{"id":52477,"date":"2023-07-21T23:41:28","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T21:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=52477"},"modified":"2025-07-21T00:09:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T22:09:17","slug":"the-new-military-logistics-route-of-spain-and-its-importance-in-a-war-with-morocco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/07\/21\/the-new-military-logistics-route-of-spain-and-its-importance-in-a-war-with-morocco\/","title":{"rendered":"The new military logistics route of Spain and its importance in a war with Morocco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last May, the Spanish Army inaugurated a new rail logistics route between C\u00f3rdoba and Algeciras (C\u00e1diz).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/04\/18\/the-boarding-in-train-of-more-than-100-armored-vehicles-of-the-spanish-army-in-madrid\/\">The boarding in train of more than 100 armored vehicles of the Spanish Army in Madrid<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/04\/06\/the-spanish-leopardo-2e-and-other-allied-tanks-in-a-good-video-of-the-latvian-army\/\">The Spanish Leopardo 2E and other allied tanks in a good video of the Latvian Army<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/ejercito.defensa.gob.es\/publicaciones\/boletin\/2023\/090.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Bolet\u00edn Tierra of June<\/a> pointed out, <strong>this route was opened with the transport of personnel and 34 armored vehicles BMR<\/strong> belonging to the Tercio \"Duque de Alba\" 2nd of the Legion, based in Ceuta, for an exercise at the Cerro Muriano Maneuver and Shooting Field (CMT), in C\u00f3rdoba. <strong>The Spanish Army has published today a video about this logistics route<\/strong>, assisted by personnel from the Railway Company of the Regiment of Pontoons and Engineer Specialties No. 12 (RPEI 12):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tenemos una nueva ruta #log\u00edstica! por ferrocarril\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_UOBN2_a7yI?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 aforementioned issue of Bolet\u00edn Tierra already pointed out that <strong>this logistics route already existed<\/strong>, but it is the first time it has been used to transport a military contingent, \"which opens up many possibilities.\" Although the Army does not comment on it for obvious reasons, <strong>this route would be of enormous importance in the event of a war with Morocco<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"foto_piedefoto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53062529433_998f7e1530_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto;\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"piedefoto\">An ASCOD Pizarro infantry fighting vehicle of the Brigade \"Guzm\u00e1n el Bueno\" X on a flat wagon in January 2020 (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ejercitodetierra\/49403252228\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ej\u00e9rcito de Tierra<\/a>).<\/div>\n<p>And it is that in the event that the Moroccan Army attacked the two Spanish cities in North Africa, Ceuta and Melilla, <strong>this new logistics route would allow a military force to be transferred more quickly from C\u00f3rdoba to Algeciras<\/strong>, for its embarkation and transfer to either of those two cities. Let us remember that <strong>the Brigade \"Guzm\u00e1n el Bueno\" X is based in C\u00f3rdoba<\/strong>, next to the aforementioned CMT Cerro Muriano. It is a mechanized infantry brigade that is <strong>equipped, among other vehicles, with Leopard 2E tanks and ASCOD Pizarro infantry fighting vehicles<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"foto_piedefoto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53062224124_b6100d6ba6_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto;\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"piedefoto\">A Leopard 2E tank of the Brigade \"Guzm\u00e1n el Bueno\" X (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ejercitodetierra\/48470028357\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ej\u00e9rcito de Tierra<\/a>).<\/div>\n<p>The aforementioned Brigade is made up of two regiments that are based in C\u00f3rdoba: the <strong>\"C\u00f3rdoba\" Armored Regiment no. 10 (RAC 10)<\/strong>, equipped with the Leopard 2E, and the <strong>\"La Reina\" Infantry Regiment no 2 (RI 2)<\/strong>. In addition, C\u00f3rdoba is also home to the <strong>Campaign Artillery Group X<\/strong>, with M-109 self-propelled howitzers, as well as the <strong>Sapper Battalion X<\/strong> and the <strong>Logistics Group X<\/strong>. Thus, this railway route, together with the capacities offered by the \"Ysabel\" A-06 transport ship of the Spanish Army (operated by the Navy), <strong>would allow a harsh response in the event of a Moroccan attack<\/strong>. Thus, this logistics route has enormous strategic importance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last May, the Spanish Army inaugurated a new rail logistics route between C\u00f3rdoba and Algeciras (C\u00e1diz).<\/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":[10690,7979,19381,17426,913,15611,7973,7643,12305,11528,11462,10557,17422,9239],"class_list":["post-52477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-army","tag-algeciras","tag-ascod-pizarro","tag-batallon-de-zapadores-x","tag-brigade-guzman-el-bueno-x","tag-cordoba","tag-compania-de-ferrocarriles-del-ejercito-de-tierra","tag-leopardo-2e","tag-m-109","tag-morocco","tag-regimiento-de-pontoneros-y-especialidades-de-ingenieros-no12-rpei-12","tag-spain","tag-spanish-army","tag-spanish-legion","tag-tercio-duque-de-alba-no2-de-la-legion"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-11 23:29:19","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\/52477","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=52477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}