Libyan Crisis #2

As we have reported yesterday that Unknown Foreign Airforce Rafale Jets Allegedly Attack Turkish Targets In Al-Wataya Airbase.

France and Egypt are the two countries within the range of the base that possess this type of aircraft.

Now according to 218News, French Rafale destroyed Turkish air defense system in Al-Watiya airbase.

218News learned from an informed source that a series of strikes targeting Al-Wataya Airbase on Saturday night were carried out by a French Rafale fighter from about 70 km away.

The same source revealed that the airstrikes targeted two Turkish defense systems that were inside the base, one of which was completely destroyed, while the other wasn’t, indicating that the range of these air systems is 40 km, a difference of 30 km from the range that the base was bombed at.

Satellite images from Sentinel-2L1C show signs of destruction probably resulted from the recent airstrikes targeted Turkish military equipments including MIM-23 Hawk AD systems in al-Watiya air base in Western Libya.

ahmedfire wrote:But France has denied any responsibility over that operation .

Cyberspec wrote:According to a Turkish newspaper...

Turkey is proposing to deploy the S400 anti-aircraft weapon system in Libya
https://twitter.com/GeopoliticsN/status/1281214350703890433


The S-400 seems unlikely at this stage, but they have brought in fresh stuff in the past couple of days

#Turkish military equipment leaving Mitiga airport in #Tripoli.




https://twitter.com/alkaraisili/status/1280991175776841730

GarryB wrote:

Turkey will never activate S-400. If Erdogan does that he has no more leverage over Russia. Russia would go after Idlib city again. As long as Erdogan don't activate S-400 he has Putin by the balls by dangling S-400 over Putin's face as a low hanging fruit.

Why do you keep repeating this bullshit?

Cyberspec wrote:There is some speculation that Turkey might try an amphibious landing in the rear of Sirte with air support from bases on the Turkish mainland and airbases in Northern Cyprus to break the deadlock. If successful, it would negate a potential Egyptian intervention to keep Sirte in LNA hands

BTW, Egypt has ordered the Bastion Coastal Defence system but it hasn't arrived yet

Cyberspec wrote:There is some speculation that Turkey might try an amphibious landing in the rear of Sirte with air support from bases on the Turkish mainland and airbases in Northern Cyprus to break the deadlock. If successful, it would negate a potential Egyptian intervention to keep Sirte in LNA hands

BTW, Egypt has ordered the Bastion Coastal Defence system but it hasn't arrived yet

GarryB wrote:

Like I said before s-400 has 24 ready to launch missiles which is very easy to overwhelm with drones and missiles for the LNA side if they don't destroy it before they deploy it.

Even when it has run out of ready to fire missiles, the sensors and equipment that come with it make it a very capable system when used with other systems... the HAWK missiles might not be very modern but a lot of targets don't need modern missiles to destroy... they just need modern systems that can track the targets and direct older missiles to hit the targets.

S-400 is very mobile too...

medo wrote:Why on Earth you think, that Turkey will deploy S-400 alone in Libya? If Turkey deploy S-400, there will be a lot of Hawks, Hisars, Korkuts, Zipkins, Atilgans,... around them. Turkey have layered IADS.

President of Defence Industry Dr İsmail Demir announced that Hisar-O Medium Altitude Air Defence Missile System is deployed in Syria.

Demir speaking to M5 Magazine said, “ We are deploying it in Syria because we have the opinion that HİSAR-O will be more effective due to the range.”.

Demir shared detailed information about the process in the live broadcast of C4Defence in early May. In summary, the deliveries of Hisar-O, which is developed to defeat the medium-altitude threat.

Demir said Hisar-O started to enter the Turkish Armed Forces inventory and to be used partially. The Hisar-A and Hisar-O procurement plan, which is aimed to be supplied in equal quantities, has also changed due to the experience gained from the field. Your need in the field focused on the medium-altitude air defence system. Priority will be given to Hisar-O, whose deliveries have already begun during the procurement process. ”

What is Hisar O?

