España envía su mejor fragata a Chipre: así funciona la F-105 Cristóbal Colón

🚢 Spain has just sent its most advanced frigate to the eastern Mediterranean to protect Cyprus from Iranian attacks. In this video, I explain EVERYTHING about the F-105 Cristóbal Colón: what it is, how it works, what weaponry it carries, and why its presence in this crisis changes the defensive landscape of Europe. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 IN THIS VIDEO: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 00:00 – The Iranian attack on Cyprus: what happened 01:50 – Why Spain is involved in this crisis 04:30 – What is the frigate Cristóbal Colón? F-105 06:15 – The Aegis system and the SPY-1D radar explained 07:30 – Armament: SM-2, ESSM, Harpoon missiles and more 08:30 – The mission: from the Baltic to the Mediterranean 10:00 – The complete naval group: Charles de Gaulle, Greece, Italy 12:00 – Spain's political position: defense yes, attack no 13:30 – The Spanish Patriot in Turkey and the Iranian missile shot down 15:30 – Why this frigate is the right piece for this threat 18:00 – Final reflection: Is a real European defense being born? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🗞️ CONTEXT (today's news, March 5, 2026): ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ On Monday, March 2, an Iranian drone crashed into the British base of Akrotiri in Cyprus. In response, France activated the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, and Spain confirmed the deployment of the frigate F-105 Cristóbal Colón, which had already been integrated into the French naval group in the Baltic Sea since March 3. The group will arrive in Crete on March 10. Italy and the Netherlands are also joining the European deployment. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔧 F-105 TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ▸ Class: Álvaro de Bazán (F-100) · Unit: F-105 ▸ Builder: Navantia, Ferrol (Spain) ▸ Launched: 2010 · Commissioned: 2012 ▸ Length: 146.7 m · Displacement: 6,391 t ▸ Speed: 28.5 knots · Range: 4,500 nautical miles ▸ Combat System: Aegis Baseline V ▸ Radar: AN/SPY-1D (detection up to 500 km, 90 simultaneous targets) ▸ Missiles: SM-2, ESSM (48-cell Mk-41 VLS), Harpoon anti-ship missile ▸ Armament: 127mm Mk-45 gun, 2 x 25mm machine guns ▸ ASW: Mk-46 torpedoes, SH-60B Seahawk helicopter ▸ Crew: 205-234 Military ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 SOURCES: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ▸ Spanish Ministry of Defense – Official Statement 05/03/2026 ▸ Infodefensa.com – F-105 Technical Analysis ▸ Spanish Navy – armada.defensa.gob.es ▸ Wikipedia ES – Christopher Columbus (F-105) ▸ Naval Forum – F-105 technical visit ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚠️ NOTICE: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ This channel is for historical dissemination and military. All content is based on official public sources. It does not represent any political or institutional position. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔 Subscribe for the next video: The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━