DefenceTalkBeechcraft Corporation, part of the Textron Aviation segment of Textron Inc., announced today it has received an initial order from the Mexican Navy Secretaría de Marina (SEMAR) for two T-6C+ military trainers. This purchase represents the first step in modernizing the Mexican Navy’s fixed-wing aviation fleet and follows a recent expansion of the Mexican Air […]https://www.defencetalk.com/mexican-navy-places-initial-order-for-beechcraft-t-6c-trainers-59144/

DefenceTalkMexican authorities scrambled Wednesday to find a stolen truck containing “extremely dangerous” radioactive material used in medical treatment, officials said. The white Volkswagen Worker truck was transporting a “teletherapy source” containing cobalt-60 when it was stolen in the central Hidalgo state town of Tepojaco, north of Mexico City, the International Atomic Energy Agency said. The […]https://www.defencetalk.com/truck-with-dangerous-radioactive-material-stolen-in-mexico-49831/

DefenceTalkMexico’s nuclear commission said Wednesday the radioactive material inside a stolen truck weighed 60 grams, a quantity experts said is enough to make a “dirty bomb.” Jaime Aguirre Gomez, radiological security director at the National Commission for Nuclear Safety and Safeguards, told AFP the cobalt-60 in the medical teletherapy device has a radioactivity level of […]https://www.defencetalk.com/stolen-isotope-in-mexico-enough-for-dirty-bomb-experts-49828/