{"id":57799,"date":"2024-11-18T23:32:33","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T22:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=57799"},"modified":"2025-11-18T10:32:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T09:32:00","slug":"the-spanish-participation-in-a-parade-in-latvia-with-soldiers-and-armoured-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/11\/18\/the-spanish-participation-in-a-parade-in-latvia-with-soldiers-and-armoured-vehicles\/","title":{"rendered":"The Spanish participation in a parade in Latvia with soldiers and armoured vehicles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every November 18, Latvians celebrate the Day of the Proclamation of the Republic of Latvia, the anniversary of its independence in 1918.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/10\/27\/the-tests-of-the-anti-tank-obstacles-that-latvia-has-placed-on-its-border-with-russia\/\">The tests of the anti-tank obstacles that Latvia has placed on its border with Russia<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/09\/26\/spanish-armored-vehicles-in-action-in-a-series-of-photos-from-the-latvian-army\/\">Spanish armored vehicles in action in a series of photos from the Latvian Army<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>For this reason, <strong>the Latvian Armed Forces are organizing a military parade in Riga, the capital of the country<\/strong>, in which they have the opportunity to show off their small but powerful and highly motivated Army. <strong>The Spanish Army has been participating in these parades for years<\/strong>, being deployed at the \u0100da\u017ei military base within the framework of the NATO eFP mission. <strong>You can watch the full video of this year's parade broadcast on Latvian Television here<\/strong> (the Spaniards appear at point 32:23, in the foot parade, and at point 1:04:11, in the vehicle parade):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Latvijas un sabiedroto bru\u0146otie sp\u0113ki milit\u0101raj\u0101 par\u0101d\u0113 godin\u0101s Latvijas valsts neatkar\u012bbu\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sMYID5tvFQA?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 addition to foot soldiers, the Spanish Army participated in the parade with <strong>two Leopard 2E tanks and one ASCOD Pizarro infantry fighting vehicle<\/strong>, which paraded in Riga preceded by our Italian allies (with Ariete tanks) and followed by our Polish allies (with PT-91 Twardy tanks). <strong>You can see here some images of the Spanish participation in this parade<\/strong> that have been published by the <a href=\"https:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/latvijas_armija\/albums\/72177720322010610\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Latvian Army<\/a> (photos by \u0112riks Kukutis) and the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EMADmde\/status\/1858604842689982723\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spanish Defence Staff<\/a>, as well as some screenshots from the Latvian Television video (click on the photos to enlarge them).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54149869089_03fab80cd2_h.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54149869089_af8ce20e1b_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54148692547_ef6aae34b0_h.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54148692547_02e1aee797_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54149833768_f169f9c81e_3k.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54149833768_268ff9ae6f_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54150001695_ef28d49a80_3k.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54150001695_24def64c9d_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54149869274_fe7035db18_3k.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54149869274_6d977dd8d0_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54149869304_f05968c914_4k.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54149869304_72b9162a1b_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54149869329_103dfc6d17_4k.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54149869329_7a965ee098_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54149833703_4ee704f89c_h.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54149833703_f29b03dd53_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54149540951_8896c076d8_h.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54149540951_edb8244bd9_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54149869269_d3fe570659_k.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54149869269_71a2df4721_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every November 18, Latvians celebrate the Day of the Proclamation of the Republic of Latvia, the anniversary of its independence in 1918.<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-57799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-army"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57799"}],"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=57799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}