{"id":720,"date":"2015-02-06T16:23:40","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T14:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/?p=720"},"modified":"2015-02-06T16:25:07","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T14:25:07","slug":"argentina-to-buy-chinese-apc-warships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/?p=720","title":{"rendered":"Argentina To Buy Chinese APC, Warships"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"news_content_0\" class=\"span_news_content\">\n<p><strong>Argentina is expected to buy the Chinese Norinco VN1 wheeled armoured personnel carrier (APC) and sign a deal to co-produce the P18 export corvette during a February 3-5 visit of Argentine president Cristina Fern\u00e1ndez de Kirchner to Beijing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Argentina-To-Buy-Chinese-APC-Warships_060215.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-788 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Argentina-To-Buy-Chinese-APC-Warships_060215-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Argentina-To-Buy-Chinese-APC-Warships_060215\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Argentina-To-Buy-Chinese-APC-Warships_060215-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Argentina-To-Buy-Chinese-APC-Warships_060215.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>According to various media reports, an agreement to be signed in Beijing could include co-production in Argentina of the Norinco VN1 wheeled armoured personnel carrier (APC) and co-operation in building a new ice-breaker, naval tugboats, mobile hospitals, and new warships for the Argentine Navy.<\/p>\n<p>The China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation&#8217;s (CSIC) P18 export corvette is considered to be a highly capable and modern warship and also cheaper than comparable vessels from France, Germany and Brazil. It is expected to cost about US$45 million each, media reports in Argentina said.<\/p>\n<p>China and Argentina had signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in October 2014 on co-operation in defence technology and industry. The joint development programmes were reported as finalised during a Chinese defence trade delegation\u2019s visit to Buenos Aires in late January.<\/p>\n<p>Argentina could buy two warships and co-produce three more in Argentina. The P18 corvette is 1,800 tonnes, is 95 m long, and is powered by two MTU 20V 4000M diesel engines. Argentina wants the corvettes to be able to land its Sea King helicopters and towed sonar.<\/p>\n<p>The Argentine Army evaluated the Norinco VN1 8&#215;8 amphibious APC since last year and could acquire up to 110 VN1s.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, On the first day of her official trip to China, President Cristina Fern\u00e1ndez de Kirchner told local businessmen today that Argentina was in an \u201cintegral strategic alliance\u201d with Beijing.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: www.defenseworld.net ~ 3 February 2015<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Argentina is expected to buy the Chinese Norinco VN1 wheeled armoured personnel carrier (APC) and sign a deal to co-produce the P18 export corvette during a February 3-5 visit of Argentine president Cristina Fern\u00e1ndez&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,175,1,7,22,31,32,18],"tags":[336,636,135,631,478,632,637,635,633,634],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=720"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":789,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions\/789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}