{"id":50779,"date":"2023-03-11T18:38:46","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T17:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=50779"},"modified":"2025-03-11T00:23:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T23:23:00","slug":"the-shots-of-the-m-109-howitzers-of-the-spanish-army-in-latvia-seen-from-inside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/03\/11\/the-shots-of-the-m-109-howitzers-of-the-spanish-army-in-latvia-seen-from-inside\/","title":{"rendered":"The shots of the M-109 howitzers of the Spanish Army in Latvia seen from inside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/02\/17\/booms-in-the-baltic-lands-the-images-of-the-artillery-of-the-spanish-army-in-latvia\/\">we saw here images of the Wolverine Forge exercise<\/a> carried out in Latvia by Spanish and Latvian artillerymen at Camp Adazi.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/02\/17\/booms-in-the-baltic-lands-the-images-of-the-artillery-of-the-spanish-army-in-latvia\/\">Booms in the Baltic lands: the images of the artillery of the Spanish Army in Latvia<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/02\/26\/the-leopardos-2e-of-the-spanish-army-show-us-their-high-explosive-shells\/\">The Leopardos 2E of the Spanish Army show us their high-explosive shells<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>The Spanish military contingent in that Baltic republic is made up of soldiers from the XII \"Guardarrama\" Brigade, based in El Goloso, Madrid. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=614180623378329\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NATO's eFP Battle Group Latvia released new footage of the exercise yesterday<\/a>, this time in video format, in which we can see <strong>the gunners from both countries inside the Spanish M-109 during the shooting:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"M-109 espan\u0303oles en Letonia\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MFF9YVdfdGc?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>The video has some interesting details that we can see in the following screenshots. <strong>Here we see two Spanish M-109A5s: the one on the right has just fired<\/strong>, and we can see the 155mm shell already in flight.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52739902017_5cc0f9b99f_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>One of the Army's M-109A5s<\/strong> with the winter camouflage nets that the Spanish contingent vehicles have been using in Latvia for weeks.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52740417456_40b7de5587_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>In the tower of the M-109A5 we see a Spanish soldier in the commander's hatch<\/strong>, with the 12.7mm Browning M-2 machine gun, and a Latvian soldier leaning out of the other hatch.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52739901977_5279e9b638_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A synchronized shot from two Spanish M-109A5s.<\/strong> In this case we see the Spanish and Latvian gunners outside the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52740672274_da5c203cdd_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The interior of one of the Spanish M-109A5s.<\/strong> On the right we see the barrel, with the breech open. The shell has just been inserted into the barrel and a Latvian gunner is holding the sack containing the propellant charge.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52740832580_7d19242769_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Another image of the interior of one of the Spanish M-109A5s.<\/strong> On the right we see the housing for the projectiles in the tower. This vehicle can carry up to 36 shells on board. The Spanish M-109A5s are usually accompanied by M-548 ammunition vehicles to supply more projectiles and propellant charges, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/02\/17\/booms-in-the-baltic-lands-the-images-of-the-artillery-of-the-spanish-army-in-latvia\/\">as we saw last month<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52740908638_4a9c728bb6_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The moments before the 155mm howitzer is fired.<\/strong> If we look closely, the gunners close their eyes and mouths to mitigate the effects of the pressure wave generated by the shot.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52740908643_bda39d0530_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month we saw here images of the Wolverine Forge exercise carried out in Latvia by Spanish and Latvian artillerymen at Camp Adazi.<\/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":[18071,10707,7643,10557],"class_list":["post-50779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-army","tag-brigade-guadarrama-xii","tag-latvia","tag-m-109","tag-spanish-army"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-12 03:56:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=50779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}