Mexican Naval Aviation
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Mexican Naval Aviation, is the naval air unit of the Mexican Navy. The Mexican Navy is divided into two naval fleets: Pacific Ocean and Gulf of Mexico.
A Mexican Naval Air Force CASA C-212-400E Aviocar cargo plane in 2007
A Mexican Navy Mi-8 takes off from the flight deck of the USS Bataan
A CASA C-295M on the tarmac
An AS565 Panther of the Mexican Navy
Mexican Navy
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The Mexican Navy is one of the two independent armed forces of Mexico. The actual naval forces are called the Armada de México. The Secretaría de Marina (SEMAR) includes both the Armada itself and the attached ministerial and civil service. The commander of the Navy is the Secretary of the Navy, who is both a cabinet minister and a career naval officer.
Depiction of Mexican Navy Lieutenant José Azueta firing a French Hotchkiss machine gun in the defense of Veracruz during the Second U.S. intervention of the Mexican Revolution, painting at the Naval Historical Museum in Mexico City
Mexican Navy gunboat Libertad in the 1870s
Mexican Navy training ship Cuauhtemoc in 2005
Mexican marines displaying three different camouflage patterns used by the Mexican marine corps.