Between May 28 and June 1, aircraft of the Argentine Air Force were deployed in the city of Río Gallegos to continue training their pilots in Exercise Soberanía (Sovereignty) 2022. The drills were performed by Pampa III aircraft from the VI Brigade of Tandil (Province of Buenos Aires) and A4-AR units from the V Brigade of Reynolds (Province of San Luis).
For this operation, the Argentine Air Force mobilized personnel from both brigades, using C-130 Hercules and the recently incorporated Boeing 737-700 (T-99).
The arrival of the aircraft began on Saturday afternoon, being the first to arrive the A-4AR from Reynolds, after a stopover in the city of Comodoro Rivadavia. Then the Hercules and the Boeing 737 arrived with the transfer of technical personnel and the rest of the crews to provide support. The Pampa aircraft arrived in Río Gallegos on May 29 in the afternoon.
The exercises consisted of dogfight practices over the Patagonian skies and simulation of an attack on the Air Base radar while it was defended by artillery pieces. In addition, the pilots flew navigation sorties to Rio Grande on the implementation of the RPA-170M radar at Cabo Domingo.
The city witnessed these practices and Aviacionline was able to record for the first time these maneuvers, living in first person the characteristic south wind and its intense cold, which in this particular year allows to remember exactly how the missions to Malvinas were experienced 40 years ago.
The visit of the Falcons of the V Brigade always includes the traditional simulation of the attack on the Marjory Glen, in Punta Loyola. This vessel is a testimony and historical monument of those days prior to the conflict over the Malvinas Islands, since the Argentine pilots carried out their bombing practices in preparation for the missions they would later carry out.
This chronicle seeks to transmit in images and in a few days more in video on our YouTube channel this deployment in the south of our country and invite you to remember, 40 years after the Malvinas Islands War, the bravery and heroism of the pilots and all the personnel involved in that conflict for their actions not to be forgotten and to keep in mind their legacy for the generations of aviators who continue to be trained day by day.
