FMA IA 58 Pucará | A brilliant but unfortunate initiative of the Argentine aviation industry

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[@MrLucasm06]

tendrias que hacer un video sobre la modernización q le están haciendo ahora mismo

[@obesetuna3164]

An interesting overview of the Argentinian Aviation Industry. I am British. During the Falklands War itself, even the RAF stated that the Pucara was extremely effective for what it was intended to be. All the best.

[@gj1234567899999]

It looks great.

[@astircalix4126]

@obesetuna3164 thanks for your insightful comment! I flew in Pucaras after the Malvinas war ended. Many Pucaras were destroyed on the ground by a British commando unit. The result would have been different if those planes had been available during the British landing at San Carlos.

[@obesetuna3164]

@@astircalix4126 Greetings. I can remember on the BBC, when the war was still ongoing, the military had praise for the Pucara. The British are funny like that. Anyway, they thought of it as a worthy aircraft, which I expect it was. Take care.

[@astircalix4126]

​@@obesetuna3164 the Pucara was a simple but lethal COIN attack aircraft. In fact, its guns were two 20mm Hispano Suiza cannons , the same as the Argentine Gloster Meteor MK IV had.

[@leonardoflores4362]

thanks for your honesty!! greetings from argentina💪👍

[@derlibero9668]

Hey!! Uruguayan pucaras!!! My father was the 1st uruguayan pilot/instructor on those, he also flew 4 of the 6 planes Uruguay bought from Argentina. I still remember the sound of those astazou engines

[@The_kneidlach_engineer]

Los Dragonfly todavía vuelan? Saludos

[@derlibero9668]

@The_kneidlach_engineer pusieron uno a volar hace poco.

[@manolangas_1]

Que linda historia, tu papa era pucarero como le dicen en el escuadron aereo numero 1de ataque no??

[@derlibero9668]

@@manolangas_1 el pucarero original, los primeros en llegar fueron el 220 y el 221, el era el piloto de uno. Y trajo tres mas en vuelo desde Córdoba Pd y no hay quien pueda !!!

[@sergioalcayaga714]

Para pagar incendios forestales ...

[@Rich77UK]

One of my favourite planes! An excellent achievement for the Argentine domestic air industry!

[@andresguerra5748]

As always, very interesting video. I'm humbly gonna take the liberty of republishing a post about this same aircraft that I shared on another channel a little over two years ago. And it's about de service of this aircraft in the Colombian Air Force: 👇 I served for 25 years in the Colombian Air Force as an Officer (not as a pilot but as an Air Defence / Weapons Specialist Officer) until 2016, and in relation with the Colombian Pucarás i can confirm from first hand that three FMA IA-58 airframes were received in 1989 from Argentina in consideration for a coffee debt that was owed since 1980's to Colombia, with the expectation that an interest will be aroused for the purchase of more aircraft of this type. And certainly it arouse...!!!! These three airframes were numbered FAC2201 to FAC 2203 (FAC meaning Fuerza Aérea Colombiana) and were assigned to the Air Combat Command No. 2 (CACOM-2) in Apiay (Province of Meta, Colombia), in the eastern plains and jungles of Colombia. However, they quickly went grounded due to lack of spare parts, and only until the mid-1990's were they put into full operational readiness with the help of technicians from the Uruguayan Air Force, who sent a mission exclusively for that purpose and spent almost six months in CACOM-2. The Pucará outperformed the OV-10 Bronco, which had also been assigned to the same Air Base (CACOM-2) since 1991 (when Colombia received twelve airframes from U.S.A.). In terms of features and performance Pucarás far outperformed them in combating the country's Marxist narco-terrorist organizations, due to their capacity of fire and effectiveness against them. We, all the crews of all squadrons were very excited and want more Pucarás, instead of Broncos (however, over time, we would receive neither). It was only until 2007 that the FAC had a technological renewal of COIN aircraft, receiving 25 brand new A-29B Super Tucano airframes purchased from Brazil, but that is another story. Still, the Pucará also outperforms the A-29B in speed, range and maximum altitude. However, the weakness of this weapon system was its logistics and availability of spare parts, by 1995 the aircraft was no longer in production and the Fabrica Militar de Aviones Argentina, FMA (Argentine Military Aircraft Factory) that built the aircraft was already bankrupt, for which there was no way to produce spare parts, additionally the engine was of French manufacture and the avionics were U.S. made, therefore the flow of spare parts was a real headache with different logistics lines for the same aircraft, which forced to cannibalize one aircraft in order to have the other two in readiness, until reaching the point where none of the airframes were airworthy by the end of1998. From then on, the airframe engines would only be started on the ground once a month by the Chief Technician Inspector in order to mitigate their deterioration, to the point where they will never start again by its own means, and were stowed outside of the apron out in the open. By 2008, i was in CACOM-2 for second time and by then a team of technicians of the Uruguayan Air Force came to collect the airframes (Colombia has sold the three airframes that were on bad condition to Uruguay), not to make them airworthy and put them to flight, but as a source of spare parts for their own airframes, since the Colombians airframes had fewer flight hours, and therefore would have suffered less stress, due to Uruguayans also had the same problem with the flow of spare parts as the Colombians. Regularly when i performed security duties, i passed by the hangar where the Uruguayan technicians were assigned and sadly watched as they disassembled the airframes. Finally, after a month (more or less) they finished disassembling them and took them along, with all the remaining spare parts that were in inventory in the aeronautical warehouse, in five containers aproximately to be transported by semi truck to a port in the north of the country to later be taken by ship to Uruguay. Truly a sad ending for an excellent aircraft that had a brief but admirable exploits in the Colombian Air Force. I hope that this small information about this aircraft in one of the four Air Forces that operated it can serve in some way as a complement to your already very complete video.

