(Strategy Page) Mexico has ordered the same model UAV that the U.S. Border Patrol has been using for the last seven years, the Israeli Hermes 450. Brazil has also bought this model, along with some 20 other nations. The Hermes 450 has day/night vidcams for surveillance and a communications relay that enables troops in remote areas to stay in touch with each other. The Hermes 450 can stay in the air for 20 hours at a time and go as far as 200 km. from its base.
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