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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 .
In 1972 the personnel structure changed, reflecting increased responsibilities of warrant and non-commissioned officers, renaming the underofficerare as kompaniofficerare, giving them the same ranks as company grade officers (fänrik, löjtnant, kapten).
Most rank titles are cognates to the ones in English, with some exceptions. Notably colonel's literal meaning is regimental-leader , likewise plutonowy means platoon-leader . Also, the title equivalent to petty officer is identical to the word for boatswain , so a Bosman may or may not be a bosman .
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 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 ...
This is a list of equipment of the British Army currently in use. It includes current equipment such as small arms, combat vehicles, explosives, missile systems, engineering vehicles, logistical vehicles, vision systems, communication systems, aircraft, watercraft, artillery, air defence, transport vehicles, as well as future equipment and ...
The Hellenic National Defence General Staff ( Greek: Γενικό Επιτελείο Εθνικής Άμυνας, abbr. ΓΕΕΘΑ) is the senior staff of the Hellenic Armed Forces. It was established in 1950, when the separate armed services ministries were consolidated into the Ministry of National Defence. Its role in peacetime was as a ...
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]