601 Assault Helicopter Battalion

Argentine military unit

Batallón de Helicópteros de Asalto 601 601 Assault Helicopter Battalion

Active	1970 - present
Country	Argentina
Branch	Argentine Army
Type	Army aviation
Part of	Army Aviation Command Army Ministry of Defense
Motto(s)	Non Sufficit Orbis
Engagements	Operativo Independencia Falklands War
Commanders
Commander-in-Chief	President
Chief of Staff of the Army	General
Chief of Army Aviation	Colonel
Battalion Chief	Lieutenant Colonel
Insignia
Roundel

Military unit

The 601 Assault Helicopter Battalion (Spanish: Batallón de Helicópteros de Asalto 601) is a helicopter unit of the Argentine Army.

Description

This battalion is the main helicopter unit of the Argentine Army Aviation and is based at Campo de Mayo, Buenos Aires. The unit is composed by Bell UH-1H and Aerospatiale Puma helicopters. It is organised in two assault companies.

The battalion works closely with the infantry unit 601 Air Assault Regiment (Spanish: Regimiento de Asalto Aéreo 601), also based at Campo de Mayo.

History

The unit took part in the Falklands War in 1982 with its original name "601 Combat Aviation Battalion" (Batallón de Aviación de Combate 601).

Inventory

Aircraft	Origin	Type	Variant	In service
Bell UH-1 Iroquois^[1]	USA	Helicopter	205A-1 UH-1H	2 16
Eurocopter AS332 Super Puma^[1]	France	Helicopter	AS332B	3
Bell 212^[1]	USA	Helicopter		1

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "EJERCITO ARGENTINO - ORBAT". Saorbats. Archived from the original on 6 February 2009. Retrieved 5 June 2018.

External links

(in Spanish) Argentine Army Aviation Official website
(in Spanish) Official website
(in Spanish) Article in "La Nación" newspaper Archived 2016-08-08 at the Wayback Machine

Structure of the Argentine Army