NATO " Tiger Meet " Konya  -  2015

The NATO Tiger Meet edition 2015 took place from Monday 4th to Saturday 16th of May at the Türk Hava Kuvvetleri Air Base in Konya. Organizer unit was 192 Filo which flies the F-16C/D Block 50 Fighting Falcons from a different home base, Balikesir, in the north west part of Turkey. The NATO Tiger Meet is an exercise between units sporting a badge displaying a tiger or a big cat family. All through the meeting pilots have scheduled to fly single sorties or in a batch including a/c from different participating units; more some competitions have carried out by flying and ground personnel under different operative and folk sides. 

A different trophy has awarded to each competition but the Silver Tiger Trophy is the most desirable one. It awards the overall best squadron in the Tiger Meet event. 

Here’s the winner of the trophies of this edition :

Trophy                                          Winner 2015                                             Air Force   

                                          Tiger Games                        6 Eskadra Lotnictwa Taktycznego                  Polish Air Force             

                                      Siver Tiger Trophy                                  21° Gruppo                                        Italian Air Force

                                              Best Skit                                        Fliegerstaffel 11                                   Swiss Air Force

                                Best Painted Tiger Aircraft                              192 Filo                                       Turk Hava Kuvvetleri

                                   Best Looking Uniform                                   192 Filo                                       Turk Hava Kuvvetleri

                                        Best Flying Unit                                       EC 1.007                                           Armée de l’Air

Unfortunately this edition has seen the absence of many units because of operational commitments in different exercise and NATO Operations, 

so the list of the participants was as follow :

a/c                                       Unit                                        AirBase                                               Air Force

                            F-16C/D                               192 Filo                                    Balikesir                                       Türk Hava Kuvvetleri

                          Rafale C/B                            EC05.330         BA 118 Mont-de-Marsan (using EC01.007 a/c)         Armée de l’Air

                          Rafale C/B                            EC01.007                            BA 113 St.Dizier                                       Armée de l’Air

                          F/A-18C/D                         Fliegerstaffel 11                            Meiringen                                          Swiss Air Force

                            F-16C/D                                 6 ELT                               Poznan-Krzesiny                                         Polish AF

                               E-3A                               1° AEW&CS                             Geilenkirchen                                              NATO

                           AB-212ICO                           21°Gruppo                               Grazzanise                                          Italian Air Force

A spotter day took place Thursday 7 and Friday 8 of May. Photographs were able on taking pictures always in the best condition of all participant, visitors and resident aircraft. A special welcome have had two F-4E Phantom II visiting Konya AB during the spotter days. They were parked close to spotters area in a static display, as well as the special painted tiger 192 Filo F-16D for complete enjoying of the photographers.
                                                                                                                                                    Report and photo by Renzo Del Bianco
 
 
Thanks to 192 Filo, Konya Air Base and all personnel of the Türk Hava Kuvvetleri  for perfect organization and hospitality given us all through the “spotter day”.

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