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was retired, it was decided to keep an embarked air group
with the hope of operating a carrier again in the future.[1]
In order to qualify the pilots, the traditional friendship
with the Brazilian Navy has meant that Argentine naval
aviators have continued to operate from the deck of the
Brazilian aircraft carriers Minas Gerais and São Paulo dur-
ing ARAEX exercises.[2][3] video The only other choice
available was with the United States. As the United States
Navy does not maintain regular deployments of aircraft
carriers in the South Atlantic it is necessary to wait for
one of them to perform a transit within Argentine coastal
waters. The opportunities occur when the ships perform
Super Etendard on USS Ronald Reagan a transit around South America to move between the East
and West coasts of the United States since they cannot fit
Gringo-Gaucho are a set of maneuvers performed be- through the Panama Canal. The exercise is coordinated
tween the Argentine Naval Aviation and United States by US Naval Forces Southern Command and unlike with
Navy’s aircraft carriers. The US Navy refers to them as the Sao Paulo the Argentine aircraft perform Touch-and-
Southern Seas in their last edition. go landings only and do not fully embark on the carriers.
History Aircraft
• Dassault-Breguet Super Étendard ( 2da Escuadrilla
Aeronaval de Caza y Ataque )
• Grumman/IAI S-2T Turbo Tracker ( Naval
Antisubmarine Squadron )
• Alouette III and Eurocopter Fennec ( 2nd Naval
Helicopter Squadron ) as SAR aircraft
• Sikorsky/Agusta S-61 Sea King ( 1st Naval Helicopter
Squadron ) for general support duties
List of operations
S-2T Turbo Tracker approaching USS Carl Vinson
• 1990, March: USS Constellation on transit for her
Service Life Extension Program (SLEP)
• 1990, October: USS Abraham Lincoln
• 1991, November: USS Kitty Hawk, including port visit
to Mar del Plata [4]
• 1993: USS Constellation on the way back to the Pacific
Ocean after SLEP
• 2001: USS Nimitz. Cancelled due budget restrictions
per Argentine economic crisis
• 2004: USS Ronald Reagan[5]video
• 2008:USS George Washington[6] [7]
• 2010: USS Carl Vinsonvideo
Touch-and-go on USS Ronald Reagan Gallery
• Super Etendard approaching USS Abraham Lincoln
The Argentine Navy continuously operated an aircraft • Trackers overflying the USS Carl Vinson
carrier from 1959 to 1990. When ARA Veinticinco de Mayo
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• Gringo-Gaucho 2010
• Alouette III acting as SAR helo on USS Ronald Reagan
See also
• South America air forces maneuvers
References
[1] 1998 Se vendió el portaaviones
[2] La Argentina y Brasil, en operativo naval conjunto
[3] Maniobras combinadas con Brasil
[4] Frente a Mar del Plata fondeará hoy el portaaviones
Kitty Hawk ... entre los días 10 a 16 de noviembre de 1991,
período en el que el portaaviones de la marina de los
Estados Unidos Kitty Hawk y aviones de la Fuerza
• Super Etendard on USS Ronald Reagan Aeronaval 2, con asiento en la base Comandante Espora
• Landing signal officer on USS Carl Vinson de Bahía Blanca, desarrollaron tareas conjuntas
• H-3 Sea King on USS Ronald Reagan [5] Ejercicio con los EE.UU.
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[6] Un portaaviones de los EE.UU., con la Armada • Carl Vinson Unites with Argentina for Southern Seas
[7] Un portaaviones nuclear llega a la Argentina 2010
• OPERATIVO GRINGO GAUCHO II • Argentina-United States in joint exercise
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