Argentina is a country with a history of more than 200 years, officially declared independence as early as July 9, 1816, and achieved a prosperous economy in the early part of the last century, but due to the outbreak of World War I, foreign capital fled in large numbers, and the country's economy fell into chaos. This economic dilemma continued into this century. At the beginning of this century, Argentina's political and economic situation continued to be chaotic, experiencing two debt restructurings in 2005 and 2010, and the country's GDP also continued to decline. In recent years, it has created a negative economic growth situation for three consecutive years (2020 (-9,9%), 2019 (-2%) and 2018 (-2, 6%)), which is why Argentina always rumors that Argentina bought our dragon, and the J-10 finally ended without any trouble, which is really no money.
Geographical location of Argentina
The Argentine Navy, which had not been in a drought for a long time
People often use the long drought to express the joy of the dream waiting for a long time to finally come true, and for the Argentine Navy, it is a long drought that has not met the ganlin. Even more tragically, the Argentine Navy's wave of new ship entry occurred immediately after the end of the Falklands War, with four Brown Admiral-class MEKO 360 H2 frigates in service between 1983 and 1984, and the first four of the six Espola-class MEKO 140 A16 frigates also entering service between 1985 and 1990 (the last two were delayed until July 2001 and May 2004). Two advanced German-made Santa Cruz-class TR1700 conventional submarines also entered service in the mid-1980s. It can be said that since the 1990s, I have not placed orders for medium and large surface/underwater ships.
Admiral Brown class frigate of the Argentine Navy
Argentine Navy Espola-class frigate
The wind is coming
The Argentine Navy has long been able to purchase new patrol ships to ease the patrol pressure on the Drewmond-class A69 frigates and the Espola-class MEKO 140 A16 frigates, but has not been able to do so due to economic tensions. In early 2016, the Argentine Navy began engaging with France in the hope of ordering four wind chasing frigates to enhance its maritime power, and at the 2018 G20 Buenos Aires Summit, Argentina and France introduced four wind chasing patrol ships in the form of a 318 million euro bank loan, including the Lynx Wind Chasing OPV 90 patrol ship, which had served in the French Navy for 6 years, and three new Wind Chasing OPV-87 patrol ships, called the Buchado class patrol ship.
The Buchado-class patrol ship is very sci-fi in the shape design, directly above the helicopter magazine designed a 360-degree panoramic bridge, making the superstructure look simple and compact, the top of the bridge has a conical closed mast cover for the arrangement of radar, the stern take-off and landing deck can take off and land 10-ton helicopters, while the stern adopts an open water design, with two slide compartments, which can accommodate two RHIB dinghies.
| captain | 87 meters |
| Wide port | 13 meters |
| Displacement | Full load displacement 1650 tons, |
In terms of power, the Bucha multi-stage uses economical diesel-diesel joint propulsion power, equipped with two Belgian ABC (Anglo Belgian Corporation) diesel engines, the maximum speed is only 21 knots, but the maximum cruising range is up to 8,000 nautical miles /10 knots, which is very suitable for offshore patrol tasks.
Since it is defined as a patrol ship, the Butchado class is very poorly armed, with a 20 mm automatic weapons station in Nycoster, France, at the bow of the ship, and a 12.7 mm remote control machine gun station and a remote control high-pressure water cannon on the ear bridge behind the bridge on both sides of the bridge. In principle, two quad-mounted Flying Fish anti-ship missiles could be placed behind the main guns of the Buchado class, although the Argentine Navy was not equipped.
In terms of electronic equipment, the Buchado class adopts the Polaris integrated combat management system specially developed by DCNS for small and medium-sized ships, which can integrate the ship's search radar, navigation radar, photoelectric instrument, C-ESM and R-ESM and other situational awareness equipment, with a high degree of automation.
A total of four Bouchado-class patrol ships are in service, the first is the French Navy's HMS Sensitive, the HMS Patrol Ship In 2010, DCNS built a Gowind OPV 90 patrol ship at its own expense without actual contract, providing the French Navy with test verification and foreign orders, the French Navy did not renew the contract until 2018, and then delivered to the Argentine Navy in February 2020, hull number P51. Ship II, hull number P52, was launched on October 1, 2020 and delivered on April 13, 2021. The third ship, hull number P53, and the fourth ship, hull number P54, are both launched in 2021. The service of the four wind-chasing patrol ships will alleviate the embarrassing situation of the Argentine Navy's lack of ships to a certain extent, and also help strengthen Argentina's protection of maritime rights and interests in the jurisdiction.