 Following the dispatch of the Hellenic Navy landing ship tank (LST) "Lesvos" (L-172) to Paphos and the shelling of the local Turkish Cypriot enclave, the Turkish Air Force received reports of a Greek task force of ships off the coast of Paphos.In response, it assembled a force of around 28 strike aircraft from two squadrons to attack the flotilla with bombs and guns.This however, was a signals deception performed by the Greek Cypriot Naval Command, which transmitted false radio signals indicating that the destroyers sailing off Paphos were Greek.