Comment re Scud Attack. The NATO Patriot missile bases in Turkey are prepared to prevent attacks on southern Turkey. NATO knows when a missile is fired in Syria, knows the trajectory and can react accordingly within their range. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Information from the press briefing during installation of the Patriots 23 Jan. 2013 Press briefing on the deployment of Patriot Missiles to Turkey by NATO Spokesperson Oana Lungescu and Brigadier General Gary Deakin, Director of SHAPE Comprehensive Crisis and Operations Management Center (CCOMC) And we also stood up the NATO communications agencies to provide the CIS, the Communications Information System support to the Patriots so they could plug into the NATO Command and Control network... And so The Netherlands are going to deploy to Adana. The Germans are going to deploy to Kahramanmaras—apologies for the mispronunciation—and the U.S. are going to deploy to Gaziantep... So a Patriot battery has got four main elements. Its a multi-function radar, which performs search identification and tracks potential targets. Its an air engagement control station and this is the only manned piece of equipment in the battery. And its responsibility is to make sure all the other systems are working and that the identification and engagement of targets is correct and in line with the procedures. And the Patriot operators sit in this station and theyre able to terminate an engagement, and control the engagement as required. The battery then has a number of launches and this can be between four and six, depending on the mission and depending on which nation has made the contribution. And then each missile, each launcher has a number of missiles, and again, depending on the nation, but up to 16, with a variety of different types of missiles. In this case well focus on destroying targets which are missiles. That is the way that this has been put together in this missions case. So those batteries, two in each location, as Ive just described, are all connected together, so all six are together, and theyre then connected directly to Air Command Ramstein in Germany. Thats the operational commander, General Breedlove. And theyre plugged into a Command and Control Centre there. And that Command and Control Centre is also... has situational awareness of what is happening in the region in terms of missile firings or early warning. So were able to identify when theres some sort of missile fired that alerts the Patriot batteries, and then they can then observe the arcs that theyve got in their azimuth and react accordingly if a missile is a threat to the population in that particular area that theyre deployed to. I think another point I just wish to really stress, which is really important, is the Command and Control goes to Ramstein, but theres a piece of detailed coordination into what we call the Combined Air and Operations Centre, which is in Eskisehir in Turkey. And its there at the coordination is carried out with all the air thats going on. So to make sure that theres no risk of any accident, so that its all very carefully controlled and coordinated... And should there be an alert on the early warning system, that will go to the Patriots and the Patriots from the nations will be ready to intercept and defend as required.”... nato.int/cps/en/natolive/opinions_94119.htm?selectedLocale=en
Posted on: Sun, 24 Aug 2014 21:38:49 +0000
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