ARM Durango
Appearance
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Name | ARM Durango |
Builder | Mexican Navy Ship yards |
Commissioned | 11 September 2000 |
Status | in active service |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Template:Sclass- |
Displacement | 1,500+ tons |
Length | 81.4 m (267 ft) |
Beam | 10.5 m (34 ft) |
Draft | 3.90 m (12.8 ft) |
Speed | 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
Troops | capacity for 70 |
Complement | 55 |
Armament | |
Armor | Rolled armor with composite overlay |
Aircraft carried | Eurocopter Fennec |
Aviation facilities | Helipad and helicopter hangar |
ARM Durango (PO-151) is a Template:Sclass- in the Mexican Navy with a main 57 mm gun turret and a helicopter landing pad, currently primarily used to fight drug cartels. It is also armed with SA-18 Grouse missiles. Like other ships of this class, it was designed and built in Mexican dockyards, and is sometimes referred to as a compact frigate. It was named after the Mexican state of Durango
Drug Interception
On December 6, 2009, ARM Durango, in a joint operation with a United States Coast Guard ship, intercepted four boats 55 nautical miles (102 km) from the Guatemalan - Mexico border in the Pacific. Twenty packages of cocaine with the weight of 262 kilograms (578 lb) were seized and nine men were detained.[1]
External links
- "Mexican Naval Secretariat". Archived from the original on 2007-08-10. Retrieved 2007-07-24.
References