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Well Kwaigon, if the next regime if as deranged as the last we will expect the continuation of the same policy. At this point in time I am surely on a list some were, that’s why it is good to have an up to date passport and dollars on hand.
In order to keep the Policía Federal and the Montoneros away I post some Venezuelan Air Force pictures above.
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Arrival of the new EC-225 to the Naval Prefecture Argentina
(defensa.com) arrived in Argentina on board an Antonov An-124 helicopter search and rescue Airbus Helicopters, EC-225, PA-14 enrollment, the Naval Prefecture. This aircraft represents a significant advance for the institution, expecting the addition of two more machines to complete difficult missions that force should be made in the Atlantic Ocean.
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(defensa.com) arrived in Argentina on board an Antonov An-124 helicopter search and rescue Airbus Helicopters, EC-225, PA-14 enrollment, the Naval Prefecture. This aircraft represents a significant advance for the institution, expecting the addition of two more machines to complete difficult missions that force should be made in the Atlantic Ocean.
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Peru’s Army troops involved in the illegal sale of weapons
(Defensa.com) At a press conference, the Minister of Defense of Peru, Jakke Valakivi Alvarez, accompanied by the General Commander of the Army, Army General Carlos Vergara Ciapciak, and the director of the National Police, announced that an official and two junior Munitions Center - CEMUNE- "Cross Bone" are under investigation for allegedly doctored the minutes of delivery of ammunition and hand grenades to the military units of Lima. Valakivi Alvarez lamented "bad elements that conform Army a network of smuggling of weapons, and the police and the Public Ministry are investigating and hopefully the full weight of the law on people who do these bad practices."
Last Thursday by absolute tenure was decreed to the Military Units to Lima to conduct a review and counting of stocks of ammunition and hand grenades in magazines due to recent threats for ransom and selling on the market illegal. This after the seizure by troops of the National Police Intelligence 51 hand grenades BRM-75 type. The initial review of the stocks determined that there was missing. However, further investigation and review of the offices of CEMUNE "Cross Bone" military units of Lima, manipulation and falsification of a number of certificates of delivery was detected, presuming that the munition into which referred not have It has been used, especially during training and operations, and sent to the destination. As the investigation is in its initial phase, the amount of material diverted for illicit purposes is unknown for now.
The CEMUNE of "Cross Bone", under the War Material Service (SMGE) and located about 48 km south of Lima, caters to the military units of the Second Army Division - stationed at Fort Major General Rafael Hoyos Rubio (Rimac) - and the Education and Doctrine Command (COEDE) based in the Military School of Chorrillos. According to unofficial information, stored their arsenals, among others, a large number of small arms ammunition, hand grenades, 40 mm grenade launchers. and mortar 60, 81 and 120 mm and artillery shells 105, 122, 130 and 155 mm.
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(Defensa.com) At a press conference, the Minister of Defense of Peru, Jakke Valakivi Alvarez, accompanied by the General Commander of the Army, Army General Carlos Vergara Ciapciak, and the director of the National Police, announced that an official and two junior Munitions Center - CEMUNE- "Cross Bone" are under investigation for allegedly doctored the minutes of delivery of ammunition and hand grenades to the military units of Lima. Valakivi Alvarez lamented "bad elements that conform Army a network of smuggling of weapons, and the police and the Public Ministry are investigating and hopefully the full weight of the law on people who do these bad practices."
Last Thursday by absolute tenure was decreed to the Military Units to Lima to conduct a review and counting of stocks of ammunition and hand grenades in magazines due to recent threats for ransom and selling on the market illegal. This after the seizure by troops of the National Police Intelligence 51 hand grenades BRM-75 type. The initial review of the stocks determined that there was missing. However, further investigation and review of the offices of CEMUNE "Cross Bone" military units of Lima, manipulation and falsification of a number of certificates of delivery was detected, presuming that the munition into which referred not have It has been used, especially during training and operations, and sent to the destination. As the investigation is in its initial phase, the amount of material diverted for illicit purposes is unknown for now.
The CEMUNE of "Cross Bone", under the War Material Service (SMGE) and located about 48 km south of Lima, caters to the military units of the Second Army Division - stationed at Fort Major General Rafael Hoyos Rubio (Rimac) - and the Education and Doctrine Command (COEDE) based in the Military School of Chorrillos. According to unofficial information, stored their arsenals, among others, a large number of small arms ammunition, hand grenades, 40 mm grenade launchers. and mortar 60, 81 and 120 mm and artillery shells 105, 122, 130 and 155 mm.
