{"id":53350,"date":"2023-10-09T20:54:39","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T18:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=53350"},"modified":"2024-11-24T20:13:38","modified_gmt":"2024-11-24T19:13:38","slug":"the-spanish-army-shows-the-load-capacity-of-its-chinook-heavy-helicopters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/10\/09\/the-spanish-army-shows-the-load-capacity-of-its-chinook-heavy-helicopters\/","title":{"rendered":"The Spanish Army shows the load capacity of its Chinook heavy helicopters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The largest helicopters of the Spanish Armed Forces are the CH-47 Chinook of the Airmobile Forces of the Land Army (FAMET).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/08\/16\/thank-you-spain-slovenia-is-moved-by-the-help-of-a-ch-47f-helicopter-of-the-famet\/\">'Thank you Spain': Slovenia is moved by the help of a CH-47F helicopter of the FAMET<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/02\/02\/the-delivery-operation-of-a-ch-47f-chinook-helicopter-to-spain-with-an-american-c-17\/\">The delivery operation of a CH-47F Chinook helicopter to Spain with an American C-17<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>These two-rotor giants are assigned to the <strong>Transport Helicopter Battalion V (BHELTRA V)<\/strong>, which is based at the \"Coronel Mat\u00e9\" Base, in Colmenar Viejo (Madrid). <strong>Spain purchased a total of 19 CH-47s in two batches:<\/strong> the first 10 were of the CH-47C variant and arrived in Spain in 1973, while the second batch was purchased in 1982, with a total of 9 CH-47D. Two of the helicopters were lost in accidents and 17 CH-47s remain operational today, currently being upgraded to the CH-47F variant.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Yesterday, the Spanish Army released an interesting video that shows the load capacity of these heavy helicopters<\/strong>, specifically one of the new CH-47F, the ET-423 (HT.17-23A). The images were recorded during a joint air assault exercise with the <strong>VI \"Almog\u00e1vares\" Parachute Brigade (BRIPAC)<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"El adiestramiento #FAMET y #BRIPAC, es esencial para integrar capacidades en op. de asalto a\u00e9reo\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A32ZIFj7qxY?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>In the images we see <strong>the lifting process using slings of two L-118<\/strong> 105 mm caliber light guns. Each one has a weight of 1,858 kilograms.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53246298716_eb4fe712a5_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The video also shows images of <strong>the lifting of a Uro VAMTAC tactical vehicle<\/strong>. Specifically, the one in the video looks like a VAMTAC S3 used as a platform for launching Mistral short-range surface-to-air missiles.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53246660859_b8c7780033_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The CH-47 is an excellent helicopter<\/strong> and a veteran model, but at the moment it does not have a substitute that is at its level. <strong>With its recent modernization to the Foxtrot variant, it still has a lot of useful life ahead of it.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The largest helicopters of the Spanish Armed Forces are the CH-47 Chinook of the Airmobile Forces of the Land Army (FAMET).<\/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":[11544],"tags":[1052,1047,1051,1048,10097,732,20795,10557,1602],"class_list":["post-53350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-army","tag-bheltra-v","tag-boeing-ch-47-chinook","tag-colmenar-viejo","tag-famet","tag-l-118-light-gun","tag-madrid","tag-parachute-brigade-almogavares-vi-bripac","tag-spanish-army","tag-uro-vamtac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53350"}],"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=53350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}