{"id":56612,"date":"2024-07-24T22:00:44","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T20:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=56612"},"modified":"2026-07-24T00:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T22:52:10","slug":"the-most-distant-deployment-of-the-spanish-air-force-in-australia-and-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/07\/24\/the-most-distant-deployment-of-the-spanish-air-force-in-australia-and-new-zealand\/","title":{"rendered":"The most distant deployment of the Spanish Air Force in Australia and New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The major Pacific Skies deployment is taking the Air Forces of Germany, Spain and France around the world.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/07\/16\/an-excellent-report-from-the-spanish-air-force-about-its-deployment-in-alaska\/\">An excellent report from the Spanish Air Force about its deployment in Alaska<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/06\/27\/pacific-skies-the-largest-aerial-deployment-of-the-spanish-air-force-in-decades\/\">Pacific Skies, the largest aerial deployment of the Spanish Air Force in decades<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>After <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/06\/27\/pacific-skies-the-largest-aerial-deployment-of-the-spanish-air-force-in-decades\/\">the initial stopover in Canada<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/07\/16\/an-excellent-report-from-the-spanish-air-force-about-its-deployment-in-alaska\/\">its passage through Alaska<\/a>, where European aviators participated in the Arctic Defender exercise together with the US Air Force, <strong>the Pacific deployment Skies arrived in Japan and finally in Australia and New Zealand<\/strong>, the most distant from the deployments that Spanish military aviation has made in its entire history.<\/p>\n<p>In Australia, airmen have met with a large aviation community at the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) base in Darwin, next to the most populated city in the Northern Territory, for the exercise Pitch Black. This Monday, <strong>the RAAF dedicated a video to the arrival of the airmen from Germany, Spain and France<\/strong>, in which we can see Captain Fernando Rojas Sevillano, of the Air Force, making some statements in English. Some images of Spanish Eurofighters also appear:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Exercise Pitch Black 24 | Pacific Skies 24 Arrival\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/szyZlHZYm5U?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 this video from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@aviationphotographydigest\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aviation Photography Digest<\/a> we can see <strong>the arrival in Darwin of Pacific Skies deployment aviators:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pacific Skies contingent arrives in Darwin for Pitch Black 24\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DA-086L7bV0?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 Australian Department of Defense has published <a href=\"https:\/\/images.defence.gov.au\/assets\/Home\/Search?Query=%3Fq%3DS20240572&Type=HomepageAlbum&AlbumName=S20240572\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\" _blank\">a series of photos from this exercise<\/a>, in which we can see <strong>some images of the Spanish aircraft upon their arrival at Darwin Air Base<\/strong>, specifically Eurofighters from the 11th Wings and 14.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53879076383_e72d93dced_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53879251890_75cd954cc3_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53879076258_7b20d6bb18_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53877939657_f627799db1_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In addition, the Australian Department of Defense has published these photos of <strong>a formation flight of fighter aircraft from nine different countries, including Spain<\/strong>, during the Pitch Black exercise. The formation is led by <strong>a RAAF F-35A Lightning II, followed on its right by a Spanish Eurofighter<\/strong> and on its left by a Thai JAS-39D Gripen. We can also see an F-15K Slam Eagle (South Korean version of the F-15E), an Indonesian F-16, an Italian F-35, a Malaysian F\/A-18D Hornet, a British Eurofighter and an F-22A Raptor from the USAF.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53879076343_b1aea1a000_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53879076318_5459607240_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53879251865_6411e13ed3_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53879182659_1e244d9617_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53879076308_0f32b8a12d_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In addition, <strong>three A400M Atlas (one German, one Spanish and one French) arrived in New Zealand this tuesday<\/strong>, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzdf.mil.nz\/media-centre\/news\/european-air-forces-flying-in-for-new-zealand-visit\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a visit to Ohakea Air Base<\/a>, on the Island North. The Spanish delegation has had the participation of General Mandonado, from the Air Combat Command (MACOM). <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EjercitoAire\/status\/1815991491744923923\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Air Force has published the photos of this visit today<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53878840926_4a9882e11a_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53879182599_050880ede7_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53878840906_3d11e56165_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53879182604_96e19188a2_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53878840966_220d3544d0_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is a historic moment for Spanish military aviation, since <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EjercitoAire\/status\/1815901227009315131\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">as the Army of the Aire<\/a>, <strong>it is the first time that a Spanish A400M lands in New Zealand<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photos: Australian Department of Defence \/ Ej\u00e9rcito del Aire.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The major Pacific Skies deployment is taking the Air Forces of Germany, Spain and France around the world.<\/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":[19536,11546],"tags":[8244,1247,3544,5923,3193,1248,12442,21759,21295,22339,21835,22337,8141],"class_list":["post-56612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-military-aviation","tag-airbus-a400m-atlas","tag-ala-11","tag-ala-14","tag-ala-31","tag-australia","tag-eurofighter-typhoon","tag-new-zealand","tag-north-island-of-new-zealand","tag-northern-territory","tag-ohakea-air-base","tag-pacific-skies-2024","tag-raaf-base-darwin","tag-royal-australian-air-force-raaf"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-12 00:13:22","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\/56612","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=56612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}