The IA-58 Pucará: The Forgotten Flying Fortress of Argentina

Designed and built as a counter-insurgency aircraft, the IA-58 Pucará, being rugged and dependable and able to fly from short rudimentary airstrips, found itself on the front lines of the Falklands War. Promising Prototypes Argentina realized in the late 1960s the need for a COIN (counter-insurgency) and anti-guerilla aircraft, and the Argentine Air Force, or […]

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