{"id":64780,"date":"2026-05-01T06:09:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T04:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=64780"},"modified":"2026-05-07T23:44:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T21:44:43","slug":"the-spanish-navy-shows-its-membership-in-a-select-club-of-five-nato-navies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/05\/01\/the-spanish-navy-shows-its-membership-in-a-select-club-of-five-nato-navies\/","title":{"rendered":"The Spanish Navy shows its membership in a select club of five NATO navies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Founded in the 15th century, the Spanish Navy is one of the oldest and best-equipped navies in the world.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/04\/06\/a-deployment-of-us-mh-60r-helicopters-on-the-spanish-ship-juan-carlos-i\/\">A deployment of US MH-60R helicopters on the Spanish ship 'Juan Carlos I'<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/03\/31\/images-of-the-irish-naval-service-and-the-spanish-navy-together-in-the-irish-sea\/\">Images of the Irish Naval Service and the Spanish Navy together in the Irish Sea<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>With over 90 ships and more than 180 auxiliary vessels, <strong>the Spanish Navy belongs to a select group of navies: those with blue-water fleets<\/strong>, capable of projecting their power far from their coasts and possessing a naval infantry force and air support for their operations. <strong>This Thursday, the Spanish Navy released a video explaining this capability:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Proyecci\u00f3n del Poder Naval.\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/11hMnSFvj0c?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>As the video points out, <strong>currently only five NATO countries have full naval power projection capabilities: the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, and Spain.<\/strong> A sixth country, Turkey, is in an advanced stage of transitioning from so-called green-water fleets (those dedicated to protecting its coastline) to blue-water fleets.<\/p>\n<p>If I recently pointed out here <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/04\/28\/the-communication-problems-that-still-exist-in-the-spanish-armed-forces\/\">the communication problems of our Armed Forces<\/a>, I must say that <strong>this video from the Spanish Navy is an example of high-quality communication:<\/strong> excellent graphics, well-chosen music, and 4K resolution. This is the way forward. You can see some screenshots from the video here.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55241445676_0381c71a1a_o.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55241445676_62d7aa9b22_z.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The frigate \"Reina Sof\u00eda\" F-84<\/strong>, of the Santa Mar\u00eda F-80 class, is one of the oldest escort vessels in the Spanish Navy. The F-80s will be replaced by the new Bonifaz F-110 class frigates.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55240539577_fa2c27b94b_o.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55240539577_3dcdc89661_z.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>An impressive squadron made up of ships from the Spanish Navy and other countries.<\/strong> Among the Spanish ships we see the submarine \"Galerna\" S-71, the amphibious assault ships \"Galicia\" L-51 and \"Castilla\" L-52, the aircraft carrier \"Juan Carlos I\" L-61 (flagship of the Spanish Navy), the combat supply ship \"Cantabria\" A-15, two \"\u00c1lvaro de Baz\u00e1n\" class frigates F-100, three \"Santa Mar\u00eda\" class frigates F-80, a \"Meteoro\" class maritime action vessel and two \"Segura\" class minehunters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55241445671_d87e44d557_o.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55241445671_b7d9858167_z.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>An LCM-1E Landing Craft<\/strong> transporting three Uro VAMTAC ST-5 tactical vehicles of the Marine Corps.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55241589023_4c1049a213_o.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55241589023_4d2f482c2c_z.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Two 8x8 MOWAG Piranha IIIC armored vehicles<\/strong> of the Tercio de Armada (TEAR), the expeditionary force of the Spanish Marine Infantry.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55241846080_8e7892c676_o.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55241846080_96b38a8402_z.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Some of the aircraft of the Spanish Navy's Air Wing (FLOAN).<\/strong> Specifically, we see McDonnell Douglas EAV-8B+ Harrier II fighters from the 9th Squadron and Sikorsky SH-60F Seahawk tactical transport helicopters from the 10th Squadron.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Founded in the 15th century, the Spanish Navy is one of the oldest and best-equipped navies in 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":[19534,11545],"tags":[19329,8303,2245,11229,18531,12010,17543,17335,18275,17339,18419,1111,24024,1859,12858,10669,26909,6842,1602],"class_list":["post-64780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-portada-eng","category-navy","tag-santa-maria-class","tag-10a-escuadrilla","tag-9-escuadrilla","tag-aircraft-carrier-juan-carlos-i-l61","tag-aircraft-fleet-of-the-spanish-navy-floan","tag-alvaro-de-bazan-f100-class-frigate","tag-amphibious-assault-ship-castilla-l-52","tag-amphibious-assault-ship-galicia-l-51","tag-combat-supply-ship-a-15-cantabria","tag-frigate-reina-sofia-f-84","tag-landing-craft-lcm-1e","tag-mcdonnell-douglas-eav-8b-harrier-ii","tag-segura-class","tag-sikorsky-sh-60-seahawk","tag-spanish-marine-infantry","tag-spanish-navy","tag-submarine-galerna-s-71","tag-tercio-de-armada-tear","tag-uro-vamtac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64780","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=64780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}