{"id":55824,"date":"2024-05-11T21:32:39","date_gmt":"2024-05-11T19:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=55824"},"modified":"2024-05-16T23:48:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T21:48:12","slug":"the-armies-of-spain-and-portugal-train-together-with-armored-vehicles-and-live-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/05\/11\/the-armies-of-spain-and-portugal-train-together-with-armored-vehicles-and-live-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"The Armies of Spain and Portugal train together with armored vehicles and live fire"},"content":{"rendered":"

From April 29 to May 10, Portugal has hosted a major multinational exercise with several allied countries.<\/p>\n

Joint training of special operations units from Spain and Portugal<\/a><\/rel>
\n\u201cWe are Soldiers of Portugal\u201d, a video showing the materials of the Portuguese Army<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n

The exercise, called Orion 24, has brought together 289 vehicles and 1,400 soldiers<\/strong> (171 of them from other countries and the rest Portuguese) at the Santa Margarida Military Field<\/strong>, about 100 km northeast of Lisbon. These maneuvers have had the participation of the Portuguese Army and the Portuguese Air Force<\/strong>, as well as the Armies of Spain, Slovakia and Romania<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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In Santa Margarida, armored vehicles of the Portuguese Army have been seen such as the Leopard 2A6 battle tanks<\/strong> (below these lines), M-113 armored vehicles<\/strong> (in mortar-carrying, anti-tank versions and others), M-109 self-propelled howitzers and Pandur II armored transports<\/strong>, in addition to the Humvee and Arquus Ultrav M11D tactical vehicles, the latter operated by the ISTAR Intelligence, Reconnaissance and Target Acquisition Battalion.<\/p>\n

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Spain has contributed Leopard 2E battle tanks and ASCOD Pizarro infantry fighting vehicles<\/strong> to this exercise, as well as M-113 VCZ sapper combat vehicles.<\/p>\n

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The Portuguese Army has published two videos about this exercise.<\/strong> In the first, published on May 9 and which you can see below, you can see Spanish Leopard 2E and VCI Pizarro battle tanks:<\/strong><\/p>\n