{"id":49910,"date":"2022-12-30T19:11:10","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T18:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=49910"},"modified":"2023-12-30T01:48:56","modified_gmt":"2023-12-30T00:48:56","slug":"val-de-diestro-this-is-the-shooting-range-of-the-spanish-armys-precision-shooters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/12\/30\/val-de-diestro-this-is-the-shooting-range-of-the-spanish-armys-precision-shooters\/","title":{"rendered":"Val de Diestro: this is the shooting range of the Spanish Army's precision shooters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Precision shooters are a common and essential element in a modern battlefield, both in rural and urban areas.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/12\/20\/the-delivery-of-the-first-dragon-vcrs-to-the-spanish-army-this-is-how-these-vehicles-are\/\">The delivery of the first Dragon VCRs to the Spanish Army: this is how these vehicles are<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<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><\/p>\n<p><strong>Training this type of shooter is a complex task<\/strong>, as it not only includes training in precision shooting, but also camouflage, survival and information gathering techniques, among other aspects. This week, <strong>the Army has unveiled the Val de Diestro precision shooters range<\/strong>, inaugurated in 2020 in the northwest area of the \"San Gregorio\" National Training Center (CENAD), in Zaragoza, a field of maneuvers inaugurated in 1910 and which has an area of almost 34,000 hectares.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Val de Diestro shooter range is 2,000 meters long<\/strong> and has an advanced base of operations, a simulated town, mobile targets and various positions with obstacles such as trenches, sewers, pipes and others elements that can be used by precision shooters to hide when making their shots. <strong>This place has been the scene of the Arqueros 22 exercise<\/strong>, in which six units of the Brigade \"Arag\u00f3n\" I and the Cavalry Regiment \"Espa\u00f1a\" No. 11 have taken part, as shown in this video published on Wednesday by the Army:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Esta semana conoceremos equipos de tiradores de precisi\u00f3n de varias Unidades del #Ej\u00e9rcitodeTierra\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nb0Qf5iUnGA?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><strong>The video shows what the Val de Diestro sniper camp is like<\/strong>, with containers acting as homes, medical posts and simulated enemy installations.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52596534538_f9d0a9f64d_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Army report also shows the parapets in Val de Diestro<\/strong>, including this one made of sandbags, in which we see a precision shooter with a 7-caliber Accuracy AW308 rifle, 62x51 NATO (left) and its observer with a Heckler & Koch G36 assault rifle equipped with a telescopic sight and a bipod (it is the version adapted for observers of the rifle used by the Army).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52596438340_fae15ae315_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here we see a sniper aiming from a pipe<\/strong>. He is armed with a Barrett M-95SP rifle in 12.7 mm caliber.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52596013671_38a7c55b2e_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Of course, this field is also used for the training of observers<\/strong> (since Army sharpshooters are accompanied by an observer for shooting corrections). Here we see an observer with a Leupold Mark 4 12-40\u00d760mm telescope, accompanying a shooter armed with an Accuracy AW308.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52596117851_2160cc500b_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Precision shooters are a common and essential element in a modern battlefield, both in rural and urban areas.<\/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":[18169,4691,18170,18171,5978,1524,15328,11462,10557,18168],"class_list":["post-49910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-army","tag-accuracy-aw308","tag-aragon","tag-brigade-aragon-i","tag-cavalry-regiment-espana-no11","tag-cenad-san-gregorio","tag-heckler-koch-g36","tag-leupold-mark-4","tag-spain","tag-spanish-army","tag-val-de-diestro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49910"}],"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=49910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}