Air-to-air missile launch by Turkey – The Greek response on the ground

Air-to-air missile launch from Turkey. This is a missile with a shorter range than the Typhoon.

Turkey has gone ahead with a test launch of an air-to-air missile, again putting… gunpowder in the Aegean, apparently… forced by the search for natural gas.

It is a missile with a shorter range than the Typhoon – which is a ballistic missile, and is called the Bosdogan.

It was launched by an F-16 fighter and for the first time related images were made public by the Turkish Ministry of Defense.

In particular, in the video made public with a post on the Twitter account of the Turkish Ministry of Defense, it is stated: “The test launch of the Bozdogan air-to-air missile, developed according to the needs of our Air Force and within the framework of the Goktug project, is being successfully continued by the 401st Division of our Fleet.”

The Greek answer on the field

Tanagra is reminiscent of recent weeks as the 343rd Fighter Squadron “Asteri” prepares to welcome two more upgraded “vipers” while the first pair of Vipers already complete dozens of flight hours.

Two flying instructors have taken up the burden of introducing the rest of the Squadron’s “hawks” to the secrets of the virtually new fighter so that as soon as the F-16s arrive from EAB in Souda, the training rates will increase and the flight hours will multiply with the vipers’, the most advanced version of the F-16 in the world.

The powerful state-of-the-art electronics fitted to the Viper transforms the fighter into the ultimate network-centric war machine topped by the APG-83 radar.

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This is the Active Electronic Scanning fire control radar which is based on the experience of more than 40 years of the manufacturing company Northrop Grumman.

Adapted to today’s sophisticated threats and the complex battlefield of high difficulty and danger. Aimed to operate in a much larger bandwidth than mechanical scanning radars with high speeds of detecting and processing threat targets.

In other words, and as they have already established in their flights over the Aegean, the AESA radar detects at much greater distances and recognizes at the same time and at speed a greater number of targets even in a hostile electronic environment with strong interference.

In the field, the Greek Vipers when flying in the central and eastern Aegean “read” with the AESA areas deep inside Turkey and have a complete picture of the TuAF fighters much earlier before they detect the HAF fighters.

This enables them to assess threats and prepare how to respond whether it is interception or strike missions. Faster search and detection of even smaller targets or targets flying at very close range, faster detection and targeting of multiple targets, autonomous precision targeting in any environment and terrain with simultaneous strong electronic protection.

The “falcons” of our Air Force now have in their Vipers a wealth of useful information both on the screens and in the helmet that give them multiple options especially in missions of high difficulty in a saturated environment such as that of the Aegean in the event of a crisis and conflict. The first impressions speak of a completely new fighter in terms of electronics which, as it becomes the “property” of the flying, gives possibilities of aerial supremacy. 83 such fighters in collaboration with the 24 also state-of-the-art network-centric Rafales form the ultimate electronic nightmare for the TuAF.

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Since with the AESA radars, “vipers” and “bursts” they set up a network of detection, identification and targeting and make the Aegean inaccessible and a “no fly zone” for enemy fighters.

And the Rafales may be the biggest problem for the neighbors, but the large number of Vipers that will accompany them may prove to be an even bigger problem that makes the “equation” for the Turkish air force impossible to solve.

As the number of French “bursts” that arrive at Tanagra and the 332 Fighter Squadron “Eraki” increases, both from the other side of the airport and the facilities of the EAB, upgraded Vipers will leave first for Souda and then for Larissa and Araxos.

What the manufacturing company of AESA APG-83 managed in 40 years, the neighboring Turks hope to achieve in the last period with “Reverse Engineering” and the construction of the made in Turkey AESA radar which they presented last week.

But their eagerness to acquire 40 new US F-16s and upgrade another 80 of their air fleet shows that they themselves are not convinced of the capabilities of the home-grown AESA.


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