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Mexican Navy receives three UH-60M Blackhawk helicopters

Just as we stated some months ago, the Mexican Navy received three Sikorsky UH-60M helicopters from the United States’ Government.

In a ceremony at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in New Jersey, the Department of Defense Northern Command delivered the brand new helicopters a part of the Merida Counternarcotics Initiative.
It’s been said that the Mexican Navy will use the Blackhawks for CAS, MEDEVAC and Troop Transport Missions along with the Eurocopter EC-725 Cougar helicopters ordered directly by the Mexican Navy.
In the coming months, the US Government will deliver four EADS-CASA CN-234 Persuader Maritime Patrol Aircraft to the Mexican Navy.

Ps. The US Government delivered another three UH-60M for Mexico’s Federal Police last year.

2011
08/25
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UH-60M Black Hawks for the Federal Police

Mexico’s Federal Police has received three brand new Sikorsky UH-60M Black Hawk Helicopters.

Photo taken from the Internet

The state-of-the-art helicopters were donated to Mexico by the United States’ Government under the Merida Initiative counter-narcotics cooperation agreement. The Black Hawks have a nose-mounted FLIR (Forward Looking Infrared) equipment.

Photo taken from the Internet

The Federal Police already operates 7 Black Hawk helicopters (UH-60L) for surveillance, transport and special operations duties.

PS. The Mexican Navy is going to receive an unspecified number of UH-60M’s over the next two years.

2010
11/24
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Pentagon confirms UH-60M helicopters for the Mexican Navy

 

The US Department of Defense has confirmed that the Mexican Navy will receive at least three Sikorsky UH-60M helicopters next year.

Since the UH-60M are not “naval-oriented helicopters”, Sikorsky will convert them to meet the Mexican Navy requirements. The Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs) announced that Sikorsky was awarded a US $36,580,000 contract to conduct the transformation work.

It has been said that the UH-60M (naval-converted) will conduct CSAR, Drug Trafficking Interdiction and other Special Operations missions. The Mexican Navy will be the very first international user of these state-of-the-art helicopters.

UH-60M Cockpit layout

Picture: J.D. Leipold/Army News Service

Addendum: The project (acquisition of platforms and transformation to naval requirements) will have a total cost of approximately US $70 million.  Funds will be provided by the Merida Initiative Counter-narcotics effort.

2010
09/13
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Breaking News (May 3th)

UH-60M (Picture: US Army)

A US State Department senior official said today that five Sikorsky UH-60M helicopters are going to be delivered to Mexico “at the end of summer or the beginning of autumn” as part of the Merida Initiative program.

It has been reported -further confirmation is needed-  that the Black Hawk helicopters are going to be used by the Mexican Navy for a variety of missions such as CSAR, Drug Trafficking Interdiction and Special Operations.

With a state of the art all-glass cockpit (four MFD’s) and an expanded payload capacity and range, the UH-60M is the most advanced version of the Black Hawk family.

UH-60M Cockpit

ADENDUM (MAY 6th):

The US State Department has said today (May 6th) that three Black Hawk helicopters are going to be delivered to the Federal Police in October, and that “a number of other Black Hawks ordered by the Mexican Navy will be delivered next year”.

2010
05/03
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