{"id":49466,"date":"2022-11-24T21:34:23","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T20:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=49466"},"modified":"2022-11-27T19:19:01","modified_gmt":"2022-11-27T18:19:01","slug":"an-explosive-combat-demonstration-by-the-united-states-marines-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/11\/24\/an-explosive-combat-demonstration-by-the-united-states-marines-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"An explosive combat demonstration by the United States Marines in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Marine Corps (USMC) is the largest naval infantry force in the world, with tremendous force projection power.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/10\/18\/lisa-azul-2022-an-exercise-of-the-spanish-marine-infantry-with-united-states-marines\/\">Lisa Azul 2022: an exercise of the Spanish Marine Infantry with United States Marines<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2020\/11\/13\/the-little-known-relationship-between-spain-and-the-famous-marines-hymn\/\">The little known relationship between Spain and the famous Marines' Hymn<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>Last September, the USMC carried out a spectacular combat exhibition at the MCAS Miramar base (California), using <strong> F-35B Lightning II and F\/A-18C Hornet<\/strong> fighters, <strong>AH-1Z Viper, UH-1Y Venom and Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallion<\/strong> helicopters, as well as <strong>MV-22 Osprey<\/strong> tiltrotors and a <strong>KC-130J Super Hercules tanker<\/strong>, as well as ground forces with various types of vehicles. In this exhibition <strong>live fire was used<\/strong>, so that the public could see some small maneuvers with explosions of all kinds. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@AirshowStuffVideos\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AirshowStuffVideos<\/a> <strong>posted this demo video yesterday:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ultimate Marine Corps Combat Demo - MCAS Miramar MAGTF\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/51TCMi5Livo?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>You can see here some captures of the video. Here we see <strong> an F\/A-18C Hornet fighter belonging to VMFA-232<\/strong>, which is based at MCAS Miramar.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52520740427_07288e6b88_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>An F-35B Lightning II<\/strong>. I do not know the unit, since it does not have symbols that identify it, but it is possibly from VMFAT-502, which operates this type of aircraft and is based at MCAS Miramar.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52521207576_da227dd2d7_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As I have indicated above, <strong>the combat demonstration included explosions and real shots<\/strong> from the aircraft.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52521483964_8c49b98877_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A UH-1Y Venom helicopter in an assault by marines<\/strong> using the \"fast-rope\" technique. This helicopter is from HMLAT-303, which is based at Camp Pendleton, California.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52520740372_0ec26ac322_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Marine airdrop <\/strong> from MV-22 Osprey tilrotors.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52521484034_53ecd2556b_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A CH-53E Super Stallion heavy helicopter<\/strong> slinging an Oshkosh JLTV.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52521207596_e422129caf_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Marine Corps (USMC) is the largest naval infantry force in the world, with tremendous force projection power.<\/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":[12876,11545],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excluir-de-anotaciones-eng","category-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49466"}],"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=49466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}