Task Force Special Purpose Marine Air Ground-South and infrastructure developments in air defense Honduras
(Defensa.com) Forces Corps US Navy began preliminary military exercises in La Mosquitia and Puerto de Trujillo, Honduras. It has also announced that a Task Force Special Purpose Marine Air Ground-South will be established, operating at the base of Palmerola Comayagua, which would be composed of 250 Marines. This is another effort in the fight against drugs and organized crime.
Prime Squadron Air Defense (PEDA) of Honduras rightful operate new aerial detection systems and complex command, control, computing, and intelligence coordination and Recognition (C4IR), apparently from new facilities in the Air Base Colonel Domingo Alvarez Cruz, somewhere in La Mosquitia. The existence of such a serious basis inadvertently discovered during a news conference in 2007. No specific details of the Air Base Colonel Domingo Alvarez facilities, but as for new equipment PEDA 500 million was invested lempiras (between 25 and 30 million dollars) in a control system and air defense. The first details provided cried that it was moving means, operated between Colón, Gracias a Dios and Olancho, with a range of 120 miles tracking. Today are already operational radar defense and air traffic control ELM-2288 AD-STAR long range and two tactical air defense models of ELM-2106NG 3D type ELTA Systems Ltd.
The ELM-2288MR is a 3D solid state system, reach distance Band-S up to 186 miles and is probably located in the Cerro La Mole. The two EL / M 2106 NG are mobile systems, consisting of 3D modules with a range of 50 miles and capable of detecting low. It is speculated that the C4IR operates from facilities in the Base Alvarez Cruz (named after the first commander of the Air Base in La Ceiba, when it was established on October 25, 1978). As for the location of the database, it remains classified, but notes that in the region, specifically in the department of Gracias a Dios, municipality of Puerto Lempira, several airfields that could accommodate such a complex military air.
There is renewed airport near Caratasca, with a hint of select material of 44 meters wide by 1450 meters long, and it seems gain importance and special resonance with US units and police and JTF Policarpo Paz García Puerto Lempira with operations from Lake Ibans, through the lagoon Brus, tip Patuca Patuca bar, Yahurabila, Cauquira, and Usibila to Cape Gracias a Dios, in addition to aggressive patrols within 60 kilometers wide lagoon Caratasca. In the same area of Puerto Lempira there are two other airfields, El Molino, and Celaque, both tracks 80 meters wide and 1,300 meters long. But data from the new base could refer to the airfield in the Community Morocón where there is a hint of select material 20 meters wide by 1645 meters long, and that US firms are referred to as Advanced Database Morocón. These have been equipped with fuel supply tanks with capacity for 4,500 gallons, barracks for the DEA FAST teams of up to 55 operators, and solar panels.
Actually, those US firms talk about three of those similarly equipped facilities: Morocón, El Aguacate and Puerto Castilla. In Olancho, the controversial airfield El Aguacate, in the town of Catacamas, serve in the 80s as a strong point of Honduran and American advanced operations in support of the Nicaraguan contras. The reinvestment in these facilities began in 2007, with 5.2 million lempiras provided by the Zelaya administration, which continued two years later with a hundred million lempiras, partially provided by the Central Partnership for Air Navigation Services (Cocesna ). Since 2010 suspicious constructs were reported in the area and today it seems clear that they are beyond those officially accepted, which included the construction of a terminal and appropriateness of the track, bypassing approvals Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA ). This culminated in the present track select material 30 meters wide and 2,400 meters long.
As for the facilities in Puerto Castilla, specifies that in the Department of Colon Township Ocotales, Iriona, a dirt and grass 45 meters wide by 2100 meters long runs; and one in the city of Tocoa, with a dirt and grass 50 meters wide and 838 meters long. But since 2010 specifically notified that the small airfield in the municipality of Trujillo had been fully rebuilt what was once a 700-meter track built two decades ago to replace the former Regional Military Training Center (CREM) and whose facilities became be present XV Infantry Battalion (Counterinsurgency). Today, the aerodrome has an asphalt runway 36 meters wide by 1050 meters long.
