Condor (Argentine missile)

It involved significant contract work being performed by German company MBB (now a group within Daimler AG), but later developed into a ballistic missiles program.

The original Condor[1] had little military capability but helped build expertise later used for the Alacrán missile program.

[4] Derived from the Condor IAIII prototype, the Alacrán missile had shorter stabilization fins, an inertial guidance system, and a 1000CAP1 cluster warhead.

During and after the 1982 Falklands War (Spanish: Guerra de las Malvinas), France (which supplied missiles) placed an arms embargo on Argentina, causing the Argentine Air Force, under the command of Ernesto Crespo, to develop its own medium-range missile in the Condor II[5] program.

This program was undertaken in close collaboration with Egypt,[6] and then Ba'athist Iraq[7] (the Iraqi version was called BADR-2000),[8] however it was discontinued in the early 1990s by President Carlos Menem because of political pressure from the United States.