Illustrative image. (Aselsan)
Turkey deployed on February 20 an advanced early warning radar in Somalia, further strengthening its military presence in the Horn of Africa country.
The radar, a Turkish-made ALP-100G, was shipped from Mürted Airfield Command near Ankara to Aden Adde International Airport near Mogadishu aboard a C-17 Globemaster III military cargo plane of the Qatar Emiri Air Force. Video footage of the delivery was posted to social networks.
The ALP-100G is a GaN based multifunction low altitude early warning active electronically scanned array air defense radars developed by Aselsan. The radar is capable of 3D detection and tracking of fighter jets, helicopters, unmanned aerial vehicles and cruise missiles is in the development phase.
With a tracking capacity of over 1000 targets and full 360-degree azimuth coverage, it can operate at low, medium, and high altitudes. Its range remains classified, however.
The deployment of the radar came just a few weeks after Turkey deployed American-made F-16 fighter jets at Aden Adde International Airport near Mogadishu.
Over the past decade or so, the Turkish military trained thousands of Somali soldiers both in Turkey and at its Mogadishu base, known as Turksom, to fight Al-Shabaab and other terrorist groups. It also deployed combat drones, such as the TB2 Bayraktar and Akinci, in the country. Last year, it was also reported that three T129 Atak attack helicopters were sent to Mogadishu.
Turkey even delivered a number of used American-made M48 and M60 main battle tanks to the Somali military just last week.
The recent Turkish military expansion in Somalia is directly linked to Ankara’s plans to send an oil exploration platform to the country. The platform will start to drill off the Somali coast later this year. A spaceport project in northern Mogadishu is also in the planning stages.
In addition, Turkey is attempting to counter the influence of Israel, which last month became the first United Nations member state to formally recognize Somaliland, a breakaway region in northern Somalia.
With an ALP-100G radar now active in Somalia it wont be surprising if Turkey deployed air defenses to the country in the coming weeks.
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turkey is an official member of the zio globalist cartel of nations. or nato members states. using turkey is also handy for future blame diversion. how much us taxpayer funding is in this operation is always mystery behind shell companies. control of africa is the goal
how many militant asset groups like isis and al queda are being trained by the cia, idf and mi6 agencies? a new al jolani type dictator is probably in the works
i want the entire alawite sect and the entire kurdish nation deleted from syria because that alone would cause irreparable damage to the reputations of both trump and putin.
https://hawarnews.com/ar/137731 the poverty and division is still not big enough for the alawites who obeyed putin and assad to be ashamed enough to be kill putin and assad in moscow and then themselves and their families.
i want the joo sect deleted from the planet.
control of africa is the goal
https://hawarnews.com/ar/137743
eleven is way too few. it would take millions of slaughtered alawite and kurdish children to lie down to completely embarrass the arabs and maga. the shame should be big enough to contain the genocide of alawites and kurds. because only the death of all alawites and kurds would solve the knot tied by bashar al-assad and putin.
only if all the alawites and all the kurds were dead would the humiliation be great enough to make even those two traitors pay.
https://hawarnews.com/ar/137731 there is far too little poverty and division because these people deserve much more poverty and division.
they deserve to slaughter and devour each other.
so much so that the russian soldiers who fought on the side of assad will be ashamed and will find him and shoot him and his family themselves.
the only penalty for treason of this kind is death.
in that case chumpo and all the joo traitors in congress must be looking at a bleak future.
if chumpo and the jooz did succeed in destroying iran, they would immediately go after turkey, pakistan and saudi arabia. the jooz would just present him with a list of new wars he has to fight for israhell, if he doesn’t want them to release the epstein paedo tapes.