Mexico will replace entire Hummvee fleet with domestically manufactured Ocelot AFV. It is based on the Streit Cobra 4 but heavily modified and riding on a larger platform. In base form it provides STANAG level 2 protection against 5.56 and 7.62 armor piercing small arms natively and can be fitted with modular protection against 12mm & 14mm. A first for light armored vehicles, the roof features equal protection as the front three quarters of the vehicle for defense against drone attacks. The intial batch is powered by a 6 cylinder Mercedes-Benz turbo diesel engine but subsequent batches will be powered by a larger more powerful V8 turbo diesel engine. The intial batch of 340 units has already been recieved and is in service. They will replace all 5,550 Hummvee units in Mexican service over the next six years. Armaments include the M3 12.7mm machine gun, MK19 grenade machine gun, SARAF 20mm & 30mm autocannon RWS, and various anti armor and anti air missiles. It is available as either the Ocelot VERE general utility vehicle with a capacity for 5 troops with a modular open rear bed or Ocelot VTP, a wagon configuration with a closed armored rear section with room for 8 to 9 troops.
>>62497184>10 ton in basic formFat bastard. The heavy roof armor is a good idea though.,
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>>62497184Just buy JLTV at this pointAlso instead if replacing the humvees they should focus on replacing those 50s armored vehicles and even the halftracks
>>62497184>They will replace all 5,550 Hummvee units in Mexican service over the next six years.What will they do with all those humvees?
>>62497322>they should focus on replacing those 50s armored vehicles and even the halftracksThose aren't actually deployed they're used for fun training shit and parases because they're cool. It wouldn't make sense to use them in combat. It's always better to just manufacture locally anyway and it seems like this V8 version will probably use the Gale Banks V8 from the JLTV but built in a Mexico anyways. Mexico also has a Plasan factory so the armor modules are likely the same too.
>>62497336Unironically probably give some to Ukraine and keep others as national guard reserve vehicles.
>>62497336Monster truck jump obstacles, demolition derbies, targets for tank ranges, charity smash ups, etc.
>>62497364You know its funny to think about but Mexico is so COIN focused they probably could manufacture nearly all of their military needs in house. When will we see a Mexican super tucano
>>62497336Sell them to me.
>>62497592>Super Taco*Ftfy
>>62497555Sounds fun. Good for them.
>>62497184>>62497264I like it. It's like a big Land Rover.
>>62497336>What will they do with all those humvees?Conversion to tactical taco trucks>>62498868The Lard Rover
>>62497729Manufactured by Bell
>>62497184>Ocelot AFVHuh, that's pretty good...
>>62500284PRETTY GOOD???
>>62497592Mexico could be a super power if the military took over and they all stopped drinking
>>62497336Sell them to smaller countries
>>62497184Looks like a beefed up Land Rover Defender, nice>>62497374LATAMS are allergic to selling anything to Ukraine, let alone gifting. Otherwise they would have had dozens of Super Tucanos even prior to the invasion.
>>62502172Mexico already quietly gifted a few Mi17 to Ukraine a while back. They were going to likely send all 50 or so to Ukraine to get a better deal on Eurocopters and Blackhawks but commies threw a shit show about it so they are instead transfering the remainder to the National Guard.
>>62497364>seems like this V8 version will probably use the Gale Banks V8 from the JLTVCould be the Ford 6.7L Powerstroke. A bunch of vehicles like that (the Roshel Senator comes to mind) and use the F-550 chassis. It would be cheaper and easier to source that than whatever Gale Banks voodoo witchcraft secret sauce militarized Duramax engine Oshkosh is using in the JLTV. It's just the COTS ferd pick-em-up truck engine and powertrain.The chassis could be done by Blue Diamond Truck or whatever Navistar International calls that Mexican plant these days. They have always been buddy-buddy with FoMoCo.
>>62502214Previously I'd have said yes, but it seems like Mexico is planning to starting to participate in UN peacekeeping operations abroad and wants to start standardizing shit with the US and Euros. Weirdly enough, the National Guard bought Chinese branded trucks because they actually just have MAN engines and drivetrains and Mexico can't presently officially buy MAN military trucks because the company was blocked from selling them to Mexico because it's considered to be in an internal conflict.
>>62502172>>62502196Meheecoh is officially now under Israeli ruling bro. They're offically team Israel in every decision they make. Ukraine is probably gonna get shafted though cause that's new Jerusalem.
>>62502490Sheinbaum has been criticizing Israel and the army is replacing Israeli Sand Cats with these new Ocelot things.
I wish we were in a world where our two physically closest allies were worth a fucking shit.I know we are partially to blame for them being worth less, but still, we can't be blamed for all of it.Hopefully they get their shit together one day.
>>62502584I'd want to see what Mexico would be like as a military power once they develop a little more. They industrially and economically passed Russia for the first time this year. That wasn't projected to happen until 2050 previously.
>>62497322why do armchair retards on here don't understand that countries want to develop their own industry by making their own shit
>>62502566What they say has no validity over who they serve,They can say whatever they want to make you think this, but they serve the same master.
