Damen Lays Keel of SIGMA 10514 Long Range Patrol Vessel for Mexican Navy

Navy Recognition ^ | 17 August 2017

[ROCKLOBSTER]

I never even thought of such a thing as a “Mexican Navy”. The next thing I suppose is; you’ll be telling me they also have a Mexican Air Force.

[Travis McGee]

The Bofors 57 is an awesome gun. You give up some range (9m vs 12m) compared to the 76, but it puts more metal on target faster—4 rounds per second, proximity fused for air threats, or set to explode into or passing just above a surface target.

[Travis McGee]

Meanwhile, the USN is involved in an ongoing fiasco trying to fill this niche with the Littoral Combat Ship.

[Redcitizen]

” A Raytheon RAM launcher. “

I don’t think a bighorn sheep is very aerodynamic.

[PUGACHEV]

In 2000 I was scuba diving in Cozumel when a body came up next to the boat. It was a dead diver who had been in the water for some weeks. Our boat captain called the Mexican Coast Guard station only a few miles away and was told that they wouldn’t come out because it was Sunday afternoon and they were off.

[Stosh]

Probably more so than a pickup truck.

[Grampa Dave]

” A Raytheon RAM launcher."

A Dodge Ram pickup could haul, launch and tow the current Mexican Navy boats.

[Army Air Corps]

Yes, they do.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Just curious, but what/who does the Mexican Navy protect against ?

[Army Air Corps]

The Mexican Navy protects Mexican territorial waters.

[Stentor]

Just curious, but what/who does the Mexican Navy protect against ?

Unlawful importation of food hygiene?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Muy Bueno !

[SJSAMPLE]

The Mexican Army has become so corrupted by the narco that the Mexican government (what’s left of it) uses the Navy to fight their drug wars. This boat will be doing only that.

[Army Air Corps]

Claro! :-)

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Last time we visited Ixtapa, Mexican Marines patroled the beach.

[Army Air Corps]

Yep. The Mexican Marines have done an amazing job of taking the hurt to the Cartels.

[HombreSecreto]

Indeed. If I recall the French tried launching a cow, but that was from a castle, not a ship.

[GreenLanternCorps]

A Mexican Air Force P-47 Squadron, under US operational command, performed very well in the Philippines in 1945.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/201st_Fighter_Squadron_(Mexico)

[csvset]

A Mexican Air Force P-47 Squadron

Interesting. I did not know that .