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Updated August 2007
Missile Facilities
Falda del Carmen
Location: 31° 34' 60S, 64° 27' 0W, Córdoba Province
Subordinate to: Air Force
Primary Function: Missile construction, solid fuel propellant development, and testing
Description: Located in the province of Córdoba and was the operating center of development and testing for the Cóndor II missile project. The Instituto de Investigaciones Científicas y Téchnicas de las Fuerzas Armadas (CITEFA) operated Falda del Carmen during the Cóndor project.
Construction began in 1979 and was complete in 1983. Bowas, an Austrian-German firm, built the facility. In 1988, the first successful test of the Cóndor’s solid propellant fuel motors took place. UNSCOM verified that an almost-identical plant was built in Iraq during Cóndor II development. A detailed description of the facility appeared in the defunct Argentine journal Asuntos Militares. In 1997, the Ground Station Terrena Teófilo Tabanera was inaugurated at Falda del Carmen. It receives high-resolution satellite images.
Key Sources:
Anabella Busso, Relaciones Argentina-Estados Unidos en los noventa: el caso Cóndor II (Buenos Aires: Edición CERIR, 1999), p. 16; Eduardo Barcelona and Julio Villalonga, Relaciones carnales: la verdadera historia de la construcción y destrucción del misil Cóndor II (Buenos Aires: Planeta, 1992), p. 20; Daniel Santoro, Operación Cóndor II: la historia secreta del misil que desmanteló Menem (Buenos Aires: Ediciones Letra Buena, 1992), p. 19; "The Cóndor Conspiracy," BBC Panorama, 10 April 1989; Maximiliano Seitz and Germán Sopeña, "En Córdoba, una ventana al espacio," La Nación, 6 September 1997, <http://www.lanacion.com.ar>; "Inspeccionó Di Tella el montaje de aviones A-4," La Nación, 16 September 1997, <http://www.lanacion.com.ar/>.
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