{"id":52644,"date":"2023-08-07T22:10:46","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T20:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=52644"},"modified":"2024-08-07T00:24:33","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T22:24:33","slug":"the-images-of-a-spanish-company-of-mechanized-infantry-in-action-in-latvia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/08\/07\/the-images-of-a-spanish-company-of-mechanized-infantry-in-action-in-latvia\/","title":{"rendered":"The images of a Spanish company of mechanized infantry in action in Latvia"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Brigade \"Guadarrama\" XII continues its activity in Latvia, as part of its deployment in NATO's eFP Battle Group Latvia.<\/p>\n

The impressive military ceremony in Latvia in which the Spanish contingent has participated<\/a><\/rel>
\nThe Spanish Army achieves the first two places in a NATO sniper contest<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n

On August 4, at the Latvian base of Camp \u0100da\u017ei, the Mechanized Infantry Company \"Pelayo\" <\/strong> carried out a live fire exercise, which was published today on the Facebook page<\/a> of the eFP Battle Group Latvia. You can see those images here.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

An ASCOD Pizarro infantry fighting vehicle<\/strong> of the Spanish Army rapidly advancing through the Camp \u0100da\u017ei maneuver area.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

A Spanish Army VAMTAC ST-5 Uro<\/strong> equipped with a Spike LR anti-tank missile launcher. The vehicle is masked with camouflage nets to blend in with the wooded environment of this field of maneuvers.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

The moment of firing the Spike LR missile<\/strong>. On the right we can see the missile already in flight with its wings extended.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

The descent of Spanish soldiers from the tailgate of an ASCOD Pizarro.<\/strong> The soldier on the left carries a Heckler & Koch MG-4E 5.56mm light machine gun. The one coming out the gate is carrying a Heckler & Koch G-36E assault rifle.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Another image of the deployment of the squad of Spanish soldiers<\/strong> after descending from the ASCOD Pizarro. In addition to the two soldiers in the photo above, we see on the left one armed with a G-36E equipped with an AG-36 40mm grenade launcher. One of the soldiers carries an Instalaza C90 90mm rocket launcher.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Spanish soldiers in prone position<\/strong> in front of the ASCOD Pizarro. On the left we see the grenadier equipped with the G-36E rifle with AG-36 grenade launcher. In the center is the operator of the MG-4E machine gun. On the right is a rifleman with a G-36E.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Spanish soldiers behind the ASCOD Pizarro.<\/strong> We see one of them with a 5.56 mm caliber ammunition belt, probably for the MG-4E machine gun.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

A Spanish rifleman, center, along with two select marksmen.<\/strong> The marksman on the left carries an Accuracy AW308 sniper rifle. On the right we see the spotter of the select marksmen duo, who is armed with a G-36E equipped with a telescopic sight.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Two Spanish observers during the exercise<\/strong> at the Latvian military base.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Brigade \u00abGuadarrama\u00bb XII continues its activity in Latvia, as part of its deployment in NATO’s eFP Battle Group 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":[19536,11544],"tags":[11254,18169,7979,18071,6105,1524,12809,10557,16825,1602],"class_list":["post-52644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-army","tag-adazi","tag-accuracy-aw308","tag-ascod-pizarro","tag-brigade-guadarrama-xii","tag-heckler-koch-ag36","tag-heckler-koch-g36","tag-heckler-koch-mg-4","tag-spanish-army","tag-spike-missile","tag-uro-vamtac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52644"}],"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=52644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}