Mexico has requested five additional UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters from the United States for its counter-narcotics activities.
The proposed procurement of the Black Hawks, which has received approval from the U.S. State Department, was made public by the U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency in its required notification to Congress of a possible Foreign Military Sales program contract.
Specific requested are five UH-60M Black Hawk Helicopters with designated unique equipment, 13 T700-GE-701D engines, a dozen embedded global positioning systems/inertial navigation systems, 10 M134 7.62mm machine guns, and Safire III forward-looking infrared . . .
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