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Originally Posted by Rainbow Six
What are the chances of Mexico buying tanks from the United States in the early 90's? Would the US potentially sell something like surplus M47's or M48's to the Mexicans? Or maybe the CG Stingray?
Just a thought...
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The U.S. sort of didn't sell much in the way of heavy or modern equipment to Latin American countries because most of them have unstable political histories. They might use them against their neighbours or even U.S. forces if they had to intervene.
They did sell the M48 and M60 tanks to Brazil, but not to any other Latin American country except for one M60 to Argentina for evaluation. I think the only reason they sold tanks to Brazil was because other Latin American countries were buying West European and Soviet tanks, or in Argentina's case building the German designed TAM medium tank.
However they might sell the Stingray to Latin America including Mexico. It wasn't really a full sized tank and was designed for export. It was a modern design with a decent gun but had weak armour, and it would be only a limited threat to U.S. armoured forces.