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Grob Aircraft, of Germany, wants to assemble training aircraft in Paraguay
(Defensa.com) The proposal arises in the context of the intention of the Paraguayan Air Force to adopt new primary trainers for the training of its pilots. The executive director of the German company Grob Aircraft, André Hiebeler, said Tuesday the president, Horacio Cartes, the firm intends to settle in Paraguay for the assembly of aircraft primary education for both military and civil aviation and installing an entire aircraft structure. "The German company brings a project that will generate work, want to come to assemble the aircraft in Paraguay and this is also part of a complete system that includes training and instruction to pilots, simulator and aircraft manufacturing," the ambassador of Paraguay to the Federal Republic of Germany, Fernando Ojeda, after meeting with President Horacio Cartes.
The ambassador said Grob Aircraft is committed to bring test aircraft late November to show in situ the type of aircraft intended to be assembled in the country. After the meeting with Horacio Cartes, the representative of the German company will meet with the defense minister and the commander of the Air Force to discuss details of the project. Ojeda said that after the November visit could define deadlines and installation in the country and the amount of investment that will require the project.
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(Defensa.com) The proposal arises in the context of the intention of the Paraguayan Air Force to adopt new primary trainers for the training of its pilots. The executive director of the German company Grob Aircraft, André Hiebeler, said Tuesday the president, Horacio Cartes, the firm intends to settle in Paraguay for the assembly of aircraft primary education for both military and civil aviation and installing an entire aircraft structure. "The German company brings a project that will generate work, want to come to assemble the aircraft in Paraguay and this is also part of a complete system that includes training and instruction to pilots, simulator and aircraft manufacturing," the ambassador of Paraguay to the Federal Republic of Germany, Fernando Ojeda, after meeting with President Horacio Cartes.
The ambassador said Grob Aircraft is committed to bring test aircraft late November to show in situ the type of aircraft intended to be assembled in the country. After the meeting with Horacio Cartes, the representative of the German company will meet with the defense minister and the commander of the Air Force to discuss details of the project. Ojeda said that after the November visit could define deadlines and installation in the country and the amount of investment that will require the project.
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Inauguration of the Air Force General Alberto Zanelli as the new Commander in Chief of the Uruguayan Air Force
(Defensa.com) After relieving the Air Force General Washington Martinez, who met the statutory five years at the head of FAU, in his address, stressed that Zanelli between high institutional aspirations before Parliament, which is debating the national budget , raises a number of developments, such as the transformation of charges according to the reality of the current structure, compensation for specific functions, allocation of resources for personnel serving civil-night time, funding for the Commission of Inquiry Incidents and Accidents Aviation (ated), delivery of funds to the Air Reserve staff that joins force and salary increases that will benefit the most effective submerged. Zanelli stressed the importance of strengthening the Air Force and stressed that prevention efforts are made today.
"What things have been avoided or did not happen in our airspace by our planes, our control center or by radar. It is difficult to measure what does not happen but only to ensure that something might happen does not happen by our presence, is a successful task of deterrence, "he said. It also warned of "high service period" of the fleet and added that in relation to the same "demands increase every year and the technology gap", demanding new fighter jets, which need- as recognized government and opposition revamp and is the current priority. Del flypast involving, among other units and 150 crew members, the only two available Pucara, recently placed, and after arduous efforts of Zanelli himself, who until recently was the logistics hours Force Commander, in flying order. Also, as highlighted note, flew Command FAU two Hercules C-130B, which is not very often that are both in flying order, which lately has been achieved.
The military official also confirmed that the two C-212/300 acquired in Portugal, to begin its ferry flight in the next few hours will do it for the North Atlantic, a journey "of more than 17,000 kilometers." The ceremony was attended by President of the Republic, Dr. Tabare Vazquez.
For his part, he relieved Commander in Chief of the FAU, Air General Washington Martínez, held in the morning of September 11 its farewell flight in the same aircraft which flew for the first time 39 years ago. The Embraer C-95 "Bandeirante" FAU 585 Air Squadron No. 3 (Transport), dequeued facilities Air Brigade I (Carrasco) when 09:30 made a flight by the Uruguayan coast and then to practice number of landings International Airport C / C Carlos A. Curbelo, Punta del Este, returned to Carrasco, where landed at 11. Gral. Martínez as co-pilot was the current Director of Finance FAU, Col. . Alvaro Loureiro, veteran crew of this model, which has completed 40 years in service in the Air Force.
