{"id":58741,"date":"2025-02-18T22:09:50","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T21:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=58741"},"modified":"2025-02-25T21:51:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T20:51:52","slug":"an-excellent-greek-report-on-the-spanish-air-naval-landing-in-volos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/02\/18\/an-excellent-greek-report-on-the-spanish-air-naval-landing-in-volos\/","title":{"rendered":"An excellent Greek report on the Spanish air-naval landing in Volos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday we saw here <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/02\/14\/the-landing-of-the-spanish-marine-infantry-in-the-city-of-volos-in-greece\/\">images of the Spanish military landing in Volos<\/a>, Greece, during NATO's Steadfast Dart 25 exercise.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/02\/14\/the-landing-of-the-spanish-marine-infantry-in-the-city-of-volos-in-greece\/\">The landing of the Spanish Marine Infantry in the city of Volos, in Greece<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/02\/13\/steadfast-dart-25-a-joint-training-between-special-forces-from-spain-and-bulgaria\/\">Steadfast Dart 25, a joint training between special forces from Spain and Bulgaria<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><strong>This landing was organized by NATO's Maritime Component Command (MARCOM)<\/strong> and included the participation of the Spanish Navy's Expeditionary Combat Group (GCE) D\u00e9dalo, led by the aircraft carrier \"Juan Carlos I\" L-61. On Saturday, the Greek Youtube channel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@11AviationVideos\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">11Aviation Videos<\/a> <strong>published an excellent 23-minute video of this exercise<\/strong>, with spectacular images of the Spanish participation in it:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Exercise Steadfast Dart 2025: NATO ARF in Action\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8QNGph2r550?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 video is a great summary of this air-naval exercise. You can see some screenshots here. In the first one we see <strong>a Greek Army AH-64 Apache attack helicopter<\/strong> flying over the Volos beach where the landing took place. <strong>On the beach we see two Spanish Marines<\/strong>, signalling to their companions to indicate the landing points.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54336557464_12cc645d43_3k.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54336557464_fca36417ab_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Two SH-60 Seahawk helicopters of the Spanish Navy<\/strong> disembarking Marines in Volor using the fast rope technique. The arrival of the helicopters in the video looks like a scene from a movie.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54336760200_d2e1c2b08b_3k.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54336760200_07b2fed21e_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Spanish Navy LCM-1E landing craft<\/strong> transporting two VAMTAC ST-5 tactical vehicles of the Tercio de Armada to the Greek beach.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54336338426_fe2674c5bc_3k.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54336338426_0698874f1b_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>An EAV-8B+ Harrier II Plus EAV fighter from the Spanish Navy's 9th Squadron<\/strong> hovering over Volos beach. The Greek video includes some great shots of the two Spanish fighters that took part in this exercise.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54336569308_f0e94c62d8_3k.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54336569308_a739745672_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday we saw here images of the Spanish military landing in Volos, Greece, during NATO&#8217;s Steadfast Dart 25 exercise.<\/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":[19534,11545],"tags":[11229,1076,1047,23822,23802,18419,1111,1859,12858,10669,23743,1602,23797],"class_list":["post-58741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-portada-eng","category-navy","tag-aircraft-carrier-juan-carlos-i-l61","tag-boeing-ah-64-apache","tag-boeing-ch-47-chinook","tag-grece","tag-greek-army","tag-landing-craft-lcm-1e","tag-mcdonnell-douglas-eav-8b-harrier-ii","tag-sikorsky-sh-60-seahawk","tag-spanish-marine-infantry","tag-spanish-navy","tag-steadfast-dart-25","tag-uro-vamtac","tag-volos"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-12 02:22:12","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\/58741","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=58741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}