{"id":57303,"date":"2024-10-03T22:03:13","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T20:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=57303"},"modified":"2025-10-03T00:14:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T22:14:25","slug":"spanish-nh-90-helicopters-flying-over-scotland-with-british-apache-guardians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/10\/03\/spanish-nh-90-helicopters-flying-over-scotland-with-british-apache-guardians\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish NH-90 helicopters flying over Scotland with British Apache Guardians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Between 9 and 29 September, the Spanish and British armies carried out a joint exercise in Scotland.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/09\/20\/ch-47f-chinook-helicopter-meeting-from-spain-canada-usa-and-the-netherlands\/\">Meeting of CH-47F Chinook helicopters from Spain, Canada, the USA and Netherlands<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/05\/13\/the-deployment-of-military-helicopters-from-spain-and-other-allied-countries-in-romania\/\">The deployment of military helicopters from Spain and other allied countries in Romania<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>The exercise, called Talon Highlander, has included the participation of <strong>AH-64E Apache Guardian attack helicopters<\/strong> (the most modern version of this American aircraft) from the 3rd Regiment of the British Army Air Corps (AAC) and <strong>NH-90 Sarrio transport helicopters<\/strong> from the III Manoeuvre Helicopter Battalion (BHELMA III) of the Spanish Army Air Forces (FAMET).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54040690608_991aac4d4e_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Spanish Army <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EjercitoTierra\/status\/1841359147037540845\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has announced<\/a> that these exercises have been focused on <em>\"<strong>the integration and preparation of air units within the Allied Reaction Force<\/strong>\"<\/em> (ARF) of NATO. <em>\"They have contributed to a multinational force, capable of responding quickly to any threat.\"<\/em> <strong>The Spanish Army has released this video of the exercise:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u00a1Finaliza el ejercicio TALON HIGHLANDER en #Escocia! \ud83d\ude81 #FAMET\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IQ-CsBI-nTQ?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>Also, on September 20, British YouTube channel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@chinneylowfly\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chinneylowfly<\/a> posted this video showing <strong>two Spanish NH-90s (ET 803 and ET 813) escorted by two British AH-64E Apache Guardians<\/strong> landing and then taking off in fog at Sleap airfield in Shrewsbury, England:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Two Rare Spanish NH90 Helicopters Visit Sleap Airfield\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xUxN_XmOoNk?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>Yesterday, the Army published <a href=\"https:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/ejercitodetierra\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">its Flickr channel<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/ejercitodetierra\/54036187877\/in\/photostream\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">several photos<\/a> of Spain's participation in this exercise. On September 12, the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FUTER_ET\/status\/1834256984276680991\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terrestrial Force (FUTER)<\/a> published some more photos. You can see them all below.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54040765149_929de584cd_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Spanish FAMET airmen with the flags of Spain and La Rioja<\/strong> (BHELMA III is based in Agoncillo, in that Spanish region). Behind them we see <b>two Spanish NH-90s and two AgustaWestland AW159 Wildcats from the 1st AAC Regiment<\/b>, a unit that has also taken part in this exercise.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54039574197_e90cde1a51_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Spanish FAMET airman and several British soldiers<\/strong> next to the rear ramp of a FAMET NH-90.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54039574212_9d188c981d_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Spanish NH-90 Caiman and a British AH-64E Apache Guardian.<\/strong> The latter carries two CRV7 rocket launchers on its external mounts and two external fuel tanks.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54040765214_f40c492362_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Two images of a British AH-64E and a Spanish NH-90 flying over a lake,<\/strong> possibly in the Scottish Highlands.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54040438821_a411f5e560_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the following photo, <strong>a Spanish NH-90 Caiman and a British AH-64E Apache Guardian on the ground<\/strong>. The image allows us to see the attack helicopter's 30 mm M230 cannon, located under its cockpit.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54040765139_8e0dcafa82_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between 9 and 29 September, the Spanish and British armies carried out a joint exercise in Scotland.<\/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":[22815,22812,22814,8398,1076,9997,22811,14883,1048,8245,12796,22813,10557,22816,10678],"class_list":["post-57303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-army","tag-1-regiment-aac","tag-3-regiment-aac","tag-agustawestland-aw159-wildcat","tag-batallon-de-helicopteros-de-maniobra-iii-bhelma-iii","tag-boeing-ah-64-apache","tag-british-army","tag-british-army-air-corps","tag-england","tag-famet","tag-nhindustries-nh90","tag-scotland","tag-sleap-airfield","tag-spanish-army","tag-talon-highlander","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57303"}],"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=57303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}