2023-09-20 10:01:16
The delegations of the United States Navy and the Peruvian Navy have completed the final planning conference of the anti-submarine and anti-surface warfare exercise Siforex XIII – 2023 (Silent Forces Exercise, Ejercicio Fuerzas Silentes). The conference took place on September 13 at the facilities of the Command of the Peruvian Submarine Force (Callao).
Siforex is an exercise that is carried out annually with the objective of strengthening the capacities of the Armed participants in anti-submarine and anti-surface warfare. It also seeks to increase interoperability, cooperation and strengthen crew training. The protagonists of the exercise have been the Peruvian Navy (host); and the United States Navy, an institution that is interested in preserving and improving the skills of its crews to face the silent diesel-electric propulsion submarines.
Siforex XIII 2023
On this occasion, the planning conferences Siforex XIII – 2023 have been led by the commander of the Submarine Squadron of the Peruvian NavyCaptain Edgar Moreno Cedamanos. There has been the participation of officials from the Squadron Command Destroyers No. 40 and of the Headquarters of Operations of the Submarine Force Command of the United States Navy Atlantic. The commander of the FPeruvian Submarine Forcerear admiral Fernando Castillo Heredia was also present at the event.
It should be noted that on May 22, the Submarine Force Command celebrated its 40th anniversary. However, the diving tradition in Peru dates back to August 19, 1911, the date on which the submersibles were received. Ferre y Palacios in the French shipyards Scheneider you Chalons y On Saone. In addition, it also tells of a first approach to submarine technology in Peru in 1879, when the engineer Federico Blume carried out successful tests with a submersible of its own design that ultimately could not be used in the Guano War and Saltpeterand had to be sunk in January 1881.
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