>>62502612>jewish president critiques Israel and ends purchae of Israeli weapons>Heh, this Jew will have you bowing to Israel and only buying Israeli weaponsReturn to pol
>>62497336They get "lost" to the cartels
>>62497336Gift them to PLA sleep units en masse probably for some Pancho Villa Tet Offensive anime crossover bullshit.
>>62502243It's funny how these kinds of things work. The Chinese MAN trucks used by the army are made by Shacman, which literally means Shaanxi Automotive Coroporation Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg (SH.A.C.M.A.N.). The German unit of MAN cannot ship these trucks to the Mexican military due to some lame local law but their Chinese branch can. They still have MAN engines and transmissions but they're simply assembled in China and have a different badge. It's like how the Renault Sherpa trucks that the Mexican Marines use cannot be badged as Renaults and have to be assembled in Mexico and branded as MACK because MACK owns the rights for all Renault products in North America. What is funny is that the Mexican military still uses Mercedes-Benz branded trucks by side skirting the law because Mercedes Benz has a truck assembly plant in Mexico so the parts are just 90% put together in the civilian Mexican factory then mated to the armor panels and machine guns in a Mexican army factory so technically only a local Mexican branch sold a Mexican state owned factory a civilian truck and then this state industry later converted it to a military vehicle themselves. German weapons laws are really fucking dumb like that. It looks like the Mexican army has also acquired more Mercedes Zetros and Unimogs to make artillery carriers and MRAPs as of late as well. Probably why Mexico is stressing local construction is to avoid more dumb export law shit like that. Luvs me German military trucks, 'ate me Germun guvrnment regulations.
>>62497264>>62497184>>62508061This Ocelot is based on the Streit Cobra IV, which is the international variant of the Kia Defense K151 Raycolt, known as the KLTV in Korean service. You can see Kia logos in some interior shots. They're pretty decent. The Mexicans have obviously modified the design a bit. The extra roof armor is a good idea in todays drone dominated battlefield.
>>62508238This is the uparmored version in Korean service. If Mexico adds ceramic plates from their Plasan factory it will likely look similar.
>>62497184Revolver Ocelot
>>62502584The blame for Canada, like much of the rest of the world, lies squarely with the French. "France makes it worse" goes all the way back to the fall of Rome.
I want to see Mexico beat the cartels, but Amerigolems literally can't stop buying drugs.
>>62509084>it's the buyers' fault not the seller. Cartels good bois dindu nuffin
>>62510112>NOOOOO IT'S THE CARTEL'S FAULT I'M A DEGENERATE DRUG ADDICT, THEY LITERALLY FORCED THE NEEDLE IN MY ARM Okay, druggie. Get exterminated.
>>62510112This is the same excuse fat fucks use!>It's McDonalds fault I ate 10 hamburgers a day for a decade and now have the diabeetus. The clown FORCED me to do it
>>62510112>tens of tons of cocaine, fent and other synthetics cross the southern border every year even though the US has such an advanced surveillance tech that they can pinpoint exactly where the drugs are coming from>somehow it's solely Mexico's fault that Americans are dying in crackslums even though the US, again, has all the resources to stop thatMakes you joggle the noggle.
>>62512778Dugs flow into the U.S. because those running the U.S. find it profitable.
>>62508061>SHACMAN
The Mexican army is one of the most hilarious militaries in the world, comparable only to the Philippines.
>>62513529These are probably going to be replaced by soulless turkmobiles soon. It's very likely that Turkish knock off Boxers will replace most heavier AFV in the Mexican army. I wanted the Eitan or SuperAV but they probably had political strings attached. Some tracked vehicles will probably be replaced by them too as the army has no definitive ifv or tracked fire support replacement confirmed.
>>62500932if Mexico had a military coup the US would probably invade, and then the flavor town PMC would try to march on Washington and all the memes will be real.
>>62514324If the Mexican military launched a coup, they'd likely be aligned with the US or at minimum US friendly. The army in Mexico is depoliticized but tends to be more conservative.
>>62502566>Sheinbaum has been criticizing Israelbig if true
>>62514471The American government loves to get involved in foreign wars, and the constant news coverage that a military coup in Mexico would receive would lead to politicians in the US deciding that they needed to get involved in order to attach their name to "solving the problem" to boost their chances of reelection. That would eventually lead to some poorly thought out military action with vaguely defined goals and no real clear path to victory.
>>62508238>The extra roof armor is a good idea in todays drone dominated battlefield.they probably did it for elevated shooters in the city
>>62514601This and the fact that narcos use drones now. Higher definition pic here. They're already out on the streets on deployment. You can see how thick the armor is on the top. I suspect the reason the acquisition of a new 8x8 was held up was because command staff looked at Ukraine to see what really works and changed their tender goals. Mexico is not like Brasil or the US. Tenders are not detailed publicly until shortly before deployment, just the budget, raw numbers and plans for local production are detailed. Often the public is not even sure what foreign partner has been decided on.
>>62508575>images (1).jpgfail
>>62500932If the Mexican government ever took in a combined cartel, not likely to happen, but not impossible.
>>62513529That shit probably works against drug cartels.
>>62502588Thanks doc.