Later it was officially said goodbye to his subordinates: "After almost 40 years and for provision of the Act, today it's us leaving active duty in front of our beloved institution, with joy and conviction of our inalienable vocation in the service of the Fatherland. Since that February 1, 1976, we have devoted the best years of our lives to this noble and Air Force military profession, with total dedication. Today "training break" to go to the landing with confidence in the institution and its future, with deep gratitude to the fate of my life and leaving a new guide by the Air General Alberto Zanelli who followed in "closed training "to continue the flight, assuring this difficult challenge to drive on track destinations" Wings of the Motherland ".
Today they are moments of sensitive reflection and mainly thanks to the members of this force, the vast majority of men and women, civilian and military who have had the honor to command, as a guide to a great team, which has worked permanently in management, able to overcome adversity with effort, humility, professional pride and high collective morality. To all of them thanks !!!, from the highest to the humblest of my soldiers, whom I have always valued and admired for his unconditional surrender.
They have chosen a noble profession, full of opportunities, where technology and knowledge must be your constant companions in a way to go where ever find the dignified task of serving the country and its citizens. Enjoy the day, every mission, every flight, always hold high esprit de corps. Based on reality, allow yourself to grow and dare to dream. "
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1. Zanelli-Vazquez.
2. Flight farewell Martinez flying Bandeirante.
3. Flight farewell of General Martinez.
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(Defensa.com) After relieving the Air Force General Washington Martinez, who met the statutory five years at the head of FAU, in his address, stressed that Zanelli between high institutional aspirations before Parliament, which is debating the national budget , raises a number of developments, such as the transformation of charges according to the reality of the current structure, compensation for specific functions, allocation of resources for personnel serving civil-night time, funding for the Commission of Inquiry Incidents and Accidents Aviation (ated), delivery of funds to the Air Reserve staff that joins force and salary increases that will benefit the most effective submerged. Zanelli stressed the importance of strengthening the Air Force and stressed that prevention efforts are made today.
"What things have been avoided or did not happen in our airspace by our planes, our control center or by radar. It is difficult to measure what does not happen but only to ensure that something might happen does not happen by our presence, is a successful task of deterrence, "he said. It also warned of "high service period" of the fleet and added that in relation to the same "demands increase every year and the technology gap", demanding new fighter jets, which need- as recognized government and opposition revamp and is the current priority. Del flypast involving, among other units and 150 crew members, the only two available Pucara, recently placed, and after arduous efforts of Zanelli himself, who until recently was the logistics hours Force Commander, in flying order. Also, as highlighted note, flew Command FAU two Hercules C-130B, which is not very often that are both in flying order, which lately has been achieved.
The military official also confirmed that the two C-212/300 acquired in Portugal, to begin its ferry flight in the next few hours will do it for the North Atlantic, a journey "of more than 17,000 kilometers." The ceremony was attended by President of the Republic, Dr. Tabare Vazquez.
For his part, he relieved Commander in Chief of the FAU, Air General Washington Martínez, held in the morning of September 11 its farewell flight in the same aircraft which flew for the first time 39 years ago. The Embraer C-95 "Bandeirante" FAU 585 Air Squadron No. 3 (Transport), dequeued facilities Air Brigade I (Carrasco) when 09:30 made a flight by the Uruguayan coast and then to practice number of landings International Airport C / C Carlos A. Curbelo, Punta del Este, returned to Carrasco, where landed at 11. Gral. Martínez as co-pilot was the current Director of Finance FAU, Col. . Alvaro Loureiro, veteran crew of this model, which has completed 40 years in service in the Air Force.
Later it was officially said goodbye to his subordinates: "After almost 40 years and for provision of the Act, today it's us leaving active duty in front of our beloved institution, with joy and conviction of our inalienable vocation in the service of the Fatherland. Since that February 1, 1976, we have devoted the best years of our lives to this noble and Air Force military profession, with total dedication. Today "training break" to go to the landing with confidence in the institution and its future, with deep gratitude to the fate of my life and leaving a new guide by the Air General Alberto Zanelli who followed in "closed training "to continue the flight, assuring this difficult challenge to drive on track destinations" Wings of the Motherland ".