[@msre8800]

Thank you very much for share your experience with the Pucará. It's really interesting!!

[@ghostrider88jinetedelfanta31]

It is awesome and sad that you shared your experiences about the Pucara. Also, it's interesting, but not surprising that the Pucara out performed the Bronco in a mission it was designed for. The Bronco, if I remember correctly, was designed for FAC mission in Vietnam. Regardless, it was designed for conditions of the Vietnam War 20 years before the Pucara.

[@gabrielchirino6854]

Hoy existe un nueva actualización del Pucara llamada Fenix con nueva electrónica y motorizacion, radar de apertura sintética solo se actualizaron algunas células y se espera su autorización para su vuelo. En la década de los 90 se privatizo la fábrica de aviones a una empresa americana y cuando se retiran en los 2000 se llevaron los planos y destruyeron la línea de producción del Pucara.

[@claudionieva3237]

Excelente aporte. Saludos desde Córdoba, Argentina la cuna del Pucará.

[@JudgeVandelay]

Great historical information! Even though it is sad that your 3 planes were so under used.

[@bremnersghost948]

Pucara was a Serious enough threat that the SAS were Deployed to take them out. That says enough!

[@ratagris21]

Yes because Napalm was a threat. This is one of the ordnance options for this aircraft.

[@FlightSimHistorian]

The Pucara is my favorite aircraft produced in South America!

[@Imbel.40]

Embraer EMB-314 Super Tucano.

[@hernanirurzun4062]

​@@Imbel.40But Tucano is not a legend, yet.

[@alenatale5935]

The Pucara's legend is continuos, because FAdeA is working in modernice the first eight (8) IA 58 Pucará aircraft in the "Fénix" version. This contrac was taken in the frist month of the 2024 year.

[@Vladimirthetiny]

Continuous upgrades is one way to keep some kind of local manufacturing capability. Is Milei supportive??

[@Kream_Komi]

​@@Vladimirthetiny Idk if he's supportive in this project specifically. But he's indeed supportive in giving the Armed Forces weight again.

[@Patriarchy_69]

Can sell to Nigeria. 😊

[@Vladimirthetiny]

@@Patriarchy_69 They also need to drop ordanance on their own???

[@astircalix4126]

​@@Patriarchy_69 Why Nigeria? Is your comment some type of discriminatory contribution? It will be a time when Europe will face the consequences of the declining birth rate and Africans will be the vast majority.

[@thomas_jay]

My favorite prop CAS aircraft. Purely going by the aesthetics.

[@Cyan_Nightingale]

It is a good looking COIN airplane alongside OV10 Bronco. While A1 Skyraider, Soko J-20 (Serbia), Embraer Tucano/Super Tucano (Brazil), TAI Hurkus (Turkey) all went with conventional shape.

