{"id":52292,"date":"2023-07-06T20:22:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T18:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=52292"},"modified":"2023-07-11T21:51:23","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T19:51:23","slug":"the-exercise-of-military-transport-aircraft-from-spain-and-other-allied-countries-in-portugal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/07\/06\/the-exercise-of-military-transport-aircraft-from-spain-and-other-allied-countries-in-portugal\/","title":{"rendered":"The exercise of military transport aircraft from Spain and other allied countries in Portugal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Beja Air Base, in southern Portugal, is the scene of a major international exercise involving military transport aircraft.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/06\/21\/we-are-soldiers-of-portugal-a-video-showing-the-materials-of-the-portuguese-army\/\">\u201cWe are Soldiers of Portugal\u201d, a video showing the materials of the Portuguese Army<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/05\/25\/multifunctional-naval-platform-the-small-aircraft-carrier-that-portugal-is-building\/\">Multifunctional Naval Platform: the small aircraft carrier that Portugal is building<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>The exercise, called ETAP-T 2023, is organized by the Portuguese Air Force and <strong>the European Tactical Airlift Centre (ETAC), which currently groups 13 countries<\/strong>: Germany, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Spain, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, the Netherlands, Portugal and Romania. The function of this center is to <strong>generate a European air transport advanced tactical training capability<\/strong> to organize common and harmonized training events.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emfa.pt\/noticia-4239-primeiro-dia-de-voos-no-etapt-2023\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Portuguese Air Force<\/a>, <strong>the exercise began last Sunday and will end on July 14<\/strong>. During this exercise, it is planned to carry out cargo and paratrooper drops, aeromedical evacuations (MEDEVAC), support to ground forces and special operations, tactical air transport and air-to-air training missions. <strong>You can see here a video about the exercise published a few days ago by the Portuguese Air Force<\/strong>, with images from previous editions<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Teaser ETAP-T 2023\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P2cmI48DHgo?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>Below you can see some <a href=\"https:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/forcaaereaportuguesa\/albums\/72177720309533376\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">photos of the exercise published by the Portuguese Air Force<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53027822523_c9d733ae59_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0; border:0px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A CASA C-295M of the Czech Air Force<\/strong>, number 0453 (cn S-069), taking off from Beja Air Base.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53026754662_86abc2fa09_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0; border:0px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Lockheed Martin C-130J Super Hercules of the Italian Military Aeronautics<\/strong>, MM62179 (46-44, cn 382-5504). In the background we see an Airbus A400M of the German Luftwaffe.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53027725990_fe7e8b64b6_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0; border:0px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A CASA C-295M of the Spanish Air Force<\/strong>, T.21-06 (35-06, cn S-008), belonging to Wing 35, based in Getafe (Madrid).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53027339496_ee2cd5c8af_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0; border:0px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A CASA C-295M of the Portuguese Air Force<\/strong>, number 16703 (cn S-047). This aircraft is equipped with a Northrop Grumman AN\/APN-241 radar in its nose.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53027726000_a28ecf2d8a_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0; border:0px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>An Alenia C-27J Spartan of the Romanian Air Force<\/strong>, 2705 (cn 4167). Romania has seven aircraft of this type, assigned to the 90th Airlift Base \"Comandor Aviator Gheorghe B\u0103nciulescu\", located at the Henri Coand\u0103 airport.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53027822538_4b11ba06e4_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0; border:0px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>An Airbus A400M-180 Atlas of the German Luftwaffe<\/strong>, the 54+39 (cn 125). This aircraft is operated by the 62nd Airlift Wing.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53026754692_2ff611e2fa_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0; border:0px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Portuguese Army paratroopers<\/strong> inside the German A400M.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53026754672_9609f2f1d3_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0; border:0px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Portuguese paraidistas at the moment of the jump<\/strong> from the German A400M.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53027822518_3b331f31d4_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0; border:0px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The CASA C-295M of the Czech Air Force<\/strong> taking part in this exercise, in an impressive frontal photo during takeoff.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53026781127_f3439dff50_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0; border:0px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Lockheed Martin C-130J-30 Super Hercules of the German Luftwaffe<\/strong>, 55+01. This aircraft is part of a joint Franco-German squadron known as BATS (Binational Air Transport C-130J Squadron), based in Evreux-Fauville, France.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Beja Air Base, in southern Portugal, is the scene of a major international exercise involving military transport aircraft.<\/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":[19534,11546],"tags":[2705,8244,7533,8955,19627,19625,6466,19248,19629,19626,8133,19624,2678,933,19628,18682,11875],"class_list":["post-52292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-portada-eng","category-military-aviation","tag-aeronautica-militare-italiana","tag-airbus-a400m-atlas","tag-ala-35","tag-alenia-c-27j-spartan","tag-beja-air-base","tag-binational-air-transport-c-130j-squadron","tag-casa-c295","tag-czech-air-force","tag-etap-t-2023-exercise","tag-european-tactical-airlift-centre-etac","tag-lockheed-martin-c-130j-super-hercules","tag-lufttransportgeschwader-62","tag-luftwaffe","tag-portugal","tag-portuguese-air-force","tag-romanian-air-force","tag-spanish-air-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52292"}],"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=52292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}