Today they are moments of sensitive reflection and mainly thanks to the members of this force, the vast majority of men and women, civilian and military who have had the honor to command, as a guide to a great team, which has worked permanently in management, able to overcome adversity with effort, humility, professional pride and high collective morality. To all of them thanks !!!, from the highest to the humblest of my soldiers, whom I have always valued and admired for his unconditional surrender.
They have chosen a noble profession, full of opportunities, where technology and knowledge must be your constant companions in a way to go where ever find the dignified task of serving the country and its citizens. Enjoy the day, every mission, every flight, always hold high esprit de corps. Based on reality, allow yourself to grow and dare to dream. "
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1. Zanelli-Vazquez.
2. Flight farewell Martinez flying Bandeirante.
3. Flight farewell of General Martinez.
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A video of the Venezuelan military
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The Uruguayan selection of Russian armored vehicles Bear and the dismissal the Paramount vehicles and the British Saxon vehicle
(Defensa.com) The South African firm Paramount, which makes the Marauder, Matador and Maverick (such as equipping the Military Police of Rio de Janeiro) and the British Saxon AT 105 plus offers by Turkish company Local ITC and other regular suppliers of military and police vehicles were in several instances discarded by the Uruguayan Ministry of Interior, to end bidding canceling a meeting convened almost six months to incorporate three Republican Guard armored group of militarized elite strike Uruguayan National Police.
The Republican Guard, to the radicalization, increasing and progressive modernization of certain expressions of urban violence and the usual sports-generation hard unrest, prison riots and even growing quarrels between drug gangs, had requested about 9 armored would join to the current 3 Gaz Tigr, for distribution in the busiest areas of the country, and, if possible, the same model. Since the Interior Ministry licitaba an initial budget of 3 copies, Paramount and British L Jackson & Co, they lost interest in the call, as it would not be feasible for either placed under six vehicles and their respective Park spare parts, manuals, courses, etc.
British option retrofitados copies from originals with 7.62 mm machine gun., Basically a Bedford truck and armored gunship, with antibarricada equipment and many other capacidas- used in Baherein, Ukraine, Malaysia, Oman and Iraq, had come to Uruguay for less than $ 90,000 unit price, considerably cheaper than alternatives. There were offers from other local companies like ITC, usual local representative of the industry Turkish defense (although they would not have tried to products Otokar), which itself remained in the bidding finally unsuccessful, the annulment of which produced its executives a big " confusion ".
Although he spoke insistently questioning and possible challenges to the procedure, the meager amount of units in question would these possibilities aside, for the moment, although many local dealers are visibly upset with permanent recurrence direct purchases by the Ministry of Interior, more once observed by the Court of Auditors and opposition parliamentarians. Police militarization that has occurred in recent years, and its poor performance is seen with great concern from the Armed Forces.
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(Defensa.com) The South African firm Paramount, which makes the Marauder, Matador and Maverick (such as equipping the Military Police of Rio de Janeiro) and the British Saxon AT 105 plus offers by Turkish company Local ITC and other regular suppliers of military and police vehicles were in several instances discarded by the Uruguayan Ministry of Interior, to end bidding canceling a meeting convened almost six months to incorporate three Republican Guard armored group of militarized elite strike Uruguayan National Police.
The Republican Guard, to the radicalization, increasing and progressive modernization of certain expressions of urban violence and the usual sports-generation hard unrest, prison riots and even growing quarrels between drug gangs, had requested about 9 armored would join to the current 3 Gaz Tigr, for distribution in the busiest areas of the country, and, if possible, the same model. Since the Interior Ministry licitaba an initial budget of 3 copies, Paramount and British L Jackson & Co, they lost interest in the call, as it would not be feasible for either placed under six vehicles and their respective Park spare parts, manuals, courses, etc.
British option retrofitados copies from originals with 7.62 mm machine gun., Basically a Bedford truck and armored gunship, with antibarricada equipment and many other capacidas- used in Baherein, Ukraine, Malaysia, Oman and Iraq, had come to Uruguay for less than $ 90,000 unit price, considerably cheaper than alternatives. There were offers from other local companies like ITC, usual local representative of the industry Turkish defense (although they would not have tried to products Otokar), which itself remained in the bidding finally unsuccessful, the annulment of which produced its executives a big " confusion ".
