Farewell contingent Patriot Army will deploy in Turkey

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(Defensa.com) In the barracks "Cortijo Buenavista" in San Roque (Cádiz), home of the Hawk Patriot SAM Group I / 74, held on December 20 the official farewell ceremony quota Patriot Antiaircraft Artillery Regiment ( RAAA) No 74. A quota is projected to Turkey in response to the request for support that made this country the Atlantic Alliance to provide protection to the population against ballistic missile threats from Syria. A mission that will be deterrent and defensive. Defence Minister Peter Morenés, announced in September, before the Defence Committee of the Congress, sending Turkey antiaircraft battery of this device as part of the NATO decision at the NATO summit in Wales.



The contingent consists of 150 soldiers under the command of Commander George M. Cotorruelo, integrated command and control elements capable of activating an Operations Centre A Flat Major Command a Patriot battery Fire and Support Unit. The first soldiers and equipment will sail to Turkey before year end. Soon after, in the first fortnight of January, will fly the bulk of the quota, completing his relief in civil Adana airport with the Dutch contingent before the end of January. Each rotation will remain in area during a semester.

Last November, as a prelude shipping to Turkey, an exercise of Livex kind was made in the shooting range missile Medano del Loro (Huelva), integration testing and certification of crews that will operate the 9th Patriot battery. The Spanish Army has an integrated organically into the GAAA 1/74 Patriot anti-aircraft missile battery (Phased Array Tracking of Targets to lntercept). The system was initially designed as an air defense system for medium to high altitude. Although it was designed with a certain capacity to detect and intercept ballistic missiles, was amended substantially from initial conception to progressively acquire a growing missile capability, through successive versions or configurations of the various components and the missile itself.

The Government approved earlier this month a framework agreement for the acquisition of another Patriot air defense system, from German military surplus by more than 41 million euros. The purchase will include the Central component Central Operations Control and Intervention (ICC) and two batteries of forty missiles, plus delivery vehicles, communication systems and additional elements of logistics and maintenance, all originating in the surplus withdrawn by the German Government, with which it has reached a coalition agreement.

In 2004 the Army Patriot acquired other subsystems, namely a battery equipped with a radar, a Director of Fire and eight pitchers Center for four missiles each, plus missile missile capability. However the Central Monitoring and Information now wants to buy with communication systems that allow the interconnection between the Director of Fires Centre and the ICC was not included. The contract shall be packed in five years. The farewell ceremony Patriot quota of RAAA # 74 was chaired by the head of Antiaircraft Artillery Command, General John V. Cuesta Moreno, accompanied by the head of RAAA # 74, Col. Luis C. Torcal. The latter emphasized in his speech the effort made by the Regiment to enlist the contingent and response in a short period of time the announcement that Defense Minister held on September 17.
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