{"id":51421,"date":"2023-05-02T21:55:20","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T19:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=51421"},"modified":"2023-05-04T22:48:32","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T20:48:32","slug":"latvia-tanks-ifvs-and-storm-of-fire-and-steel-with-spanish-flags-in-kadaga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/05\/02\/latvia-tanks-ifvs-and-storm-of-fire-and-steel-with-spanish-flags-in-kadaga\/","title":{"rendered":"Latvia: tanks, IFVs and storm of fire and steel with Spanish Flags in Kadaga"},"content":{"rendered":"

One more year comes the Iron Spear 2023 exercise of the NATO eFP Battle Group at the Kadaga maneuver field, in Adazi, Latvia.<\/p>\n

The Spanish Leopardo 2E and other allied tanks in a good video of the Latvian Army<\/a><\/rel>
\nThe shots of the M-109 howitzers of the Spanish Army in Latvia seen from inside<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n

The Iron Spear, in addition to a training exercise, functions as a competition between the national teams of the NATO armored forces deployed in Latvia<\/strong>, with two categories: main battle tanks and infantry fighting vehicles (VCI). The Latvian Army<\/strong>, host of this exercise, today released an excellent series of photos from this exercise<\/a>, taken by \u0112riks Kukutis and containing a few images of the Spanish armored vehicles and their crews. You can see a selection of those photos here.<\/p>\n

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A Spanish Leopardo 2E tank, nicknamed \"Phoenix\", during the exercise.<\/strong> The Spanish contingent currently deployed in Adazi belongs mostly to the XII \"Guadarrama\" Brigade, based in El Goloso (Madrid).<\/p>\n

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The Spanish flags waving in Adazi<\/strong> over the tanks Leopardo 2E and ASCOD Pizarro.<\/p>\n

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One of the crew members of the Spanish armored vehicles<\/strong> during the exercise, accompanied by the National Flag.<\/p>\n

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An ASCOD Pizarro infantry fighting vehicle<\/strong> of the Spanish Army during the exercise.<\/p>\n

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The crew of a Spanish Leopard 2E<\/strong> waving with smiles for the photo.<\/p>\n

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A Spanish ASCOD Pizarro<\/strong>, in the foreground, alongside other infantry fighting vehicles, flying the Italian and UK flags.<\/p>\n

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A Spanish ASCOD Pizarro<\/strong> next to a British Army FV510 Warrior infantry vehicle. In the background is a PT-91 Twardy tank of the Polish Army.<\/p>\n

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The participants in the exercise ready to open fire.<\/strong> There are waving Flags of Spain, Slovakia, France, Italy, Poland and the United Kingdom. The tank in the foreground is a PT-91 Twardy of the Polish Army.<\/p>\n

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The beginning of the fire and steel storm<\/strong> launched by the participants in the exercise.<\/p>\n

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Another image of the shots. In the photo we see two PT-91 Twardy tanks from the Polish Army, several Leopardo 2E and VCI Pizarro tanks from the Spanish Army, C1 Ariete tanks from the Italian Army and Challenger 2 tanks from the British Army.<\/p>\n

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The Latvian Army has accustomed us to excellent photos like this one<\/strong>, you can see that in that Baltic country they have a good \"combat camera\" team.<\/p>\n

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A British Challenger 2 <\/strong> with the Union Jack flying above its turret. An exceptional tank.<\/p>\n

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Two French Army AMX-10 RC tank destroyers.<\/strong> The vehicle on the right bears the distinctive pennant of the Foreign Legion.<\/p>\n

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Two British VCI FV510 Warrior.<\/strong> In the background we see the Spanish Flag of one of the ASCOD Pizarro of the Spanish Army.<\/p>\n

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A VCI BVP-2 of the Slovak Army <\/strong> during the exercise. The BVP-2 is the version of the Soviet BMP-2 manufactured in the former Czechoslovakia.<\/p>\n

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A Canadian Army VCI LAV 6.0.<\/strong> This model is the Canadian relative of the US Stryker.<\/p>\n

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Italian C1 Ariete and British Challenger 2 tanks<\/strong> with the flags of their respective countries.<\/p>\n

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Photos: Latvijas Armija<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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