Although he spoke insistently questioning and possible challenges to the procedure, the meager amount of units in question would these possibilities aside, for the moment, although many local dealers are visibly upset with permanent recurrence direct purchases by the Ministry of Interior, more once observed by the Court of Auditors and opposition parliamentarians. Police militarization that has occurred in recent years, and its poor performance is seen with great concern from the Armed Forces.
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Are the Armed Forces of Colombia equipped for the defense of their country?
(Defensa.com) After two raids by fighter aircraft Military aviation Bolivariana de Venezuela in Colombian territory and tension these days lives in the common border between the two countries, the National Congress of Colombia has decided to summon the Minister Defence, Luis Carlos Villegas, a reserved character session to explain the real capacities available to the Armed Forces of Colombia effectively counter any external threat that threatens national sovereignty.
Due to continuous information presented by the media, which show low operability of some weapons systems, including the Kfir fighter jets, it has emerged in some senators of the republic the need to know the current reality of computers are there in Colombia to intervene in a conventional conflict if necessary, as most of the defense budget in recent years has been designed to hold the huge number of troops with which have different Armed Forces and police, reaching the nearly 500,000 men in charge of covering the country in a civil war against the narco-terrorist organizations in Colombia. This has resulted in investment in conventional weapons is minimal to the point that no unit of the Army or Air Force system has portable air missiles, so common today to face any aerial threat at low altitude .
The non-existence is also evident in the Army cavalry tanks, taking into inventories type EE-9 Cascavel armored units with more than 30 years of service and armed with 90 mm cannon mounted in a manual turret being these 6x6 wheeled vehicles to meet the most important in a theater of operations more capable units such as military tank T-72, fitted with a 125 mm cannon, powered by an automatic loading system with reactive armor system and higher power to Colombian armored fire.
In recent days, Congressman and Chairman of the Radical Change political party, Rodrigo Lara Restrepo, expressed the immediate desire to improve and update military arsenal combat aircraft to deter any external threat, also he recalled the urgent need to improve the anti-aircraft systems, shaped today by Eagle Eyes systems made in Israel, which is equipped with 40 cannons Bofors 40mm L70, able to provide protection in a range of 5,000m, becoming obsolete and outdated because today there are weapons that They can be released by aerial vectors from distances greater counteracting efficiency of this system.
Add to this the recent statements of the Chief of Air Operations Jorge Tadeo Borbon Colombian Air Force, Air Force General who stated that currently only 4 kfir version C10 aircraft were able to act against any incursion adds external air and the rest of the fleet was in a review process, because since last March, these aircraft are restricted from flying due to constant problems arising during operation that led to the pilots of Squadron 111 refused to fly the aircraft, symbolically hanging helmets, an obvious application for these aircraft were written off.
This contrasts sharply with the continuous statements made by the defense minister, who announced that the Military Forces of Colombia are in the ability to repel any external threat, ensuring that on arrival at the Defense Ministry found a technologically Military Forces "state of the art" showing a complete ignorance of the past offered weapons systems globally and the real state of most of the equipment and weapons that have the Armed Forces, which now exceed 30 years of life , among which are the Kfir fighter jets, A-37, OV-10 armored vehicles EE-9 Cascavel, EE-11 URUTU, M113 and others.
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(Defensa.com) After two raids by fighter aircraft Military aviation Bolivariana de Venezuela in Colombian territory and tension these days lives in the common border between the two countries, the National Congress of Colombia has decided to summon the Minister Defence, Luis Carlos Villegas, a reserved character session to explain the real capacities available to the Armed Forces of Colombia effectively counter any external threat that threatens national sovereignty.
Due to continuous information presented by the media, which show low operability of some weapons systems, including the Kfir fighter jets, it has emerged in some senators of the republic the need to know the current reality of computers are there in Colombia to intervene in a conventional conflict if necessary, as most of the defense budget in recent years has been designed to hold the huge number of troops with which have different Armed Forces and police, reaching the nearly 500,000 men in charge of covering the country in a civil war against the narco-terrorist organizations in Colombia. This has resulted in investment in conventional weapons is minimal to the point that no unit of the Army or Air Force system has portable air missiles, so common today to face any aerial threat at low altitude .
The non-existence is also evident in the Army cavalry tanks, taking into inventories type EE-9 Cascavel armored units with more than 30 years of service and armed with 90 mm cannon mounted in a manual turret being these 6x6 wheeled vehicles to meet the most important in a theater of operations more capable units such as military tank T-72, fitted with a 125 mm cannon, powered by an automatic loading system with reactive armor system and higher power to Colombian armored fire.
