Thread: Mexico police buy Israeli air surveillance systems

Mexico police buy Israeli air surveillance systems
Reuters

9:34 a.m. February 16, 2009

JERUSALEM — Israeli firm Aeronautics Defense Systems Ltd. said on Monday it had won $22 million in contracts to supply Mexico's federal police with airborne surveillance systems.

Products sold include the Skystar 300, a blimp with onboard cameras offering 24-hour monitoring of surroundings, and the Orbiter, a miniature unmanned spy plane, Aeronautics said in a statement.
Israel uses blimps and drones over the neighboring, Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.

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The U.S. gives taxpayer money to Mexico to fight drug gangs and they can't buy a system from an American company?

Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

The U.S. gives taxpayer money to Mexico to fight drug gangs and they can't buy a system from an American company?

Great point JD! I have made a similiar argument regarding mexico's complete apathy in our war on terror. Mexico could have atleast sent a few of their troops to Iraq if for nothing else, a show of symbolic support for the United States!

But no, they didn't send one troop! Mexico does nothing but demand, and take and then demand and take and then take some more! Mexico is the poster child for the ungrateful neighbor to the south!

If you were married to someone like this you would divorce them in a heart beat!