User talk:Luigi99212

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The strategy since Calderon, has been to buy helicopters and transport airplanes to support the drug war. With the advice by of the USA and Colombian experts, the current strategy is to increase the helicopter purchases until the late 2020s. There are absolutely no plans to purchase fighters. Some generals want them, yes, but the Senate and Congress do have listened and have NOT made any motion to propose funding for fighters. Therefore, no fighters are foreseen in the 2020s and certainly they are not "planned" purchases. That reporter from the Universal is the ONLY person in the planet that states so, and he has been shown to be wrong. In other words, he merely stated the personal wishes of a general, not the official purchasing plan. Cheers, BatteryIncluded (talk) 20:08, 18 February 2018 (UTC)


 * Added: An American offer in 2004 of 10 ex-USAF F-16A and two F-16B Block 15 MLU with spares, training and armament was turned down, as the price of US$ 1.2 billion was deemed excessive for ‘old’ aircraft. . (I. Guevara and Y. Moyano, Latin American Fighters, Houston, Harpia, 2009, pp.174-175.)
 * Cheers,
 * Fanatics and hobbyists have been speculating and even announcing since 2003 that the purchase of F-16 was imminent, yet not one person has produced a Plan of Purchase by the finance office (SHCP). And the country still has no F-16s in the fleet. My point is that speculations and desires (even by generals) are not formal purchasing plans that actually begin to discuss funding of such purchase by the politicians. The official air strategy remains to purchase more transport airplanes and helicopters to support the drug war and that remains in the long term as far as I can see in the official documents and defense strategies. If that changes, and a purchase for fighters is put forward by the SHCP or the Estado Mayor, I will be happy to update Wikipedia. Cheers, BatteryIncluded (talk) 21:06, 18 February 2018 (UTC)