In recent days, Congressman and Chairman of the Radical Change political party, Rodrigo Lara Restrepo, expressed the immediate desire to improve and update military arsenal combat aircraft to deter any external threat, also he recalled the urgent need to improve the anti-aircraft systems, shaped today by Eagle Eyes systems made in Israel, which is equipped with 40 cannons Bofors 40mm L70, able to provide protection in a range of 5,000m, becoming obsolete and outdated because today there are weapons that They can be released by aerial vectors from distances greater counteracting efficiency of this system.
Add to this the recent statements of the Chief of Air Operations Jorge Tadeo Borbon Colombian Air Force, Air Force General who stated that currently only 4 kfir version C10 aircraft were able to act against any incursion adds external air and the rest of the fleet was in a review process, because since last March, these aircraft are restricted from flying due to constant problems arising during operation that led to the pilots of Squadron 111 refused to fly the aircraft, symbolically hanging helmets, an obvious application for these aircraft were written off.
This contrasts sharply with the continuous statements made by the defense minister, who announced that the Military Forces of Colombia are in the ability to repel any external threat, ensuring that on arrival at the Defense Ministry found a technologically Military Forces "state of the art" showing a complete ignorance of the past offered weapons systems globally and the real state of most of the equipment and weapons that have the Armed Forces, which now exceed 30 years of life , among which are the Kfir fighter jets, A-37, OV-10 armored vehicles EE-9 Cascavel, EE-11 URUTU, M113 and others.
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The Mexican Navy will have two other UH-60M
(Defensa.com) Sikorsky has been awarded a contract worth $ 22.6 million to manufacture two UH-60M helicopters for the Navy of Mexico, acquisition will materialize through the Foreign Military Sales credits. Helicopters Navy configured to Mexico must be delivered not later than June 30 of next year. In March, the Agency Defense Security Cooperation (DSCA) announced a US request of the Mexican government for the possible acquisition of three of these helicopters and associated equipment amounting to 110 million dollars.
The helicopters will be delivered in the so-called governmental settings with specific equipment (Gobernment Furnished Equipment or GFE), including the initial application six engines General Electric T700-GE-701D, six teams of satellite positioning and inertial navigation H-764G six machine guns multitube Dillon Aero 7.62mm M134. Three Star Safire III electro-optical devices, three sets of mission planning twelve night vision goggles AN / AVS-9, an auxiliary power unit as well as parts and training. Although now it has not been detailed, it is assumed that the amounts of these teams have been reduced in proportion to the number of helicopters ultimately responsible (four engines, four teams navigation, four machine guns, two electro-optical systems to eight glasses).
Like other acquisitions of this type made by Mexico, they will be used for missions next transport and especially in operations against drug trafficking. The main contractors are Sikorsky Aircraft Company and General Electric Aircraft Company. This order is attached to those made by Mexico in December last year to five of these helicopters for 56.4 million dollars, in September of that year for 8 helicopters valued at 93.2 million.
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(Defensa.com) Sikorsky has been awarded a contract worth $ 22.6 million to manufacture two UH-60M helicopters for the Navy of Mexico, acquisition will materialize through the Foreign Military Sales credits. Helicopters Navy configured to Mexico must be delivered not later than June 30 of next year. In March, the Agency Defense Security Cooperation (DSCA) announced a US request of the Mexican government for the possible acquisition of three of these helicopters and associated equipment amounting to 110 million dollars.
The helicopters will be delivered in the so-called governmental settings with specific equipment (Gobernment Furnished Equipment or GFE), including the initial application six engines General Electric T700-GE-701D, six teams of satellite positioning and inertial navigation H-764G six machine guns multitube Dillon Aero 7.62mm M134. Three Star Safire III electro-optical devices, three sets of mission planning twelve night vision goggles AN / AVS-9, an auxiliary power unit as well as parts and training. Although now it has not been detailed, it is assumed that the amounts of these teams have been reduced in proportion to the number of helicopters ultimately responsible (four engines, four teams navigation, four machine guns, two electro-optical systems to eight glasses).
Like other acquisitions of this type made by Mexico, they will be used for missions next transport and especially in operations against drug trafficking. The main contractors are Sikorsky Aircraft Company and General Electric Aircraft Company. This order is attached to those made by Mexico in December last year to five of these helicopters for 56.4 million dollars, in September of that year for 8 helicopters valued at 93.2 million.
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