[@armatian]

I was very lucky to be selected for my last year at highschool to work at 3rd aereal brigade at Reconquista maintaining Pucará. Got to work on hydraulics. The plane was still flying even when the structure were twisted offsquare because of old age. Still it had so much redundance they were solid as rocks. Due to lack of funding there was a lot of cannibalization to keep them flying. The initial idea was counter-insurgence, but late life besides ground attack they were studied like an excellent chopper hunter, two of these working together. There was a IA-58C prototype for a late modernization with american engines, one man crew, and dual 30mm cannons.

[@catmeow11111]

Excellent video! I've always loved the look of the Pucara but was not aware of its history.

[@dapa38]

Fantastic report. Beautiful aircraft and made in Argentina. What more could you ask for? Thanks for sharing.

[@chandrachurniyogi8394]

light ground attack fighter like the FMA IA58 Pucará light multi role counter insurgency strike fighter are easily re-configurable with a whole lot of upgrades . . .

[@chris5634C3PO]

Always thought it was a very nice looking aircraft. Thoughts go to the Brave pilots in the Falkland war.

[@muckergee2113]

most were blown up on the ground by the brave SAS soldiers raiding the airfields !

[@CHUMBOARG]

@@muckergee2113 no, just one raid, on pebble islsand. the mayority was destroyed on the gound by RAF bombs and naval artillery. .

[@quattro4s]

Yesterday I sold the Pucara in 1/72 from Airfix to a modeler and today this video appears!! Nice aircraft and video

[@tinglydingle]

Anyone who thinks losing a war means that the equipment used by that side is bad is being stupid.

[@JTPSS]

Como estaba previsto el aparato fue desarmado y llevado por tierra al "Centro de experimentación de Aviones y Armamento", ubicado en la Base de la RAF de Boscombe Down. En UK fue matriculado por la Fuerza Aerea inglesa como ZD485, siendo probado por el ViceComodoro Peart durante gran parte de 1983, siendo considerado un aparato resistente y muy maniobrable.

[@lucasalvarez3313]

Excelente informe. No es fácil diseñar un avión, construir más de 100 unidades. Operarlo y mantenerlo por años. Argentina lo hizo con el Pucará.

[@bfc3057]

First saw one at 1978 Farnborough Air Show and didn't know what it was, but it looked impressive

[@MrBao-yt7bk]

Argentina sent a Pucará all the way up to Farnborough?

[@bfc3057]

@MrBao-yt7bk yes, at the 1978 airshow - I remember it was serial A-19 in FAA colours - the things we remember from our childhood.! It was parked in the public viewing area. I had never heard of the Pucara before, but I remember thinking it was a very impressive looking aircraft. For counter insurgency, it really looked the part.

[@MrBao-yt7bk]

@@bfc3057 wow that's so cool and so crazy! Sad how 2 countries can go from flying halfway across the world for an airshow to a bombing run in under 4 years.

[@aRi-zx7zt]

Gracias por hablar de este avión, saludos desde 🇦🇷

[@dencio1089]

This is one of my favorite aircrafts. Aesthetically, it looks great compared to OV-10 which we had and used here in the Philippines.

[@hernanarias5145]

mis sinceras felicitaciones por el video, como argentino siempre desconfié de su utilidad pero en Malvinas demostró estar muy por encima de lo que esperaba, aun al ser obsoleto y no estar diseñado para ese papel demostró ser muy robusto y peligroso

[@biko331966]

Argentina not only designed its own airplanes, but also build planes under licenses from fucke wulf. Two main german designers lived in Argentina after de WWII: Kurt Tank, who produced pulqui 2 (later hf24 and mig 15) and Remar Horten, specialized in flying wings (see the naranjero "Orange carrier" cargo plane, designed for transporting orange production from north eastr to ports). Remeber Mr. Horten's designs were used in the actual US B2 stealth bomber. On the other hand, the pulqui 1 (dewotine derived design) made Argentina the 8th country producing and operating turbine airplanes.

[@DmitriyKazusiro]

Спасибо что напомнили про этот самолёт. Я и забыл о нём. Но большее спасибо за чуть расширенный рассказ про самолёты Аргентины. Слышал и читал про пару из них, но вот про реактивные прототипы не слышал.

[@Mauro-n1z]

A fair assessment of this machine's history.

