Behind the scenes on a Spanish F100 air defence frigate

Spain's ESPS Almirante Juan de Borbón is one of five Nato warships visiting Southampton's port before heading to take part in Exercise Steadfast Defender.
Before arriving in Hampshire ESPS Almirante Juan de Borbón, the flagship of Standing Nato Maritime Group 1, carried out gunnery exercises while travelling from Scotland.
The F-100 Frigate can perform both surface and antisubmarine warfare, as well as launching laser-guided hellfire missiles.
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[@comicmania2008]

Looks very impressive, I enjoyed this short tour of a Spanish navy warship! Interesting that you categorise the 5 inch gun in 'inches' rather than 'millimetres'.

[@Steamerbeen]

Pulgadas, they always do. Never even thought about it until you mentioned it. (Ex private contractor)

[@comicmania2008]

@@SteamerbeenThanks for reply. It was just an observation really, doesn't matter too much, but tank guns seem to be always in millimetres, 120mm common on most main battle tanks Like our Challenger II's. I'm sure I heard UK Royal Navy destroyers and frigates mention mm rather than inches these days. I love big guns, I'm ex forces.

[@hanovergreen4091]

30 miles is amazing for a 5"

[@Steamerbeen]

@@comicmania2008 thank you for your service! Un abrazo

[@willw8011]

This Spanish ship has the same 5 inch cannon as the US Navy's DDG and CG ships. All of the weapons systems on this ship are the same as a US Navy's DDG-51 class ship. Spain designed their own frigate size ship for these systems.

[@Fester_]

Very cool, thanks.

[@andrewhorsfall317]

Salute to our Spanish NATO Ally!

[@alanmcmillan6969]

Good to hear from our NATO friends!

[@IMDunn-oy9cd]

Very interesting. I was not expecting the VLS.

[@jester18000]

48 cells - impressive for a fairly small displacement frigate.

[@IMDunn-oy9cd]

@@jester18000 I dug a little deeper on it. It’s an AEGIS platform. It’s a very capable ship.

[@jester18000]

@IMDunn-oy9cd Ahhh roger that - agreed, thanks for the heads up!

[@Tbone1492]

The Spanish Empire returns🙏🇪🇸

[@6mojo]

I am now retired in the best country in the world…SPAIN! Beats Canada,where I lived since emigrating from the Uk in 1976.

[@digitalcommunist6335]

Nice 💪💪💪💪

[@TheLastCrumb.]

Relying heavily on the sheep! Must be a new tactic.

[@railworker8058]

Drake would sort it out.

[@cjjk9142]

Looks like the Spanish Armada finally reached England 😂😂

[@rubengravina3854]

Looks like finally there is a warship sailing without problems in England. 😎

[@Benito-lr8mz]

By the way the two NEW aircraft Carriers of 6.000 millions pounds of cost they are still broken lol😂

[@OggyGTA]

@@Benito-lr8mz Yes, still a few issues but at least we have them 🤣

[@noahway13]

Why don't they go to the Red Sea and get some actual live combat?

[@alvaromartinez8209]

Missiles are expensive, they probably do not have enough missiles to equip all 5 frigates, so they are not going to waste the few missiles they have in drones ordered at alibaba.

[@whya2ndaccount]

Surely this thing has more punch that just the Hellfires on the Helo?
Why not say "Spanish F-100 frigate armed with SM2"?????

[@OggyGTA]

Penguin anti-ship onboard too. Pretty potent.

[@hoiindustries1834]

Please allow beards in the army

[@true2u22]

All the saliors seen in the background of this video have their hands in their pockets! Poor show.

[@jaxric8518]

They are in the UK, so they check if they still have their wallet in their pocket.

[@cuthbertcollingwood6755]

Sorry it's a boat not a Sheep