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President Sakellaropoulou inspects the Greek Navy on Friday. Credit: Presidency of the Hellenic RepublicPresident of the Greece Katerina Sakellaropoulou inspected navy fleet vessels at sea from the frigate Hydra in the Saronic Gulf on Friday, as Athens considers the purchase of four new frigates.She was was attending the closing stages of the Hellenic Navy’s military…

Greek Ministry of Defense has shortlisted six countries for evaluating proposals for the acquisition of four new frigates for the Hellenic Navy

Drones provide an asymmetrical advantage to Turkey—being far less expensive than tanks.

Petrochori As Delivered Kalimera sas.  I want to start this afternoon by thanking Deputy Minister Stefanis for giving us a lift up to Petrochori so we could observe this exercise and the final phase of the bilateral U.S.-Hellenic Army exercise IMMEDIATE RESPONSE/ CENTAUR 21 as part of DEFENDER-Europe 21. Minister, you’ve been a fantastic friend, and so much of what we’ve accomplished was on display today, so thank you again. I also want to acknowledge all of our partners from the Hellenic ...

Geoffrey Pyatt is one of the longest serving US ambassadors to Athens – his fifth anniversary is on 19 May – and his tenure has coincided with some of the more difficult moments in recent history from the country’s economic precariousness to Greek-Turkish tensions last summer that brought the two countries to the brink of a military clash at sea. In a full-length interview with Marianna Kakaounakis at the annual Delphi Forum, Pyatt stressed the Biden administration’s intention to deepen...

Geoffrey Pyatt is one of the longest serving US ambassadors to Athens – his fifth anniversary is on 19 May – and his tenure has coincided with some of the more difficult moments in recent history from the country’s economic precariousness to Greek-Turkish tensions last summer that brought the two countries to the brink of a military clash at sea. In a full-length interview with Marianna Kakaounakis at the annual Delphi Forum, Pyatt stressed the Biden administration’s intention to deepen...

Kathimerini May 10, 2021 Ms. Kakaounaki:  Ambassador Pyatt, welcome to your fifth Delphi Economic Forum, although unfortunately we’re not in Delphi.  You’ve said numerous times that Greece has changed a lot since you first arrived.  Did you expect this?  And what has surprised you the moist? Ambassador Pyatt:  I wouldn’t be doing this if I wasn’t an optimist.  And I did something very interesting today.  Before we had this conversation I went back and watched my conversation wi...

Lockheed Martin delivers upgraded S-70B helicopter to Hellenic Navy 06 May 2021 (Last Updated May 7th, 2021 16:15) Lockheed Martin Rotary, Mission Systems has handed over an upgraded S-70B helicopter, code named as Aegean Hawk in Greek, to the Hellenic Navy. Share Article The helicopter is the first of 11 Aegean Hawks operated by the Hellenic Navy. Aeroservices, a certified repair company for Sikorsky helicopters, has carried out repair, inspectio...

Greece receives first upgraded S-70 Helicopter from US Search for: On Thursday, Greece’s Navy marked the delivery of the first maintained S-70 helicopter from US manufacturer Lockheed Martin Rotary, Mission Systems and Aeroservices. The inclusion of the 11 Aegean Hawk S-70 helicopters of the Navy in the program was made possible under the intergovernmental agreement between Greece and the US. The deal allowed Greek aeronautics and aircraft maintenance company Aeroservices to participate in t...

Port of Alexandroupoli  Delivered (podium)  Kalimera sas.  I want to start by thanking my friend, Defense Minister Panagiotopoulos, for coming up to Alexandroupoli today for this event.  But also to reflect, as we were discussing on the aircraft flying up this morning, on the spectacular progress that we have achieved in our defense relationship since the Minister and I first came to Alexandroupoli together in September of 2019, around the removal of the sunken dredger Olga.  I think we sh...