[@GunstockBayA90]

I always loved the look, this would be great with glass cockpit/PT6 conversion, and stol kit for CAS ground support. Add a GAU pod underneath, and 24 hellfires. 2 of these per A-Team along with puff the magic dragon 🐉

[@ArupRatanMitra]

This is an aircraft I've always been curious about

[@JAC2060]

Hi there from Argentina, Yes, Pucara was a successfully combat-proven concept. Imitated by the British. Pucara is the "little brother" of the A-10 US-made CAS aircraft. The A-10 was a tank killer and the Pucara was an infantry killer. But the war in Ukraine will forever change everything, see why... The mass number required for NATO air forces to destroy cheap drones and carry glide bombs from 100 km away is now available from both aircraft. The Pucara and the A-10 are a cost-effective way to transport attack drones, glide bombs, and missiles onto the battlefield. The current Pucara Fenix was supposed to be called Pucara de Fronteras. One fact missed in this excellent research: During the Korean War, Argentina designed the Pulqui, it was the most advanced and effective fighter worldwide, together with the Soviet MIG-15. How was it possible? Well because the company incorporated part of the German team after WWII. The rest of the team developed the MIG 15 in Russia. The US wanted to buy the license to Argentina to manufacture the Pulqui. They needed it urgently since it was the only fighter to match the Mig 15. Unfortunately, Argentina didn't sell the license, so the German team went to the US and developed the third brother, the SABRE to beat the MIG 15. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FMA_IAe_33_Pulqui_II

[@ghostrider88jinetedelfanta31]

@JAC2060, I'm an A-10 fan & I was captivated when I first heard of the Pucara for a number of reasons. As you said, its mission is similar to the A-10 Warthog. I'd be interested in your opinion of introducing a licensed copy of the Pucara since the USAF is determined to retire all the A-10's & abandon the CAS mission? It would probably have to be upgraded w/US motors & avionics. It would be neat if they upgunned to a 30mm or even 25-27mm cannon. 🛩🔫🤔😻

[@JAC2060]

@@ghostrider88jinetedelfanta31@ ghostrider88jinetedelfanta31 Well, both aircraft should be for long-range missions with glide bombs. CAS missions will be only for drones that can saturate manpad missiles or other effectors. Not for manned systems like attack planes or helicopters, no more direct fire support from aircraft in high-intensity wars with near peers. We can see that in the Ukraine battlefield.

[@JAC2060]

@@ghostrider88jinetedelfanta31 CAS will be for drones only. no more helicopters or attack planes. But A10 and Pucara can be the only cost-effective platforms to deliver glide bombs massively.

[@drzing]

Great video! It drew my attention right on. Back in 21/22 I used to see these operating in Uruguay, except they were painted in gray low visibility scheme, and had a lot more embarked electronics and dents around the tail, it seemed to be used mostly for patrolling the national waters, those seemed to have an anti-sub/anti-ship job, rather than CAS. I can't believe they had only 6 of those, I used to see them in pairs, I thought they had dozens of these operating! Its a beautiful plane nonetheless.

[@Emz_Jhaye]

Wow! First time seeing that aircraft! Very nice looking! ✈️ The 2 seater looks like a cross-breed of A-10, Bronco... And that single seater looks like an A-4 Skyhawk turbo-prop version... 😅

[@lavalle01]

Muy buen video! There was also a 4th generation prototype called "SAIA 90" but it was built and I think the plans were sold to Lockheed Martin. It was a hard time with many dictatorships and changes of government from 1960 onwards. We were a great nation, we bled a lot but we will be free and great again. Thanks for the video🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷

[@LessAiredvanU]

The British recognised the value of it. As mentioned it was trailed and a concept based on that evaluation developed. Although that was cancelled, RAF trainer aircraft such as the Bae Hawk and Shorts Toucan were modified so they could be used for COIN operations as well as gunnery and weapons training. This came from the British military being on the receiving end of a supposedly inferior aircraft.

[@stephentaylor9382]

From reading the accounts I don't think the British saw it as an inferior aircraft. The British seemed to respect the aircraft and ensured to dispatch them on the ground where possible.

[@28ebdh3udnav]

Mexico needs something like this

[@diegfb2001]

Pucarás aren't at sell anymore, but Super Tucano from Brazil are a great option.

[@rgfotofilms212]

El poder de fuego y el blindaje del pucara son excelente para insurgencias y hoy el dia el narcotrafico, saludos hermanos Mexicanos

[@scottrobinson3281]

There was one at Duxford in 1997, maybe the same one pictured in RAF colours.

[@TheMissing62]

I saw two of them in Duxford in 2000.

