The project, valued at $77.5 million, aims to increase airspace surveillance and control capabilities
The command of the Mexican Air Force has requested a budget to have two mobile radars to increase air surveillance coverage in places of high incidence of licit aircraft in the southeast of the country for a total amount of 1,395,696,660. pesos equivalent to 77 and a half million dollars, the above through an Investment Project published on the website of the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit.
The project consists of equipping the National Centre for the Protection and Surveillance of Airspace (CENAVI) with two mobile radar detection systems, in order to increase the surveillance and control capabilities of the national airspace and thus cover the areas with the highest incidence of illegal flights that occur in the southeast of the country. thus ensuring the detection and tracking of aircraft for illicit purposes entering or attempting to enter national territory and airspace.
The main function of this center is the surveillance of Mexican airspace against any illicit or illegal flight that intends to enter Mexican airspace, using the means that exist at the government level to facilitate the tasks of surveillance of airspace.
The Mexican Air Force has operated mobile radars such as a Northrop Grumman W-630, which was incorporated in 1988 and later replaced by the more modern Northrop Grumman AN/TPS-70 and Northrop Grumman AN/TPS-78 of the three-dimensional (3D) type.