| An investment of 45 million dollars for the first stage of the the G36 assault rifle will be produced in Mexico by the National Defense Secreteriat with the license of H&k .
D.F. (REFORMA) the Secretariat of the National defense (Sedena) will invest at least 45 million dollars in a transexenal project that will allow him to make in Mexico rifle of advanced assault more of the world, which they use special forces of NATO and armies like those of Spain and Germany. The objective of the plan, that represents the greater investment for acquisitions of the Mexican military service in the next years, is to manage the technological transference to assemble in our country the German assault rifle Heckler & Koch G-36, considered superior to models more known like the M-16 American or the Russian Kalashnikov Ak-47. According to the project of budget for the 2005, a total of 516 million 863 thousand pesos will be erogados in next the five years, to implement in gradual form the technological transference towards the Main directorate of War industry. "one looks for to guarantee a correct assimilation and qualification in the use of this technology of vanguard, which will be materialized in five phases", explained the Sedena to the House of Representatives. The document sent to the Camera does not clarify how many rifles will be manufactured, but military sources informed that the G36 will replace to the G3, also of Heckler & Koch, like the weapon of position of good part of the Army. Only 48 million weights would be exerted in both years that reduce to sexenio, whereas the rest of the bottoms would be erogados during the next federal administration.
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