The rain of recent weeks gave Motril a breather, where after noon the clear skies cheered up the atmosphere on its beach, something that favored the arrival of onlookers, beach chair and umbrella in hand, to follow the aeronaval magazine with which the Armed Forces began their big day. At five in the afternoon the King appeared on the Puente del Furor in the uniform of a general admiral of the Navy. Once the Maritime Action Ship was in place, an impressive parade of the Navy’s flagships began.
Four Eurofighter fighters from the 11th Wing of the Moreno Air Base opened the air parade, which combined the passage of fleets of aircraft with ships. The aircraft carrier Juan Carlos I, the amphibious ships Castilla y Galicia, the frigates F100 Cristóbal Colón and Almirante Juan de Borbón, the F80 Victoria, Santa María – named after the ship with which Christopher Columbus discovered America – and the Canary Islands and the carbines Duero and Tambre. All of them, with more than 2,000 soldiers on board, paid their respects to the King before the expectation of the public concentrated on the beach.
The curious looked both at the sea and at the sky, where in addition to the fighters, a search and rescue helicopter flew along with another from the Civil Guard or a Chinook. But what amused the attendees the most, many of them dressed in merchandising from the three Armies, was the dynamic demonstration that followed on the Poniente beach.
There was a PAPEA paratrooper jump in charge of eight paratroopers, who jumped in two batches of four, performing colorful maneuvers and acrobatics in the air. It was followed by an exhibition of helicopters by the ASPA Patrol, which made movements such as loopings or formations turning clockwise.
After that, a group of the Army carried out an exercise on the beach to open a breach by sappers in a supposed minefield to make way for a Leopard, the Spanish tank. All in charge of the Guzmán el Bueno brigade. But what aroused the most popular ovation was the amphibious demonstration by soldiers from the Tercio of the Marine Corps and two AV8 Harriers from the Aeronaves Squadron, who closed the exhibition by flying at low altitude.
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