To meet the medium-altitude air defence needs of the Land Forces Command, it will fulfil the task of making the threat ineffective at medium altitude within the scope of point and regional air defence. HİSAR-O will be used in distributed architecture, battalion and battery structure.

HİSAR-A is designed to neutralize fixed and rotary-wing aircraft, cruise missiles, unmanned aerial vehicles and air-to-land missiles up to 15 km range for air defence of moving units and critical facilities.

Within the scope of the air defence of fixed troops and critical facilities, HİSAR-O ensures that fixed and rotary-wing aircraft, cruise missiles, unmanned aerial vehicles and air-to-land missiles within a range up to 25 km.

medo wrote:

Korkut is operational and first batteries are already in Libya.





Hisar-A SHORAD and Hisar-O medium range SAM are operational and Hisar-U long range SAM is in development. Turkey already deploy Hisar-A and Hisar-O in Syria.

http://en.c4defence.com/Archive/demir-hisaro-is-deployed-in-syria/10163/1

President of Defence Industry Dr İsmail Demir announced that Hisar-O Medium Altitude Air Defence Missile System is deployed in Syria.

Demir speaking to M5 Magazine said, “ We are deploying it in Syria because we have the opinion that HİSAR-O will be more effective due to the range.”.

Demir shared detailed information about the process in the live broadcast of C4Defence in early May. In summary, the deliveries of Hisar-O, which is developed to defeat the medium-altitude threat.

Demir said Hisar-O started to enter the Turkish Armed Forces inventory and to be used partially. The Hisar-A and Hisar-O procurement plan, which is aimed to be supplied in equal quantities, has also changed due to the experience gained from the field. Your need in the field focused on the medium-altitude air defence system. Priority will be given to Hisar-O, whose deliveries have already begun during the procurement process. ”

What is Hisar O?

To meet the medium-altitude air defence needs of the Land Forces Command, it will fulfil the task of making the threat ineffective at medium altitude within the scope of point and regional air defence. HİSAR-O will be used in distributed architecture, battalion and battery structure.

HİSAR-A is designed to neutralize fixed and rotary-wing aircraft, cruise missiles, unmanned aerial vehicles and air-to-land missiles up to 15 km range for air defence of moving units and critical facilities.

Within the scope of the air defence of fixed troops and critical facilities, HİSAR-O ensures that fixed and rotary-wing aircraft, cruise missiles, unmanned aerial vehicles and air-to-land missiles within a range up to 25 km.

Sources in the African Command of the US Armed Forces (AFRICOM) provided exclusive information and confirmed the information that on July 5, 2020, the Al-Vatiya base in Libya was attacked. The facility is located 130 km south-west of Tripoli and Turkish radars, air defense systems and electronic warfare systems were based there.

According to sources, the operation was carried out by the UAE Air Force and supported by Egypt and France. Cairo provided its airfield to Abu Dhabi aviation. At the same time, Paris refused to direct its Air Force to strike directly because of the already tense relations with Ankara, because France and Turkey are NATO allies and this could greatly harm the Alliance. But the French assisted the operation with their intelligence, and also insured UAE pilots with search and rescue teams in helicopters located at the junction of the borders of Libya, Tunisia and Algeria.

Three days before the operation, the UAE transferred the A330-243 MRTT tanker to Al-Nagib base in Egypt, where there were already four fighters of this country's air force.

As a result of the air strike, the infrastructure of the Al-Vatiya base was seriously damaged. The Turks lost their radar, MIM-23 Hawk air defense systems and Koral electronic warfare systems. 3-4 people were injured. There were no drones at the time of the attack. UAE Air Force used missiles with a range of more than 90 km.

The blow was delivered at a time when the military of Tripoli and Ankara were developing a plan to take control of the port city of Sirte and the Al-Jufra base in central Libya. Moreover, the base "Al-Vatiya" was given primary importance to ensure the offensive.

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