[@chemdi]

One of my favorite aircrafts

[@Argentvs]

It wasn't the first mass produced combat aircraft in south America. Already the IA.e 24 Calquin in the 40s were produced in series.

[@COMPASS_MDP]

"The poor man's Warthog", "The A-10 on turboprops" could be good depictions of this very capable yet economic aircraft. Certainly, this remarcable concept has much more to offer; the new and more powerful powerplant, new avionics and self defense countearmesures, heavier payload, ability to launch and guide smart bombs or air to ground and air to air missiles will put it well above Texans and Super Tucanos; sadly, the production line was closed and many of the tooling was scrapped. It would be a much tempting product for this niche than the above mentioned contendants, due to it's inner volume to accomodate avionics and sensors and because is a twin engined aircraft, which increases enormously it's survivability; such advantages ahould make it a much convenient system for present and future battlefields. But, as mentioned before, argentinians (specially the politicians) not always give the deserved value to their own good products and technical skills. "Pucará" means "Fortress" in a mative indian tribe. Regards from Argentina

[@Alejandroiutub]

The military is way worst than politicians, they gladly gave away the Condor II or stopped the Pulqui II project in favor of Sabres, they switched from FAL and MAG to the AR crap and now decided to buy planes that can't use our bases in Patagonia due to FOI. The Argentinian military seems to love more cosplaying as US armed forces rather than defending their country, their land and their industry.

[@hdehuesos444]

Mas bien se compara con el Bronco

[@jorgegonzalez-pv8mv]

Compararlo con un A-10, es un chiste? Hay que controlar el nacionalismo ciego.

[@tinglydingle]

I'd love to see a modernised version, I think it'd be a fantastic aircraft for modern asymmetric warfare/COIN. Add a TGP, combined with APKWS and SDB and you'd have an enormously capable little aircraft that would be of interest to numerous air forces.

[@COMPASS_MDP]

@tinglydingle That's my point... They are extremely capable, versatile and adaptable aircrafts; they could perform air to ground, anti-drone/helicopter, FAC, attack drone's controller, ESM/ECM , among other missions. This warbird would have a very succesful future but they killed it without thinking in that future... the IA-58 should be the absolute king of attack turboprop airplanes and an important asset for many air forces, today and tomorrow. Greetings from Argentina

[@gustavoguti27]

My city's airbase was the official home of the remaining working Pucaras, until they moved them to another city to convert them in Pucara Fenix. A FMA IA-58 Pucara that was involved in the war, is standing as a monument in the entrance of the city. When they were still operational they used to fly over the main street during independence day parades, a wonderful spectacle

[@santiagodiazgavier2516]

Great video! Thank you.

[@CXWTFKR]

En poco Uruguay va a rematar sus viejos Pucara desprogramados en 2017 junto con los A37. Necesitan espacio en sus hangares para los nuevos Super Tucanos. Sera una gran oportunidad para los coleccionistas de aviones.

[@mikelynn4754]

Great looking aircraft 😃

[@AutomaticUzi]

Amazing Aircraft, so cool!

[@erdiakarsu4945]

me likey this vid didn't know a plane such as this existed. thumbs up

[@rgfotofilms212]

Aguante El "Pucara IA58" = "Fortaleza" en lengua originaria Quechua, saludos desde Tucuman Argentina!!! 💙🤍💙

[@danisantillan9373]

Buen video de la historia del pucara

[@madhusreedharanpathirapilli]

It seems to be very useful bird.. cost effective petroling.. best for any coast guard

[@cmpm7195]

Such a good looking plane. Maybe the plane itself wasn't successful but the concept certainly was ! A modern low cost aircraft able to do ground support and COIN missions. You don't need jet engines to be a good light ground attack aircraft. I think today its poor showing in the Falklands War has not hurt its legacy today. Just have to wonder which "lesser" military will be involved in designing the next Pucara? Maybe an African nation since the needs there seem the greatest.

[@ThisPartIsAndrew]

This thing is epic, and being upgraded with the venerable Pratt and Whitney PT6A. Argentine Air Force is replacing the Astazou XVIG turboprops with PT6A-62 turbines and Hartzell props.

