'Tucán' Anti-aircraft Defense Unit is trained in a beta exercise in Fuerteventura Island

 I/94 Anti-Aircraft Artillery Group has created "Tucán" Anti-aircraft Defense Unit in order to perform a "beta" kind training exercise at the Manoeuvres and Shooting Field (CMT in Spanish) of Pájara, in Fuerteventura Island, from the 7th to the 11th of May.

The environment of the exercise was based on an Army Organic Air Defense exercise (AOAD) in hybrid conditions, with a conventional and asymmetric enemy, who included aircrafts, helicopters and non-conventional land attacks with Improvised Explosive Devices (IED). It also included, as part of the emerging threats in the current difficult scenes, the use of drones with explosive charges.

The exercise was developed following a scheme coming from a system of injection of events and incidences (MEL-MIL), carried out during the planning phase, and included the training of capacities such as naval projection, Reception, Staging, Onward Movement (RSOM), deployment, reaction towards non-conventional-attacks, anti-aircraft combat and transport by helicopters with Mistral shooting platform, among others.

For that, the exercise was attended, as part of the UDAA, by the Signals Section of the UDAA's Command Post belonging of the General Staff's Battalion belonging to the 16th "Canarias" Brigade, as well as by the support of a Light Protected Infantry Section, belonging to the 9th "Soria" Light Infantry Regiment, which was incorporated as UDAA Protection Force, and by two HU-18 helicopters, belonging to the 6th Manoeuvres Helicopters Battalion, which took both, enemy and comrade roles. The ABRD Section (unmanned target aircrafts) of the  I/94 Anti-aircraft Artillery Group achieved the drone threats, and a platoon of artillery men of the  I/94 GAAA constituted the Team of non-conventional Opposition Force.