The operational military capabilities have been increased and multiplied wisely by making use of civilian infrastructure in other parts of the country. Here's how the new Maya Task Force Chortí has its home base airfield Copan, opened in early March 2015 in the area of the Yellow River, municipality of Santa Rita, where the existing runway 23 meters wide and 1200 meters length has been widened and lengthened to 1,400 meters Battalion of Engineers FFAAH. It would be remarkable at the time landing a LET-420 ship FAH painted white, believing that it is the FAH321, as the FAH 322 already had gray on that date. At least one more of these aircraft is expected within the year, with another pending further.
The FAH has access to a number of facilities in the territory, and note that among these is the strategic airfield Choluteca, under the operational control of the FFAAH. This has an asphalt runway 30 meters wide and 1,300 meters long, precisely in the area of La Trinchera, operational area Armored Cavalry Regiment (RECABLIN).
The FAH has operations in Region I with responsibility for the departments of Atlantida, Colon, Yoro and Islas de la Bahía; Region II answering Cortés, Santa Barbara and Copán); Region III operating on Comayagua, La Paz, Intibucá, Lempira and Ocotepeque; Region IV with operations in Francisco Morazán, Gracias a Dios, Olancho, El Paraíso, Choluteca and Valle. The FAH uses existing infrastructure, and this is how the Air Base Colonel Armando Escalon shares Espinal track Golosón International Airport, located 10 kilometers from the city of La Ceiba. This is an airstrip asphalt concrete, measuring 2949 meters long and 45 wide. In Toncontín, Tegucigalpa, is the headquarters of the FAH, Hernán Acosta Mejía Air Base, using a runway 2,012 meters long and 45 wide. In La Lima, San Pedro Sula, Armando Escalon Air Base Colonel Espinal uses the airport runway Ramón Villeda Morales, which is 2,805 meters long and 45 wide. Roatan operate aircraft equipment from the Airport Juan Manuel Gálvez, from a runway is asphalt and measures 2240 meters long. The Enrique Soto Cano Air Base, which shares facilities with the FT Bravo USA, has an asphalt concrete runway 45 meters wide by 2440 meters long.
Other facilities civil-military use include those of the Department of Bay Islands, on the island of Utila, where there is an asphalt runway 30 meters wide and 1,300 meters long, and the Swan a 25 gram meters wide by 1423 meters long. On the island of Guanaja operations take advantage of an asphalt runway 18 meters wide by 1221 meters long and with US assistance has been established Naval Base, with a new pier and a special operations center, made to a cost of $ 1.5 million.
Other facilities include those in the department of Atlantida, town of Tela, with an asphalt runway 30 meters wide and 1,500 meters long; in the department of Choluteca, municipality of Nueva Choluteca, we find an asphalt runway 30 meters wide and 1,300 meters long, and in the department of Comayagua, municipality of Wings Relief, a program of land and 28 meters wide 750 meters long; in the department of Copán, town of Bethlehem, Santa Rosa de Copan, a tennis program 18 meters wide by 700 meters long, and one in the town of Cucuyagua, a grass and gravel 18 feet wide by 1,592 meters.
In the department of El Paraíso find the airfield in 9 Battalion, Municipality of Yuscarán, with a dirt / clay 25 meters wide by 2400 meters long; in the department of Francisco Morazán, the airfield in Tamara, has a dirt and grass 23 meters wide by 1050 meters long; in the department of La Paz, municipality of Columbus, La Paz, there is a gravel and dirt 20 meters wide by 800 meters long; in the department of Yoro, airfield Agua Caliente, Olanchito, has a dirt track 30 meters wide by 1223 meters long; in the department of Intibucá, municipality of La Esperanza, there is a gravel and dirt 30 meters wide by 950 meters long; in the department of Gracias a Dios, in the aforementioned municipality of Puerto Lempira, the airfield in Palacios, municipality of Juan Francisco Bulnes, there is a tennis program 25 meters wide by 780 meters long, and in the town of Ahuas , tennis select material of 21 meters 811 meters long, and another in the town of Brus Laguna, made of select material of 21 meters wide and 1,000 meters long. This area is actually full of aerodromes, as no other in the town of Wampusirpi, with a dirt track 27 meters wide by 790 meters long, in the town of Crauquira, with a hint of grass 15 feet wide 625 meters long, in the Community of Raya, County Villeda Morales, with a program of 17 meters wide by 810 meters long; in the department of Valle, municipality of Nacaome, there is a dirt track 30 meters wide and 700 meters long, and in the town of San Lorenzo, Valle, a land of 25 meters wide and 1,300 meters long.
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