Argentina is weighing fully financed offers from France and Germany to acquire three new conventional attack submarines, a move that would restore an underwater capability lost nearly a decade ago and carry longer-term implications for South Atlantic security. On 7–8 October 2026, Admiral Marcelo Dalle Nogare (also reported as Della Nogare), Chief of the Joint Staff of the Argentine Armed Forces, stated that both countries had offered to finance 100 per cent of the purchase o