[@cowboysfhestrelladelcamino8949]

Sri Lanka Uruguay y Colombia was operators IA 58

[@CharlesAhner]

In case you were wondering what the Fw-187 Falke, with up-date tech would look like...wonder no more. 😉

[@joseluiscorrea6264]

Exelent report 👏👏

[@liliuMAX]

The most beautiful plane ever produced by Argentina. Pretier than the current Pampas in production.

[@kevinstrade2752]

I kind of disagree, considering a lot were destroyed on the ground during the falkland war, its unfair to say it had a bad record. The fact that British special forces made them a priority tells you of thier combat potential. I think they are a decent platform for light duties and combat.

[@pacifistidentitarian549]

Yassss been waiting for this one 💙🇦🇷👊🏻💪🏻

[@Idahoguy10157]

The Pucara met the requirements for being a counter insurgency warplane.

[@louiswilkins9624]

Useful bit of kit

[@habahan4257]

Good video. It is the manned unmanned combat aerial vehicle of the 1970s.

[@leonardojorgecarneiro8887]

What is that spacer between Prop and engine?

[@SBain-l5n]

Beautiful aircraft

[@signalcabin]

This aircraft was available as a flyable Model in a Falklands Campaign Add on Pack CD for Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 1 and 2. 24 years ago in 2001.

[@cwf_media9200]

it looks like a alpha jet from the fuselage. btw would love to see an alpha jet video

[@Nicolas-zw5ex]

Then look at the IA-63 Pampa

Bravo Argentina!!!! A beautiful and deadly aircraft.

[@367lio]

how about a video about the F110 frigates or some lesser known AEW planes? great vid!

[@bestestusername]

Well done Argentina, good plane for the purpose

[@hobbyhermit66]

It's a pretty nice looking plane. Would probably be a nice scale RC project.

[@acostamarcelo298]

IA58 was never meant to be a "combat" aircraft. He's design comes from the necessity of a light, low flying aircraft to face the guerrillas in the country at the time. That's why its armament is mainly ground focused.

[@atreyuprincipalh4043]

Beautiful fighter turbo prop

[@omargj1]

The FMA IA 58 Pucara was designes as a COIN ground attack, in part due to the fact Argentina was having some Marxist guerrilla conflict on the north west of the country, of course while being designed to operate from unprepared airfields may have helped in Malvinas/Falklands, it was not the "ideal" type of plane for that conflict.

[@mrbharathkiran.1508]

Make a video on how many airforce still operate Boeing 707 or make a video on KC707

[@YoniBaruch-y3m]

KC135?

[@jotan.3457]

Excelente avión el IA 58 Pucará. Los ingleses, luego de la guerra de Malvinas llevaron uno y lo exhiben en un museo junto a piezas de artillería y otras máquinas capturadas en el archipiélago. Que opinas del IA 63 Pampa?

[@WeaponDetective]

It is on our list. We will make a video for the Pampa this year.

[@rodrigopaz9343]

“Combat” aircraft is a relative term. People tend to think about them as fighters & bombers. The IA-58 was not meant for these roles: it has been a COIN (counter-insurgency) aircraft since its design phase. It has certainly been used in all the possible roles you can imagine, but thinking of it as what it was meant for will surely help understand what a good aircraft it was.

[@werwinn]

could be usefull today against drones?

[@alguien2212-7L]

Gaijin when?

[@GORDON_ARG]

You are misinforming, the Pulqui II project was not dismissed for what you say, but because of the coup d'état of 1955 perpetrated by the oligarchy, the church and the armed forces supported by the US and UK embassies. It was a deliberate act to destroy our National Industry. Please inform yourself correctly before making a video with erroneous information.

[@Valentino6977]

A mi me parece rarisimo o sospechoso que la portada sea un Pucará Uruguayo y no argentino. Viniendo de un inglés las sospechas se aclaran... :)

[@claytongorini298]

Não é bem assim, o pulqui 2 era um projeto experimental, sem previsão de produção em série.

[@briansirianni2369]

This aircraft was desing for counter-insurgency not for clase iar souport.

[@Vladimirthetiny]

Might you be able to say this again in English???

[@Nicolas-zw5ex]

​@@Vladimirthetiny It isnt hard to interpret what he was saying

[@Vladimirthetiny]

@@Nicolas-zw5ex I don't speak pidgin english & have no idea what "desing" or "clase" could be. Writing in the op original would enable auto-translate - but this is just gibberish 🤣

[@Nicolas-zw5ex]

@@Vladimirthetiny designed for counter-insurgency, not for close air support

[@Vladimirthetiny]

@Nicolas-zw5ex It's a real pity that the local industry is historically inadequately funded. The talent is there, but the industrial capacity and sustainment capability was/is clearly missing. I wonder if they will have the budget to upkeep the second-hand F-16s?

