First US Patriot battery under NATO command and control
Szöveg: honvedelem.hu / nato.int | 2013. február 8. 9:07On a hillside overlooking the city of Gaziantep, the US Patriot missile launchers were activated under NATO command and control today.
The US now becomes the third NATO nation to stand guard against a missile threat along Turkey’s southwestern border.
“Today the US has joined it fellow Allies Germany and the Netherlands in helping to protect the people of Turkey in this region," said the SHAPE Spokesperson, Lieutenant-Colonel Dariusz Kacperczyk. “This is what NATO Allies do for each other. It is all part of collective defence."
The US shipped most of their equipment by sea and airlifted the rest from Germany.
“Earlier this morning we activated the first of our two Patriot batteries to help protect the more than one and a half million people living in and around Gaziantep city," said Colonel Steve Richmond, of the 10th US Army Air and Missile Defence Command. “With the help of our Turkish military colleagues who are working with us we will have the second missile battery up by the middle of the month."
