Condor (Argentine missile) explained

Condor (Argentine missile) should not be confused with AGM-53 Condor.

The Argentine Condor missile was a multinational space research program started in the 1970s. It involved significant contract work being performed by German company MBB (now a group within Daimler AG), but later developed into a ballistic missiles program.

Condor I

The original Condor[1] had little military capability but helped build expertise later used for the Alacrán missile program.[2] [3] The Alacrán program developed a functional short-range ballistic missile.

Specifications (Condor I)

Alacrán (Condor IAIII)

The Alacrán missile was a short range ballistic missile derived from the Condor Missile Program.[4]

Derived from the Condor IAIII prototype, the Alacrán missile had shorter stabilization fins, an inertial guidance system, and a 1000CAP1 cluster warhead.

Specifications (Condor IAIII - Alacrán)

Condor II

During and after the 1982 Falklands War (Spanish; Castilian: Guerra de las Malvinas), France (which supplied missiles) placed an arms embargo on Argentina, causing the Argentine Air Force, under the command of Ernesto Crespo, to develop its own medium-range missile in the Condor II[5] program.

This program was undertaken in close collaboration with Egypt,[6] and then Ba'athist Iraq[7] (the Iraqi version was called BADR-2000),[8] however it was discontinued in the early 1990s by President Carlos Menem because of political pressure from the United States.[9] [10] The missile was developed in Falda del Carmen, Córdoba Province.

The Condor missile had a range of 800 km to 1,000 km[11] [12] and a 1000CAP1 500 kg cluster munition warhead.

In 1997, the Argentine Air Force reported to the US Congress that it still possessed two of the missiles that were to be destroyed.[13] [14]

Condor III

There have been reports of a Condor III program. The Condor III would have an increased range to some 1500km (900miles) with the same payload as the Condor II.[11] [15]

See also

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Condor 1 . https://web.archive.org/web/20031022210426/http://astronautix.com/lvs/condor1.htm . dead . October 22, 2003 . Astronautix.com . 2013-10-14.
  2. Web site: Alacran . https://web.archive.org/web/20030902040147/http://astronautix.com/lvs/alacran.htm . dead . September 2, 2003 . Astronautix.com . 2013-10-14.
  3. Book: Joseph Cirincione . Deadly Arsenals: Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Threats . Jon B. Wolfsthal . Miriam Rajkumar . December 2011 . Carnegie Endowment . 978-0-87003-288-2 . 388–.
  4. Book: Joseph Cirincione . Deadly Arsenals: Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Threats . Jon B. Wolfsthal . Miriam Rajkumar . December 2011 . Carnegie Endowment . 978-0-87003-288-2 . 388–.
  5. Web site: Condor 2 . https://web.archive.org/web/20031022213817/http://astronautix.com/lvs/condor2.htm . dead . October 22, 2003 . Astronautix.com . 2013-10-14.
  6. Web site: Egypt's Missile Efforts Succeed with Help from North Korea. 1996. Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20160123045225/http://www.wisconsinproject.org/countries/egypt/miss.html. 2016-01-23.
  7. Web site: Argentina | Country Profiles . NTI . 2013-10-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131226171257/http://www.nti.org/country-profiles/argentina/delivery-systems/ . 2013-12-26 . dead .
  8. Web site: Badr-2000 - Iraq Special Weapons . Fas.org . 2013-10-14.
  9. Web site: Condor Missile Programme (Hansard, 5 March 1996) . . 1996-03-05 . 2013-10-14.
  10. Book: Cirincione, Joseph . Deadly arsenals : nuclear, biological, and chemical threats . Jon B. Wolfsthal . Miriam Rajkumar . 2005 . 978-0-87003-288-2 . Second . Washington, D.C. . 823345765.
  11. Web site: Egypt Missile Chronology . PDF . Nti.org . 2016-01-26.
  12. Book: Etel Solingen . Nuclear Logics: Contrasting Paths in East Asia and the Middle East . 9 February 2009 . Princeton University Press . 978-1-4008-2802-9 . 230–.
  13. Book: Cirincione, Joseph . Deadly arsenals : nuclear, biological, and chemical threats . Jon B. Wolfsthal . Miriam Rajkumar . 2005 . 978-0-87003-288-2 . Second . Washington, D.C. . 823345765.
  14. Book: Robert E. Dundervill, Jr. . Defense Conversion Strategies . Peter F. Gerity . Anthony K. Hyder . Lawrence H. Luessen . 9 March 2013 . Springer Science & Business Media . 978-94-017-1213-2 . 200–.
  15. Web site: Misil Condor III y Cohete tronador II (y algunos mas) . Taringa.net . 3 September 2011. 2016-01-26.

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