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Electronic warfare support (ES) is a subdivision of EW involving actions taken by an operational commander or operator to detect, intercept, identify, locate, and/or localize sources of intended and unintended radiated electromagnetic (EM) energy.
Pegaso BMRs are used by Spanish, Egyptian, Saudi Arabian, Moroccan and Peruvian Armies. The Spanish Army BMRs (or BMR-600) have been instrumental in the performance of Spanish forces in international interventions in Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq and Lebanon. In the last few years, all of them had their original Pegaso engines replaced by new ...
While at War (Spanish: Mientras dure la guerra) is a 2019 Spanish-Argentine [1] historical drama film directed by Alejandro Amenábar. [2] [3] Set in 1936, during the Spanish Civil War, the plot tracks the plight of philosopher and writer Miguel de Unamuno (performed by Karra Elejalde) in Salamanca, a city controlled by the Rebel faction.
The Mexican Dirty War (Spanish: Guerra sucia) was the Mexican theater of the Cold War, an internal conflict from the 1960s to the 1980s between the Mexican Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)-ruled government under the presidencies of Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, Luis Echeverría, and José López Portillo, which were backed by the U.S. government, and left-wing student and guerrilla groups.
The Spanish Armed Forces have a number of mottoes that show the spirit and virtues of the units that form them. The motto of the Armed Forces, common yet unofficial, is Todo por la patria (Spanish for "Everything for the Motherland"). Notice that it is not required that the units listed here keep active, only their belonging to the Spanish ...
1,000–7,000 total deaths [8] The Escambray rebellion was an armed conflict from 1959 to 1965 in the Escambray Mountains during which several insurgent groups fought against the Cuban government led by Fidel Castro. The military operation against the rebellion was called the Struggle Against Bandits (Spanish: Lucha Contra Bandidos, or LCB) by ...
The Fusil Automático Doble (English: Double Automatic Rifle) is a Peruvian bullpup assault rifle designed by Peruvian arms designer Salomón Braga Lozo and manufactured by SIMA Electrónica. Due to its simplicity and light weight, it is used in the Peruvian Army as a secondary weapon. The country was originally intending on purchasing 580,000 ...
Dominican Civil War. American soldiers engaged in a firefight while a child takes cover under a jeep for protection in Santo Domingo on May 5, 1965. The Inter-American Peace Force (IAPF) was designed as a peacekeeping force and thus is not considered a war participant. The Dominican Civil War (Spanish: Guerra Civil Dominicana), also known as ...