Showing posts with label Greece. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Greece. Show all posts
Thursday, June 27, 2024

India Eyes Greek Mirage 2000-5 Fighter Jets for Spare Parts

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  Athens has proposed to New Delhi the acquisition of 18 Mirage 2000-5 fighter jets that are nearing the end of their operational lifespan. ...
Sunday, June 9, 2024

Russian Company Offers Bounty for Downing Ukrainian F-16 Jets

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  A Russian company has announced substantial rewards for shooting down any Ukrainian F-16 fighter jets. Sergey Shmotyev, the director of th...
Friday, May 31, 2024

EU Considers Comprehensive Air Defense Shield Backed by Greece and Poland

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  The European Union is evaluating the creation of its own air defense shield following support for a Greek-Polish initiative. Greek Prime M...
Wednesday, April 3, 2024

Greek Push for BrahMos Missile Against Turkey's S-400: Indo-Russian Defense Collaboration

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  In 2023, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Greece paved the way for potential cooperation between India and Greece, particularly...
Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Greece to Sell F-16s and Mirage-2000s: A Strategic Shift in Air Force Modernization

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  Greece, having previously announced its intention to train Ukrainian fighter pilots on F-16s, has now revealed plans to decommission and s...
Thursday, December 14, 2023

Turkey's Fighter Jet Dilemma: Could JF-17 Block 3 be the Solution

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  In the ever-evolving landscape of geopolitical tensions and defense strategies, Turkey finds itself at a crossroads in its pursuit of adva...
Friday, January 13, 2012

19 EU Countries OK Defense Product Transfers Law

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BRUSSELS - Nineteen European Union member states have so far told the European Commission that they have adopted the EU'S Directive 200...
Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Greece, Israel Pledge to Boost Defense Ties

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ATHENS - Greece and Israel pledged to boost defense cooperation with a view to improving regional stability, their defense ministers told r...
Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Cypriot Protesters Demand British Forces Leave

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NICOSIA - Protesters demanding that British forces withdraw from Cyprus clashed with police at a military base, leaving around a dozen peop...
Thursday, December 8, 2011

Greece Considers Free Tank Offer

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ATHENS - Cash-strapped Greece is considering an offer of hundreds of redundant M1A1 Abrams tanks extended by the United States government, ...
Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Turkey Signs Deal To Buy Six CH-47 Copters

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ANKARA - Turkey has signed a government-to-government deal with the United States to buy six CH-47 Chinook heavy-lift transport he...
Saturday, August 13, 2011

Norway pulls Falcons back

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HELSINKI - Norway has withdrawn its F-16 fighter squadron from NATO's Operation Unified Protector (OUP). The return of the F-16s ends ...
Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Turkish Army Scraps Major Drills

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ANKARA,Turkey - The Turkish army said May 24 it had canceled two major military exercises in the Aegean Sea region in the west, where tensio...
Thursday, May 19, 2011

Norway Army Faced Cyber Attack After Libya Bombing

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OSLO - The Norwegian military said May 19 that it had been the victim of a serious cyber attack at the end of March, a day after Norwegian F...
Saturday, April 2, 2011

Building the Shield

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Efforts to establish a NATO-led European missile shield have ricocheted off national political challenges, regional rivalries and commerci...
Monday, March 14, 2011

India World's Biggest Arms Importer: SIPRI Report

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STOCKHOLM - India has been the world's biggest weapons importer over the past five years, Swedish think-tank SIPRI reported March 14, n...