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Miscellaneous
Field Artillery Commamd Chief (GEMACA) takeover
H.E. Brigadier General Mr. Vicente Torres Vázquez took over the
baton as Head of the Field Artillery Command Headquarters during
a ceremony held in Conde de Gazola military base (San Andrés
de Rabanedo, León) on Tuesday 15th, September 2020.
The ceremony was presided by H.E. Lieutenant General Mr. José
Rodríguez García, Chief of the Land Forces.
In his introductory speech, Gen. Torres Vázquez highlighted the
strengths he provides as new Chief of the Field Artillery Command
(MACA) and the ones he will require from his personnel:
WILLINGNESS, LOYALTY, EXCELLENCE and ESPRIT DE CORPS.
Training and use
Technological advance in the training of Hawk operators.
This article deals with the possible development of a new simulation
software for the HAWK system and its implementation as part
of the current instruction and training system so as to achieve a
more complete training at a lower cost, and with less maintenance.
SHORAD capability in Spain compared with USA: On the
right way…
Low-altitude missile-defense SHORAD capability, which has
always being at disposal of our maneuver units, keeps its
unstoppable development in Spain while other countries, like the
USA, have lessen theirs in the last two decades.
Coastal Artillery Regiment number 4 (RACTA 4) in the exercise
GRUFLEX 20
As in previous years, exercise GRUFLEX 20 has been conducted
between February 24 and March 5, as a LIVEX training exercise.
The maneuvers were carried out in the waters of the Bay of Huelva
(Médano del Loro Shooting Range) and the Gulf of Cádiz, in the
Rota Naval Base, in the Sierra del Retín Training Field (Cádiz),
and in the facilities of the Cortijo de la Señuela (Lebrija). This type
of amphibious exercises serves the Navy units to train themselves
periodically in amphibious operations, with the participation of
the Coastal Artillery Regiment number 4 (RACTA 4).
3rd edition of the Land Targeting course.
This article describes how the 3rd Land Targeting Course was
developed in the Artillery School, during the months of September
and October 2020, according to the current curriculum.
On the one hand, we will see the process that was carried out
to teach and evaluate the theoretical contents distributed in different
modules during the distance phase, taking advantage
of the Defence Virtual Teaching Platform (CVCDEF). Then, we
will take a look at the "main ideas" extracted from each of the
lectures given by the teams of experts, who are assigned to the
targeting structures in the different land echelons, and who collaborated
in the course in its face-to-face phase. These phases
were developed in the San Francisco facilities (Targeting Lab and
Simulation Artillery Center) according to a teaching schedule
that allowed students to consolidate the theoretical knowledge
acquired in the online phase.