Princess Leonor will participate in military exercises with the Navy in waters near Spain | Spain

The concept and importance of deterrence not only cups the high diplomacy and policy of the EU and NATO. He has also penetrated the Palacio de la Zarzuela. For the first time, Princess Leonor It will participate in a real high intensity exercise to demonstrate the ability of the Navy in the control and defense of the territory against threats that become more real. After five months of journey By America on the ship-school Juan Sebastián Elcanothe heiress will embark on June 14 on the frigate Blas de Lezo to immediately join the second phase of the deterrence of deterrence and defense Daédalo 25 in Atlantic waters and, subsequently, of the Western Mediterranean.

Guardiamarina Borbón Ortiz continues her formation with the Navy, which began last summer at the Marín Naval School (Pontevedra) and continued with her instruction cruise on board the imposing Juan Sebastián Elcanothat in his journey through America has led him to penetrate in Brazil, Uruguay, Chile, Peru, Panama, Colombia, Dominican Republic and the United States. While the rest of their promotion navigate in Elcano Back to Spain, the heiress will spend a month more embarked on the Blas de Lezo And it opens in style, with one of the most relevant and impressive exercises in which the Navy, under the command of the Defense Staff (EMAD) and coordinated by the operations command (Mops) presumes military muscle. And also, with real fire. In fact, one of the exercises that the princess will witness is the sinking of a ship in the middle of the sea, ensures a high source of the Navy.

Portaeroneaves, frigates, amphibious landing boats, marine infantry and even Isaac Peralthe submarine of the S-80 series, the last pride not only of the Navy, but of the Spanish Defense Industry. The naval deployment Dédalo 25 has taken place, in its first phase (at the beginning of the year), in the waters of the central and eastern Mediterranean – italia, Greece, Turkey -, and in this second phase, in which the future head of the Armed Forces will participate, the stage will first be the Atlantic and then the Western Mediterranean. The third phase, scheduled for the end of summer, has not yet been planned although it can be thought, for past experiences, that is in waters of northern Europe.

Navy sources say that the exercise in which the Bourbon Guardian will participate was scheduled for a long time and that has coincided with the incorporation of the princess into the frigate. « Dédalo 25 has not planned depending on the princess’s agenda, » they say. In fact, as the commander of Elcano, Luis Carreras-Pressas, Upon arrival in New York, the last scale in America of Elcano: « Naval formation includes a training phase in other units of the fleet, » he explained in relation to the princess’s stay in the Blas de Lezo.

Leonor follows, then, the same line of training his father had, King Felipe VI. After your instruction cruise in Elcano In the 80s, the then prince embarked on the frigate Asturias to tour a part of the old continent. He visited ports in France, in Germany, in the Netherlands, in the United Kingdom … and took the opportunity to visit relatives, such as Queen Elizabeth II of England, with whom he had lunch at the Windsor Palace.

But the case of Princess Leonor is different. His entry into the academies of the Armed Forces has coincided with a geopolitical context of the most turbulent in Europe. With an open war in Ukraine and the relationship between Washington and Brussels more tense than ever, the EU partners and allies of NATO, including Spain, have been forced to raise their guard and undertake an effort in deterrence ever seen from the cold war. And the future Head of the State and Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, immersed in a military exercise with real fire, will witness the first row of the times.