{"id":51683,"date":"2023-05-20T09:33:54","date_gmt":"2023-05-20T07:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=51683"},"modified":"2025-05-20T00:12:45","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T22:12:45","slug":"a-spectacular-image-of-two-spanish-frigates-and-three-french-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/05\/20\/a-spectacular-image-of-two-spanish-frigates-and-three-french-aircraft\/","title":{"rendered":"A spectacular image of two Spanish frigates and three French aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don't usually dedicate an article to a single photo, but there are times when that image deserves its own entry, like the one you see here.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/04\/20\/mh-60r-seahawk-this-is-the-new-multi-mission-helicopter-that-the-spanish-navy-will-receive\/\">MH-60R Seahawk: this is the new multi-mission helicopter that the Spanish Navy will receive<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/02\/20\/the-spanish-navy-announces-its-12th-squadron-and-the-goodbye-of-the-ab-212-and-the-cayuse\/\">The Spanish Navy announces its 12th Squadron and the goodbye of the AB-212 and the Cayuse<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><strong>From May 8 to 26, the Formidable Shield 2023 exercise will be held<\/strong> at the firing ranges of Andoya (Norway) and the Hebrides (United Kingdom), according to <a href=\"https:\/\/armada.defensa.gob.es\/ArmadaPortal\/page\/Portal\/ArmadaEspannola\/conocenosnoticias\/prefLang-es\/00noticias--2023--05--NT-088-FORMIDABLE-SHIELD-ES?_selectedNodeID=5773103&_pageAction=selectItem\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> the Spanish Navy last week. This is a multinational exercise whose purpose is <em>\"to assess the capabilities of the participating nations, and demonstrate their interoperability, against<strong>complex threats in realistic Air Defense and Anti-Missile scenarios<\/strong>.\".<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>A few days ago, DVIDS <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/image\/7797590\/nato-partners-conduct-photo-exercise-during-formidable-shield-2023\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">posted<\/a> a spectacular photo of this exercise, taken by a US Army officer. <strong>In the image we can see two F-100 frigates of the Spanish Navy<\/strong>, the \"\u00c1lvaro de Baz\u00e1n\" F-101 and the \"Blas De Lezo\" (F103). But there is something else (you can click on the image to see it enlarged).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52910496142_c507b15b25_4k.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52910496142_1f5186ab36_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As you can see in this enlargement of the image, <strong>two Dassault Rafale fighters and an E-2C Hawkeye early warning aircraft from the French National Navy<\/strong> fly over the Spanish frigates. The aircraft are part of the air wing of the French aircraft carrier \"Charles de Gaulle\" R-91.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52911459020_db46503d76_k.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52911459020_535c730b89_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The photo was taken on May 15. Congratulations to its author, it is really an excellent photo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t usually dedicate an article to a single photo, but there are times when that image deserves its own entry, like the one you see here.<\/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":[19536,11545],"tags":[7362,8064,19291,12622,19292,18427,6176,10669],"class_list":["post-51683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-navy","tag-blas-de-lezo","tag-dassault-rafale","tag-formidable-shield-2023","tag-french-navy","tag-frigate-alvaro-de-bazan-f-101","tag-frigate-blas-de-lezo-f-103","tag-grumman-e-2-hawkeye","tag-spanish-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51683"}],"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=51683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}