{"id":49363,"date":"2022-11-16T20:03:24","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T19:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=49363"},"modified":"2023-11-16T01:01:26","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T00:01:26","slug":"impressive-storm-of-fire-and-steel-with-the-participation-of-spanish-tanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/11\/16\/impressive-storm-of-fire-and-steel-with-the-participation-of-spanish-tanks\/","title":{"rendered":"Impressive storm of fire and steel with the participation of Spanish tanks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Camp Adazi, in Latvia, has been the scene of a new NATO Iron Spear 2022 armored competition, the second edition this year.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/11\/10\/sappers-of-the-spanish-army-show-their-bangalore-torpedoes-in-action-in-latvia\/\">Sappers of the Spanish Army show their Bangalore torpedoes in action in Latvia<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/06\/01\/the-self-propelled-artillery-of-the-spanish-army-is-shown-in-action-in-latvia\/\">The self-propelled artillery of the Spanish Army is shown in action in Latvia<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>This exercise took place from November 14 to 16, <strong>with the participation of 34 army teams from 13 NATO member countries<\/strong>, including Spain, which provided two Leopardo 2E main battle tanks and two ASCOD Pizarro infantry combat, with members of the <strong>Guzm\u00e1n el Bueno\" X Brigade of the Spanish Army<\/strong>. The Spanish Defense Staff (EMAD) published yesterday an impressive video of the night shooting session of this competition:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Iron Spear 2022-2\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HbimNM9cjAQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Also, <a href=\"https:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/latvijas_armija\/albums\/72177720303724046\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Latvian Army has published a nice series of photos from this competition<\/a>. You can see some of them below.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52504585750_571b767538_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Leopard 2E tank<\/strong> of the Spanish Army.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52504585770_76dc180466_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Leopard 2A7 main battle tank<\/strong> of the German Army.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52503615697_e48455d1fe_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Two PT-91 Twardy tanks<\/strong> of the Polish Army. It is a Polish modernized version of the Soviet T-72. Poland is donating a part of these tanks to Ukraine to defend against Russian aggression.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52504109936_50f1f3106c_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A C1 Ariete main battle tank <\/strong>of the Italian Army. Behind him is a Dardo infantry fighting vehicle, also Italian.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52504380714_961823d38d_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The tanks and infantry fighting vehicles in position to open fire<\/strong>, each with its national flag. Below you can see a series of impressive photos of the shots.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52504663323_8a64ff9d56_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52504585760_2c075b4576_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52504109856_f94b53dfd8_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52504585775_cf83520b69_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Camp Adazi, in Latvia, has been the scene of a new NATO Iron Spear 2022 armored competition, the second edition this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,11544],"tags":[11254,7979,14381,17423,16710,17428,10707,7973,10469,16264,10557],"class_list":["post-49363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-army","tag-adazi","tag-ascod-pizarro","tag-c1-ariete","tag-dardo-ifv","tag-german-army","tag-italian-army","tag-latvia","tag-leopardo-2e","tag-polish-army","tag-pt-91-twardy","tag-spanish-army"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49363"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}