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How the Greek pilots managed to escape – General Floros’ plan, the “blockade” at Kastelorizo and the dramatic attempt by the Turkish pilots to escape to Turkey.
An unknown fact came to light in the last 24 hours, confirming once again the Ankara’s dangerous practices and the superiority of the Greek Air Force.
Reveal “Kyriakatiki Kathimerini” and journalist Vassilis Nedos First dispute between Greek F-16 fighters and Turkey’s next-generation anti-aircraft system, S-400, Russian-made.
According to reports Turkey activates the radars of the S-400 anti-aircraft systems to locate the Greek “wings” upon their return from exercise “Eunomia” against Cyprus on August 27, 2020. However, Ankara’s first attempt to locate the blue and white F-16 turned into … a catastrophe! It was preceded by the dispatch of two Greek fighters to Cyprus, two days earlier, where The Greek pilots not only managed not to be located, but they literally “disgraced” the Turkish air defense.
The chronicle and the movement – General Floros’ mat
From 26 to 28 August, the great aviation exercise “Eunomia” was held in Cyprus, with the participation of Greece, Cyprus, France and Italy. The Greek “Pentagon” had announced days before that our country will participate in the quadripartite by sending the “KOUNDOURIOTIS” type “S” frigate and its organic helicopter to Megalonysos, as well as a series of combat aircraft that would carry out various operational scenarios in the sky. testimony of Cyprus.
Military leadership, under the A / GEETHA Mr. Konstantinos Floros He designed with great care and studying every detail the shipment to Cyprus of the first two F-16 Block 52+ Advanced. For the Greek fighters to reach Paphos, they had to “Surgical” manipulations, as the Turks were sure that … they would wait in the air to prevent them from arriving.
In fact, they had removed a flying radar early Tuesday (08/25) to locate the Greek “wings”, while they had also prepared their fighter jets, which were supposed to take off to prevent the Greeks from reaching Cyprus. .
The Greek pilots knew the intentions of the Turks and following the plan drawn up by A / GEETHA Mr. Constantinos Floros and Staff, they managed not only to escape from them, trapping the Turkish air defense, but only realized when they finally landed Paphos. The Turkish air defense had already suffered the first … resistance which caused irritation in Ankara.
But Athens did not stop there. Following the arrival of the two Greek F-16s in Cyprus on Tuesday morning (08/25), Another 6 Greek fighters managed to reach Cyprus on Thursday morning (08/27), without being noticed by the Turks.
In fact, despite the fact that the Turkish Armed Forces they were prepared to prevent the Greek fighters from reaching Megalonysus, in the end, they only saw them when they saw them flying over the Cyprus sky.
The operation was planned in detail and perfectly organized by the Chief of Staff, General Konstantinos Floros, from the room of the National Operations Center of the Ministry of National Defense, in collaboration with the Officers of the three Corps and was crowned with total success, from the Greek F-16s. the Kastelli of Crete, from where they took off, until Cyprus did not meet the slightest resistance.
After running various regular scenarios and operational objects, the six fighters made their way back to Kastelli, Crete.
“Hell” on the way back – They activated the s-400 but, they didn’t know where it came from …
The second … case What the Turks suffered in the air in 48 hours enraged the Turkish officers who ordered their pilots to prevent the Greek fighters from returning to Greece.
In fact, the Turkish military leadership has taken steps that it has never done before. He activated the S-400 anti-aircraft system to locate the Greek fighters, which would return to Andravida and Kastelli.
This is exactly what happened at noon on Thursday (08/27). The Turks had it … ready for the Greek pilots and tried to create a problem for them on their return. When the Greek fighters arrived near Kastelorizo, they found in front of them 6 Turkish F-16s that tried to block them. A “hell” of air battles followed.
However, General Floros’s plan had foreseen this movement of the Turks, while the next strategic move of the Air Force had been formed. Four Greek fighters took off and in a few minutes they were at the site of the battle … giving numerical superiority to the Greeks.
The Turks didn’t know where they came from! Suddenly they saw in front of them the sky full of Greek planes that, as military sources often point out, interspersed the Turks, who were trying in terror to escape the Greek fighters.
Another defeat for the Turkish pilots is a fact, although also in terms of strategy, The Chief of Staff and the General Staff are reaping the excellent planning that resulted in the return of the six Greek fighters from Cyprus without any problems.
Alarm in Washington
The Turks’ maneuver to activate the S-400 was the alarm bell that alarmed US diplomacy about the situation in the Eastern Mediterranean.
According to the permanent mooring of the USS Hershel “Woody” Williams floating business support platform at the Souda facility, the United States is substantially strengthening its presence in Crete, which is essentially becoming a center for concentrating military power., with an infrastructure that will be able to house not only Greek and American forces, but also forces from Arab countries, as happened in previous weeks with the presence of the United Arab Emirates in Souda, for a month.
From the US point of view, according to “Kathimerini tis Kyriakis”, strengthening the presence in Souda is a clear option for more closely monitor the growing Russian presence in the eastern Mediterranean.
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