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Technique and Research
Needs for the Semi-Automatic Anti-Aircraft Artillery Operations
Centers (COAAAS). Guarantee of Success for FORCE 2035.
This article aims, from the point of view of tactical operators, to
identify which elements would be necessary to technologically
train the next evolution of the Semi-Automatic Anti-Aircraft Artillery
Operations Centers (COAAAS) owned by the anti-aircraft
artillery units of our country. Undoubtedly, they are one of the
main command and control elements, as well as essential components
of air defense units. The future COAAAS for Force 2035
will therefore be a fundamental part in anti-aircraft defense, and
will also be one of the great challenges for anti-aircraft artillery in
the coming years.
History and Traditions
80th anniversary of the explosion of the “Pinar de Antequera”
amunitions dump.
This year marks the eightieth anniversary of one of the most
serious events in modern history, which occurred in the province
of Valladolid and which is less known in Spain due to the scant
echo that it had at that time, the explosion of the ammunitions
dump number 4 in the Pinar de Antequera (Valladolid). In this
event there were 18 deaths, 98 missing and 63 injured, in addition
to 12 minor injuries. In total we can speak of 191 victims,
mostly from the Artillery Park and the Artillery arsenal.
From the Academy of Mathematics of Barcelona to the
School of Segovia.
During the 18th century, the theoretical training for officers was
carried out mainly at the Royal Military Academy of Mathematics
of Barcelona, which was run by the engineering corps. The Artillery
Directorate wanted to have its own facilities, and they tried
it in 1723 and later in 1752. But the approach of these centers
was not very different from that of the Barcelona Academy, and
their performance was inferior. Eventually, in 1764, Carlos the
Third founded the Royal Military School for Artillery Cadets, a
more comprehensive and demanding center than the Barcelona
Academy which has proved very effective.
Artillerymen in the colonization of Guinea (1859-1869).
In 1858, the approval of the first organic statute of the colony
supposed a new administrative and military organization of the
Spanish territories of the Gulf of Guinea. During the ten years
of validity of this decree, several officers of the Artillery branch
were assigned to these occupations. Their activity and tasks are
studied in this work, also relating them to the vicissitudes experienced
in the colony during this period.