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  "path": "/2026/05/17/argentine-air-force-bought-a-used-aircraft-at-double-its-market-price-clarin-investigation-finds?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_content=main&utm_campaign=rss",
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  "textContent": "The Argentine Air Force (FAA) acquired in 2025 an Embraer ERJ-140LR aircraft for USD 4.085 million, nearly double the price the same provider had quoted for an equivalent and better-conditioned plane to a private client just months later, according to an investigation published on Saturday by the newspaper Clarín. The transaction, awarded to the US firm Regional One Inc. in a tender resolved in record time and challenged by a competitor, displays irregularities in the design of the bidding terms, the technical evaluation, and the payment circuit, and forms part, according to the publication, of a pattern replicated in at least three other aircraft purchases by the force since 2021.",
  "title": "Argentine Air Force bought a used aircraft at double its market price, Clarín investigation finds"
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