Is possible that the torpedo launching mecha was not operative but also likely that it ws put in place in the argentine naval workshops. Remember that the frenchs sold the Super etendar without the complete software for launching the exocet missile. and the Exocet were launched succesfully after a lot of experimentation and test by the technical naval departament.
Trackers: more info translate here
http://www.histarmar.com.ar/Armada%20Argentina/AviacionNaval/AS-Tracker.htm
Just to add my two cents, I have heard that the P3B Orion little fleet that the COAN operates came also “bare naked” inside, specially in the ASW aspect… I was told that the equipment was literaly torn apart from its racks… The radar came because it is an analogical vintage.
Well… now at least one of them can launch exocets, the radar has been digitalized by a scanner so it seems it can even clasify contacts. And I was also told that at least some of them have recovered their ASW “Nature”…
Also they have been equiped with an Argentine developed Data link ystem called LINK ARA… this aparently alows to receive and send info to the systems of other units, aerial and naval. So, what is detected by the P3B, can be used to attack as well as transfering info to for exsmple to the Sues so they can apear from nowhere.
In spite of the shortage of funds, they are not standing still. They even developed a battle system called MIniacco I supose as a joke due to the similarity with the SEWACO system from Signaal that equips the fleet… all units apparently are being upgraded with this, even the A 69 Corvettes made in France.
Cheers,
Juan.
In the minute 4 of this video you can see some of the screens inside the Navys P-3s.
A good clip, Panzerknacker my friend, and a good soundtrack too.
Looking at those screens, it is clear there have been system upgrades, even if the consoles them selves are of an earlier generation that is current elsewhere.
The way the data itself is presented on the consoles seems to confirm this idea.
As I’ve said elsewhere in other contexts, Argentina has performed a series of small military miracles over the years, often in technology that other nations take for granted. As such, Argentine ingenuity is to be admired, and I do.
The classic WW2 example is the Hispano cannon in the Spitfire.
One very unknown story, (and one that I have forgotten most details of, myself) is that it was an Argentine Armourer/Groundcrew in the RAF that solved some of the jamming issues in the early model Hispano employed in the Spitfire Mk II/Mk I B. He repositioned one of the brackets in the mounting. It wasn’t a “100% perfect” solution, but it was a solution that was very workable, and one that the “armaments experts” had not come up with, nor foreseen as necessary.
Kind and Respectful Regards Panzerknacker my friend, Uyraell.
Lovely clip showing the tigercat air defense missiles, englische untertitel von panzerknacker.