The roar of missile launch Harpoon it shook the waters of the Atlantic last Thursday and Friday. the warship Juan Carlos I, the frigates Mendez Núñez y Canary IslandsAV-8B planes from the 9th Squadron and SH-60F helicopters from the 10th Squadron participated in a joint exercise against a clear objective: to sink the former ship Martin Posadillo and the two former Alfa Indias training boats. Some maneuvers, called Sinex23, in which almost a thousand Navy personnel were involved and with which Spain is testing tactical training in realistic scenarios, although always in national waters. This year’s exercise was chaired by Felipe VI, who followed aboard the Mendez Núñez all maneuvers in the Canary Islands.
Although the Sinkex -which responds to an acronym of Sinking exercise by its acronym in English- is held every year, the Spanish Navy has finished this June a month of display of its strength and deterrent capacity in different events that have taken place in Spanish waters, two of them off the coast of Morocco .
On June 1, the King presided over a naval parade in Motril. Then, 2,000 troops displayed their strength in an exercise that began with a parade of the eleven flagships of the Spanish Armada. Among others, the amphibious ship Galicia participated, which two weeks later called at the port of Melillalast frontier with Morocco of NATO, to show its expeditionary force and its ability to work in natural disasters. His arrival coincided with Morocco’s failure to comply with the road map set for trade with Spain.
Parallel to these movements, between June 5 and 16, Flotex23 was carried out, the most important maneuvers of the Navy. In total, 21 ships, a submarine, 19 aircraft, six landing craft and 80 infantry vehicles participated. Marinawith around 5,000 troops deployed in the waters of the Balearic archipelago, in maneuvers that from an overhead view looked like a naval battle.
After successfully completing the largest maneuvers of the Spanish Navy, two national ships left for Portugal to participate in the Portuguese exercise in the Portuguese exercise Contex/Phibex 23. These are maneuvers carried out in the Atlantic Ocean, organized by Portugal and in which from June 19 to 30 eight Portuguese ships, two Spanish and as many from the Italian Navy Military participated. The maneuvers were part of the exercises planned by Euromarflor, a Multinational Maritime Force non-permanent created in 1995 by Spain, France, Italy and Portugal and that this year he commanded the Spanish Armada. Thus, the Captain of the Frigate Alfonso Moreno CitizensCommander of the frigate Santa Maria, exercised the tactical command at sea of the Euromarflor Operational Group. This international exercise overlapped with Sintex-23, the maneuvers that the King presided over on the 29th and in which he also had an active part, since Don Felipehow will the Princess of Asturias within a year, he received a training course in the Navy.