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news Mercopress 2026-05-28

Submarine council flagged ARA San Juan concerns seven months before sinking

Minutes from a 2017 Argentine Navy council detailed technical issues and operational restrictions on the ARA San Juan submarine. These documents are now central evidence in the trial of four former naval commanders.


<p> <img alt="" height="80" src="https://en.mercopress.com/data/cache/noticias/110284/100x80/ara.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0 12px 6px 0; border: 1px solid #333;" width="100" /> Minutes of the Argentine Submarine Force Advisory Council signed by fourteen navy captains on 30 April 2017, seven months before the implosion of the ARA San Juan in the South Atlantic, have become central evidence in the ongoing oral trial before the Federal Oral Court of Santa Cruz, based in ...

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