Mexico's military defense

John Fedup

John Fedup

The Bunker Group
Feanor said:
It's kind of silly. USMC Reserve btlns are riding around in ancient humvees, but the police are being given shiny new MRAPs from USMC stocks.



Maybe Mexico is planning to invade Guatemala. First Guatemala, then... THE WORLD.

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They don't MRAPs for the invasion, drugs and cash for corruption seem to be quite sufficient.
 
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Comrade69

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As someone who lives near the border and goes to Mexico three times a year, yes they do need to modernize. But not on the scale the OP is talking. Mexico is at war with its drug cartels. They need to invest in things like UAV's. Something like MQ-1 Predator, affordable and is perfect to scout their jungles and take out some meth and cocaine labs. Their methods right now is they fly a transport helicopter miles away, ambush it(and lose some men) then have to sit there and burn it to the ground. Much easier to do a few sweeps with a drone, fire some missiles THEN send the troops to clean up.

But the UAV is one example, they need invest in technology that will help them fight a guerrilla warfare type fight against the cartels.
 
John Fedup

John Fedup

The Bunker Group
Comrade69 said:
As someone who lives near the border and goes to Mexico three times a year, yes they do need to modernize. But not on the scale the OP is talking. Mexico is at war with its drug cartels. They need to invest in things like UAV's. Something like MQ-1 Predator, affordable and is perfect to scout their jungles and take out some meth and cocaine labs. Their methods right now is they fly a transport helicopter miles away, ambush it(and lose some men) then have to sit there and burn it to the ground. Much easier to do a few sweeps with a drone, fire some missiles THEN send the troops to clean up.

But the UAV is one example, they need invest in technology that will help them fight a guerrilla warfare type fight against the cartels.
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An armed Predator sale might be a tough thing to pass through your foreign military approval process. Once the MQ-1 arrives in Mexico, who really controls it?
 
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Rimasta

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John Fedup said:
An armed Predator sale might be a tough thing to pass through your foreign military approval process. Once the MQ-1 arrives in Mexico, who really controls it?
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Well the things is, Mexico's skies have a fair amount of UAS platforms over their airspace. I'm not sure how the legality of all it works, or if it's even openly admitted, but DEA, DHS, and I believe DoD all has UAS platforms keeping an eye on certain areas, and I'm sure some of that information gets shared with the Government in Mexico.
I'm also aware that other Federal agencies, like the State Department also have done flights over Mexico, but from what I understand, in manned aircraft as simple as Cessna's or Ranger helicopters. I've even heard reports of some aircraft taking fire and that some cartels are rumored to posses MANPADS even, though much of this information you WILL NOT find on the Internet.

Besides, why spend money on drones, when your northern neighbor (U.S.) is essentially the drone capital of the world, and they are willing to share their ISR, or at least some of it? I'm sure they have no qualms about us picking up the bill.
 
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