Minister of Defense Vivianne Blanlot welcomed a new addition this week to Chile’s submarine fleet at the port city of Cartagena in southern Spain. The “Carrera,” the second of two Scorpion model units, will be the first to carry the name of illustrious Jose Miguel Carrera, a general considered to be one Chile’s founding forefathers.
Blanlot arrived Wednesday in Madrid for the ceremony, accompanied by Ambassador Osvaldo Puccio and Admiral Rodolfo Codina. She was met by Spain’s Minister of Defense Jose Antonio Alonso Suarez, and subsequently received by King Juan Carlos at the national palace.
The representatives from both countries agreed to work together on defense issues, such as the modernization of the military, participation in “Operations of Peace,” and the organic reconstruction of their respective ministries.
Blanlot and her party then traveled to Cartagena, where they received the SS-2 “Carrera,” constructed jointly with the SS-1 “O’Higgens,” baptized on November 24, 2005. Weighing 1,600 tons, it is the seventeenth submarine the Chilean Armada has acquired since 1917.
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