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Abstract 116 MEMORIAL ARTILLERíA, nº 175/2 - Diciembre de 2019 Instruction and Use ANTIAIRCRAFT ARTILLERY IN THE SPANISH ARMY Since the attack to the Twin Towers in New York on September 11, 2001, world order in terms of security and airspace control has changed forever. Menaces have increased in number at the same pace than their harmfulness capacity along with the new technologies, which are adapted to new intelligent weapon sys-tems and platforms. Among these technologies, digitalization has primarily enabled any type of attack to our Defense. Industry has also become a target for this hazard, as it can be proved by the drone attack to the Saudi refinery on September 14, 2019. FALSE-FLAG OPERATIONS IN CYBERSPACE Cyberspace is a new theatre where rules do not exist as so and world powers are making profit from the concealment and ano-nymity it provides, as well as from the weaknesses it offers before their opponents. FIVE-YEAR DEPLOYMENT OF UDAA PATRIOT IN TURKEY The Anti Aircraft Defense Unit Patriot deployed to Adana (Turkey) has been there for five years now. Comprised of 150 military peo-ple, it meets the needs of Spain and its NATO allies . It achieved its full operational capacity in January 2015 within the frame-work of “Active Fence” operation, when Spain transferred its au-thority to the NATO operational structure. Technical Area and Research FORWARD-OBSERVER VEHICLES (FOV) Observation teams are the eyes of Field Artillery. They engage the targets in their action zone, send the calls for fire and adjust fire if necessary. They also provide general observation in the battle-field. During WWII, Canadian soldiers used to say: “Army consists of a spotter with a radio to call for artillery and all the others being his bodyguards” GERMAN SUB-CALIBRATED AMMUNITION IN WWII. ITS CON-TRIBUTION TO THE MODERN PROJECTILES. Amongst all the ammunitions and weapons experimented and developed by the Germans during WWII, sub-calibrated projec-tiles stand out from the others. The western armies have devel-oped these ammunitions and they are a reality today. They are part of the crew of AFVs as well as those of Field and Naval artil-lery units. The need for increasing the range led to enlarging the barrels and the capacity of the chambers to accommodate bigger loads. This technology meets its limits in the weight of the guns so new ideas had to be considered: “Being able to build a projectile which could resist the same impact with the standard load but which could reduce its caliber at the moment of leaving the barrel, thus improving its aerodynamics, speed and range”. REMINDING THE GAXI The irruption of computing means new help for information pro-cessing. Artillery units make use of these new outputs to speed up the resolution of shooting, topography and Command and Control calculations. This new technology is used to automate the tasks of an Artillery unit. This article tells the story of the “GAXI” system. Artillerymen from the Field Artillery Group XI applied the advantages supplied by the first PCs to shooting calculation and it was the birth of the GAXI (acronym for Grupo de Artillería XI) . de


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