[@memeofwheat]

Now lemme use it for CAS in warthunder

[@eugosto]

Por que esse avião pucara não teve muitas vendas ? Igual o super tucano .

[@joetaylor486]

As a Brit, I think the Pucará got short shrift as a ground attack plane. We killed most of them on the ground due to the effectiveness of our special forces, and poor defence decisions of the Argentinians. The plane itself seems a very decent ground attack plane. You don't want anything too fast nor too demanding of take -off surfaces. A decent loiter time is useful, as is a high degree of manoeuvrability. The pilot has excellent forward vision also. Maybe they could have done with a bit more armouring and battle-hardening?

[@arielposada4504]

hubo pucara en Malvinas totalmente perforados por el fuego británico y seguían cumpliendo con sus misiones aéreas es un avión fuertemente blindado en la cabina por eso se le llama fortaleza por su robustez pero el mando militar argentino no supo aprovechar todo su potencial , en si fue construido para ataque terrestre contra insurgencia , el modelo de cabina simple era un prototipo para lanzar torpedos pero fracasaron en las pruebas y nunca entro en combate , saludos desde España

[@brianjordan-5357]

It looks like an FW-187 with a T-tail.

[@katahajimeudegarame2397]

the pucarqa was ahead of his time, even the us is considerning replaciong of the a10 with dual propeller CAS aircrfats like the tucano or the pucara

[@suhan8382]

Bronco fuselage A-10 wings

[@chrisgs8727]

The rear place is just for training pourposes...could be better if he could operate weapons as most twin seat plane..

[@williamperry01]

He mentions as quickly as he can in passing about Argentina "hosting" Germans after WW2...Instead of merely saying "Argentina depended on fleeing Nazis for any kind of aerial modernization, and hid them from prosecution in exchange".......Seems it would be more concise to just say that!!!....

[@diegosanchez5900]

unlike what US did for the NASA ?

[@javierdusso436]

No voy a negar que mi país recibió criminales de guerra nazis, eso es una mancha en nuestra historia, pero los alemanes que dieron impulso a nuestra industria aeronáutica (Kurt Tank y los hermanos Horten) nunca fueron acusados por crímenes contra la humanidad.

[@fadark55]

. Who did paperclip?

[@Neptune_zx]

I'll miss seeing this birds fly

[@running2standstill685]

Looks like it can carry more payload than the Tucano. Has a very similar wing look to the A10. Those 2 engines provides more power.

[@flaviograssi259]

brillant aircraft

[@2serveand2protect]

As far as I know it was a great plane ...at least... for it's intended purpose. If you build a plane like that you have to be aware of its limitations though.

[@jerdasaurusrex557]

It looks like a discount Warthog

[@MrGeneralPB]

it kinda was 😉

[@martindione386]

More like a Bronco competitor

[@hdehuesos444]

= Bronco

[@Cyan_Nightingale]

More like Bronco or Super Tucano

[@shaun469]

So do you.

[@KeithLyons-z4h]

Their planes are something out of a parallel world. What looks like jet fighters are prop driven.

[@luquin2653]

You should see Pucará low passes

[@miguelpena9836]

It looks a little bit like the Focke Wulf 187 Falk...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focke-Wulf_Fw_187_Falke

[@chrisgs8727]

Lack of avionics to operate at low level or bad weather over malvinas, also lack of modern weapons as air to surface missiles to attack at longer range, or wires for air to air missiles for anti helicopter missions. ..Junta wasnt prepared for a war at all...

[@paulwilson7622]

I have been aware of this aitcraft for over 2 decades itvseems to be a purposeful aircraft

[@idiokrat]

Not successful against the UK: No wonder, this thing wasn't meant to fight an at least peer enemy, but their own people.

[@jorgechichiri5792]

It's not the "Falk...ds" they're called the Malvinas. Respect pelase.

[@envitech02]

It's a mini warthog

[@RLVIDEOS2024]

*Great Plane COIN CAS*

[@louisbabycos106]

No sound for some reason

[@puppets.and.muppets]

nice plane if you have air cover.

[@SayakMajumder]

the controversial aircraft of War Thunder