Here's an article taken from Colombia's largest newspaper,
El Tiempo published in 2008 concerning new weapons they received:
Colombian Army will acquire new Combat Aircraft and weapons
April 13 of 2008
New aircrafts and weapons of high precision will acquire the Colombian Army for the war against the Farc
Colombian news paper El Tiempo has established that the arrival of 25 helicopters is confirmed (Blackhawk), 8 Supertucanos combat airplanes (they are lacked of the initial flotilla of 24), some 13 thousand weapons and 187 armored trucks for transport.
These armament supports, transport and logistics were announced in the 2007 and they make part of the package of acquisitions that they are carried out with the I collect from the tax to the patrimony that already reaches the 4.2 Billions of dollars.
Another part of this money collected it will be dedicated to the logistics and maintenance of the troops and the apparatuses.
"To the 16 airplanes that the Colombian Air Force already flies in the country, it owes himself in a great percentage the success of the operations against the 'Negro Acacio', 'Martin Caballero' and 'Raúl Reyes', among others", one of the officials that has been to the front of the acquisitions assures.
Other purchases that the Military Forces needed with urgency are the helicopters that will allow the Colombian Army to have better mobility in remote areas (especially the forest), as Guaviare, Guainía and Vaupés, where to supply to the troops is difficult.
"One of the most complicated works that complete the Colombian Military Forces and that it seems the simplest, it is the supply of the contraguerrillas comands. To arrive to these places with the food, daily, it is one of the most important missions so that the operations are successful".
For that reason, the Aviation of the Army will receive 5 helicopters MI-17 Russian that, besides men's mobility, they allow to take pieces of heavy artillery, as canyons and howitzers to areas where the apparatuses cannot even land.
They will also bring, in a long voyage from United States, 8 helicopters Black Hawk, of a purchase of 15, for assault operations.
In this respect, the vice minister of the wallet, Juan Carlos Chaffinch, pointed out that between May and November they will be arriving to the country, gradually, as much the aircraft as the other purchases.
For the vice minister Chaffinch these airships will reinforce the task that the Army has come completing in critical regions of the country.
The only material that had been acquired in advance is the Supertucanos, of those that the country already received 16 between the 2006 and the 2007.
The Air force will receive 12 helicopters Gunship “Rapaz”, fundamental for the support of special operations and populations' defense and patrol cars attacked by the Farc.
A change in terrestrial mobility
This force will also have in its flotilla an airplane Super King 350 and 3 airplanes C-295 for transport of troops and logistical support flights and doctors.
And keeping in mind that one of the points to reinforce is the terrestrial mobility of the troops, especially of the Army, 187 trucks were bought to those that are adapting a special armor-plating. These vehicles have the mission of arriving to areas that supposedly, they are impassable for the military ones.
But not alone the Army will be reinforced in this topic. The Navy will receive three patrol boats and two interceptors to counteract the drug traffic, especially in the Pacific. Likewise, the Police will have 511 mottos to reinforce the security in the highways and some cities.
As for the armament, in next 6 months 8 will be received new Galil rifles for the battalions that will be activated this year, as well as grenade launchers, mortars and special teams of night vision and you arm of assault for units elite. As for the teams of communications an investment was made to modernize them.
In the 2009 the IAI KFIR arrives
In the case of the airships that they will be repaired, the vice minister Chaffinch pointed out that an important step will be the upgrade of the 11 airplanes KFir that has Colombia and that it will be made in the country, with national manpower.
"It is expected that next year a commission of technicians from Israel that will guide the work, arrives but it will be made with our technicians", the official pointed out.
Likewise, the 13 K-Fir that were acquired in Israel (for an included total of 162 million dollars the upgrade of the other ones 11), they will begin to arrive in the second trimester of next year.
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