Colombia pauses negotiations again on Kfir fleet replacement
Funding problems and an expired government directive mean the Colombian Air Force will have to find ways to keep its ageing IAI Kfir fleet in service for longer.
Colombia’s Minister of Defence Iván Velásquez announced on 2 January that negotiations to replace the Colombian Air Force’s (FAC's) fleet of IAI Kfir C10/12 multirole combat aircraft have stalled. As a result, the FAC will have to continue flying its ageing warplanes for the foreseeable future.
Velásquez explained to Caracol Radio that negotiations with aircraft manufacturers Dassault and Saab, offering the Rafale and Gripen respectively, did not move forward. A governmental directive (known locally as CONPES 4078) approved by the previous Duque administration expired on 31 December.
Funding problems and an expired government directive mean the Colombian Air Force will have to find ways to keep its ageing IAI Kfir fleet in service for longer.
After 25 years, the women return to provide the military service, they are part of the first female contingent of our School of Logistics and the Support Battalion of Services for Military Education of the National Army of Colombia.
Now they will put a bad DISGUISED as a Drill Instructor to yell at them and annoy them, go out to speak ill of the Military Forces and throw the initiative overboard.
On the other hand, we are experts in copying the traditions of other Military Forces BAD or "fixing along the way" the initiatives that are taken locally, such as women's military service.
I hope that this idea will prosper and continue, not that it will become the club of "hunting and fishing" husbands, boyfriends and lovers.
She is Lieutenant Cacua, a Military Woman who, from the Medium Armored Cavalry Group of the First Division, contributes with her abilities to the service of the people of La Guajira.
She is the first Military Woman of the Artillery weapon, it has not been easy at all, but it is all a matter of attitude. Lieutenant Maria Paula Osorio Medina, Colombian National Army
Midshipman Maryan Alexa Pino Osorio, from the Almirante Padilla Naval Cadet School, was appointed to be part of the training cruise No. 95 of the Spanish Navy Training Ship 'Juan Sebastián Elcano' for her outstanding performance, until June 20 .
Loyalty, courage and sacrifice are the principles that characterize the LANCEROS of Colombia. The students of courses 493 and 494 will demonstrate during their formation and rigorous training, why they are deserving carriers of the spear
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