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The Hellenic Armed Forces ( Greek: Eλληνικές Ένοπλες Δυνάμεις, romanized :Ellinikés Énoples Dynámis) are the military forces of Greece. They consist of the Hellenic Army, the Hellenic Navy, and the Hellenic Air Force . The civilian authority overseeing the Hellenic Armed Forces is the Ministry of National Defense .
From the 501 BMP-1s that were ordered from Germany in 1993, around 140 BMP-1A1 Ost remained in service as of 2022. Another 44 BMP-1s were converted to ZU-23-2 carriers. As of June 2022, the Greek government intended to send at least 40 BMP-1 IFVs to Ukraine as military aid. 40 vehicles have already been sent. [81] [82] [83]
The term Hellenic is the endogenous synonym for Greek. The Hellenic Army is the largest of the three branches of the Hellenic Armed Forces, also constituted by the Hellenic Air Force (HAF) and the Hellenic Navy (HN). The army is commanded by the chief of the Hellenic Army General Staff (HAGS), which in turn is under the command of Hellenic ...
The Biden administration will send about $125 million in new military aid to Ukraine, U.S. officials said Thursday, even as Washington works to get a better understanding of Kyiv's incursion into ...
The III Hellenic Army Corps / NATO Rapid Deployable Corps – Greece, abbreviated NRDC-GR (Greek: Γ' Σωμα Στρατού), is an operational headquarters of the Hellenic Army, intended for the direction of international operations undertaken by the European Union and NATO. The HQ was originally going to replace the III Army Corps of the ...
On January 13, separatist fighters shot and tortured a civilian in Menchum, after accusing him of passing information to the Cameroonian military. [5] On January 21, it was confirmed that Cameroonian forces had captured top ADF commander "General Efang". [6] On January 24, suspected separatists burned a road construction equipment in Ndu. [7]
Crete Naval Base (Greek: Ναύσταθμος Κρήτης, Nafstathmos Kritis) is a major naval base of the Hellenic Navy and NATO at Souda Bay in Crete, Greece.. Formally known in NATO as Naval Support Activity, Souda Bay (NSA-Souda Bay), [1] and more commonly in Greece as the Souda Naval Base (Greek: Ναυτική Βάση Σούδας, Naftiki Vasi Soudas), it serves as the second largest ...
5.56×45mm NATO. USSOCOM. Piston operated rifle, ergonomics and controls based on the M16/M4 platform. M27 IAR. Assault rifle, Squad automatic weapon. Heckler & Koch. 5.56×45mm NATO. Marine Corps. Derived from the HK 416, currently supplementing the M249 as the Marine Corps’ squad automatic weapon (SAW).