The Chilean Armed Forces are currently among the better trained and equipped forces of the region, and make up for the best and most balanced military force in all of South America, a status never achieved before by the country, surpassing Argentina and in a certain measure Brazil, as well as Peru in many aspects. The Chilean Air Force (FACh) is equipped with nine Lockheed Martin F-16C/D Fighting FALCONs (Block 50/52), manufactured in 2006/7; 32 ex-Netherlands F-16A/Bs (Block 15 MLU), manufactured in the early 1980's; nine Northrop F-5 TIGER Ⅲs equipped with Rafael PYTHON 4 IR guided missiles; and nine CASA C-101 AVIOJET training and light attack aircraft, better known in Chile as A/T-36CC HALCON. Air defence of the Grupo 23 and 24 consists of two Kongsberg/Raytheon NASAMS systems batteries, two AIM 120C four missile launchers, and short range MYGALE anti-air systems produced by Thales and mounted on Mercedes Benz 230G jeeps.
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