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As part of this year's multinational air defense exercise Tobruq Legacy 2019 in Poland, the Air Defense Missile Squadron 1 with its Surface-to-Air-Missile Operations Center (SAMOC) successfully led a tri-national task force with various command posts and weapon systems.

The Tobruq Legacy (TOLY) exercise was originally an interoperability test for ground-based air defense systems. Today it has grown into the largest air defense exercise in Europe with 16 nations and 2,500 soldiers involved. TOLY is rounded off by the live fire of the participating short-range air defense systems. In the future, the exercise will take place every two years, and Germany is also examining a possible orientation.

In order to integrate the multitude of different weapon systems with different capabilities for the use of tactical data links into the NATO command structure under unified leadership, powerful command posts are required. The Air Force has the SAMOC for networked operations within the framework of expanded air defense - and thus the establishment of optimized operational planning and a powerful command instrument for ground-based air defense forces in the NATO alliance. As a command post of the 3rd command level, it forms an important link between higher-level air defense command posts, such as the Control and Reporting Center and the Joint Forces Air Command, on the one hand, and the subordinate group command command posts (2nd command level) with the fire units subordinate to them (1st command level) on the other hand. The connection and tactical control of various ground-based air defense weapon systems as part of a joint, even multinational, air defense operation as well as the possibility of integration into a multinational training and simulation network complement the range of capabilities.

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