Did you know that the Cessna A-37 Dragonfly, a fighter jet derived from the T-37 training aircraft, is one of the oldest attack aircraft still in service in South America?
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The plane made its first flight nearly 60 years ago, in October 1964, and is a veteran of the Vietnam War. It was initially created as a low-cost combat aircraft to be supplied to allies of the United States.
Equipped with two General Electric J85-GE-17A engines, it can fly at a speed of up to 816 km/h. In its B version, it has an armament composed of a rotating GAU-2B/A 7.62 mm machine gun and can carry unguided bombs and rockets, although the jets in Colombia have been modified to carry laser-guided bombs.
According to the World Air Forces 2023 yearbook, the A-37 is still part of the arsenals of Colombia (14 units), Peru (20 units), and Uruguay (7 units). All of them are of the B version, which is precisely the most recent one.
