 Furthermore, they had no artillery, barbed wire or professional staff officers.The "FARE" lacked gasoline, spare parts and trained pilots, and most of the Republican planes were 15-year-old Breguets, which had no nose guns and were slower than the Italian fighters, and obsolete Ni-52 fighters.On 2 August the Nationalist force left Seville and headed to the north towards Mérida and Badajoz.