{"id":50879,"date":"2023-03-19T21:10:15","date_gmt":"2023-03-19T20:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=50879"},"modified":"2023-03-22T21:44:08","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T20:44:08","slug":"rock-and-shots-the-spanish-soldiers-and-their-allies-display-their-forces-in-latvia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/03\/19\/rock-and-shots-the-spanish-soldiers-and-their-allies-display-their-forces-in-latvia\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock and shots: the Spanish soldiers and their allies display their forces in Latvia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NATO's eFP Battle Group Latvia has concluded the ten-day exercise Wolverine Shield, held at its Camp Adazi base in Latvia.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/03\/11\/the-shots-of-the-m-109-howitzers-of-the-spanish-army-in-latvia-seen-from-inside\/\">The shots of the M-109 howitzers of the Spanish Army in Latvia seen from inside<\/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>This Saturday, the eFP Battle Group Latvia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/eFPBGLatvia\/videos\/153688360947814\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> a<strong>n Very rock video showing some moments of that exercise and a spectacular formation of all its forces<\/strong>, which include tanks, self-propelled artillery, infantry fighting vehicles and other military vehicles:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rock y disparos en Letonia\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Tb7KVgMKoIo?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>Next we are going to review the video to analyze some of the vehicles that appear in it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52757326827_98155c15c9_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Vehicles of the Spanish contingent<\/strong>, from the Brigade \"Guadarrama\" XII. In the image we see three Leopardo 2E battle tanks, an Iveco-Pegaso M.250 truck and a VAMTAC ST-5.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52758113074_77099a6a0f_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>An ASCOD Pizarro infantry fighting vehicle (IFV) <\/strong> of the Spanish Army in a lined position. In the background on the right we see a Spanish soldier in winter uniform in a trench.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52757326887_3d6c2574bd_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A self-propelled artillery position.<\/strong> On the left are three M-109A5 self-propelled howitzers and two M-548 ammunition vehicles from the Spanish Army. In the background are four SpGH Zuzana self-propelled howitzers of the Slovak Army, as well as another vehicle that I cannot identify.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52757326922_4af422760b_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Dardo infantry fighting vehicle<\/strong> of the Italian Army. They are deployed with soldiers from the Brigade Bersaglieri \"Garibaldi\".<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52757326842_345edb0361_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Canadian Army M-777 howitzer<\/strong>, just at the moment of firing. An excellent artillery piece from which the Ukrainians are getting great performance.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52758273265_437a8dec02_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Two IFV Dardo and a C1 Ariete tank<\/strong> of the Italian Army moving along a completely snowy road.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52757865636_fcc32e1197_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Two Spanish M-109A5 self-propelled howitzers<\/strong> at the moment of firing. In the M-109A5 on the left we see Spanish gunners and Latvian gunners. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/03\/11\/the-shots-of-the-m-109-howitzers-of-the-spanish-army-in-latvia-seen-from-inside\/\">We already saw these images here a few days ago.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52758273285_48a867f045_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Five Spanish IFV ASCOD Pizarro<\/strong> on a snowy field at Camp Adazi. Spain is one of the main contributors to the eFP Battle Group Latvia since its first deployment in 2017.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52758348833_bc0582d4f5_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Spanish IFV ASCOD Pizarro<\/strong>. The vehicle has a green camouflage net on the turret.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52758112934_13e07477ba_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Polish Army PT-91 Twardy tank.<\/strong> This tank is a version of the Soviet T-72 modernized in Poland. Right now that country is delivering a large part of its PT-91 to Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52758273055_a63122dd8b_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A family photo of all the vehicles of the eFP Battle Group Latvia.<\/strong> This group consists of personnel from Albania, Canada, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Iceland, Italy, North Macedonia, Montenegro and Poland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NATO&#8217;s eFP Battle Group Latvia has concluded the ten-day exercise Wolverine Shield, held at its Camp Adazi base in Latvia.<\/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":[12876,11544],"tags":[11254,7979,18071,15465,14381,16785,17428,12820,10707,7973,7643,13284,18787,11368,10469,16264,17427,10557,18788,1602],"class_list":["post-50879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excluir-de-anotaciones-eng","category-army","tag-adazi","tag-ascod-pizarro","tag-brigade-guadarrama-xii","tag-brigata-bersaglieri-garibaldi","tag-c1-ariete","tag-canadian-army","tag-italian-army","tag-iveco-pegaso-m-250","tag-latvia","tag-leopardo-2e","tag-m-109","tag-m-548","tag-m-777","tag-nato","tag-polish-army","tag-pt-91-twardy","tag-slovak-army","tag-spanish-army","tag-spgh-zuzan","tag-uro-vamtac"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-12 02:48:46","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\/50879","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=50879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}