conflict of interest between the OAF and the UK, the UK is unlikely to obstruct the OAF. As the evaluation of the Baron fighter is no less than the F16, the cost performance is better than the F16, the Argentine Air Force within the purchase of the Baron's voice is increasingly high. Some Argentine military and political officials even ranked the Dragon fighter as the strongest military aircraft.

According to Argentina's planning, the more than 600 million dollars on hand to buy the Dragon is no problem. Argentina can buy more than 20 Lords, the formation of a fighter regiment is enough. However, at this time, Argentina has the idea of giving up the Dragon and importing military aircraft from Israel. This idea is really strange, to say the least, because Israel and it seems that South America does not have any relationship. Israel has not even finished dealing with the Middle East but still can reach out to South America.

It is true that Israel and the South American countries do not have many political dealings and just keep normal country relations interactions. However, Israel and South American countries have a long history of the arms trade. The Israeli Air Force has exported the Cub fighter jets to South American countries in imitation of the French Mirage 5 domestic production. The Cub has been exported to Colombia, Bolivia, and other countries, and the evaluation is still quite good. In this case, the export of Israeli military aircraft to South America has a very strong potential market, the same South American countries of Argentina buying Israeli military aircraft is also a natural association of things.

The Israeli may be willing to export lion cubs to Argentina, which will not be opposed by the British authorities. And Argentina introduced the lion cubs, there can also be the following reasons -

First, to maintain logistical unity.

The logistics of the Argentine air force have always been a Western combat system. During the Isle of Man war, Argentina's Super Flag fighters and Mirage 3 fighters were French military aircraft, and the Flying Fish missiles were French. This system would be relatively unified.

The prototype of the Cub was the French Mirage 5 fighter, which formed a natural logistical interface with the original French military aircraft equipped by Argentina. Now the Argentine Air Force, the Super Flag, and Mirage 3 have all been retired, but the maintenance of military aircraft logistics systems has been "Franchised" for many years. If the introduction of the Dragon, the Dragon is difficult to adapt to the Argentine Air Force French logistics system, but the Cub fighter is really in the logistics of this piece of no problem.

Second, to maintain the traditional friendship with Israel, and seek more Western countries to support Argentina.

Israel belongs to a Western country with very good relations with the United States, this country has been pursuing a relatively special diplomatic line. In the Middle East, Israel has been fighting with Arab countries for decades. Israel has sided with the United States in the Middle East, suppressing Syria and Iran.

Yet, Israel wants to expand its influence in South America, the U.S. backyard. As Israel's military-industrial strength grows, Israel hopes to export its arms to South America in exchange for friendly relations between South American countries and Israel.

Argentina's influence within Israel is increasing, with soccer and economic ties between the two countries. Because of Israel's technological advancement, Argentina has seen a large number of its people migrate to Israel. The friendship between the two people is deepening.

On the crucial issue of the Isle of Man, Israel has adopted an attitude of apparent neutrality and even support for the United Kingdom and the United States, but in fact, supports Argentina.

Why? Israel seems to be going against the United States on this issue in South America, and the United States does not want anyone to get their hands on its South American backyard. But Israel, which itself wants to expand its influence, prefers to fight its way into South America. The U.S. took a series of measures to force the suspension of Israeli military aircraft production, thus allowing Israel to buy F15 and F16, then Israel took measures to achieve the successful export of military aircraft when its air force could not be equipped with a large number of home-made military aircraft.

Israel can export the Cub to Argentina, and also count Argentina and Israel two countries with a higher level of relations. And it is the friendship between Argentina and Israel that makes Israel take a relatively sympathetic attitude toward Argentina. And the United States in the export of Israeli military aircraft to Argentina on this matter also turned a blind eye. After all, the current United States is not able to intervene too much in South America.

The company's main goal is to provide the best possible support to the Argentinean government, which is the same as the support of more European countries. The current UK is also a Western country, but the UK's exit from the EU has messed up the geopolitical landscape of the whole of Western Europe. France, Germany, and other countries have a lot of complaints against the UK. Now that Argentina has successfully united with Israel, the next step is for Argentina to successfully unite more European countries, such as Belgium, Italy, and then more influential France and Germany, relying on these European countries and Israel together to gradually isolate the UK. And the Baron's maiden family, the OAF, instead of such international influence as Israel.