Turkey's foreign minister stood at a diplomatic forum in Antalya and accused Greece and Cyprus of building a military alliance with Israel designed to threaten Muslim nations across the region. He was talking about the Achilles Shield, a three and a half billion dollar Israeli package putting David's Sling missiles on Crete and Barak MX batteries across the Aegean. Turkey has held a standing declaration of war against Greece since 1995 that triggers the moment Athens extends its territorial waters from six to twelve nautical miles. What Greece has spent the last decade doing instead is building the most comprehensive air defense network in the Balkans. This video covers every weapon system Greece would bring to that fight.
00:00:00 - Introduction
00:00:42 - Main Battle Tanks
00:03:14 - Infantry Fighting Vehicles and APCs
00:08:00 - Engineering and Support Vehicles
00:13:36 - Artillery and Rocket Systems
00:18:30 - Air Defense
00:27:29 - Combat Aircraft
00:33:05 - Support Aircraft
00:37:12 - Helicopters
00:43:36 - UAVs and Loitering Munitions
00:46:31 - Missiles and Cruise Weapons
00:49:30 - Naval Vessels
00:56:58 - Small Arms and Infantry Weapons
⚔️ What We Cover in This Full Inventory Audit:
Tanks and Armor: The Hellenic Army runs Leopard 2A6 HELs with the longer 55 caliber gun and better composite armor than the Leopard 2A4s Turkey rolled into Afrin in 2018, where Kurdish fighters with Kornets and TOWs turned several of them into metal scrap and forced Germany's defense industry into a quiet panic. The older fleet includes Leopard 1A5 GRs, the same tank family Ukrainian crews are currently using to kill modern Russian armor from flanking positions with a 105mm gun older than most of the men firing it. The M48 and M60 family the Hellenic Army still operates are the same types of armor the Turkish army used to take a third of Cyprus in 1974. Greek firm EODH upgrades the Leopard 1 fleet locally with modern thermal sights, digital fire control, and reactive armor under the Leopard 1 HEL program.
Aviation: The Hellenic Air Force is transitioning from F-4E Phantom IIs upgraded under the 1997 Peace Icarus program to F-35As in the coming years. The current centerpiece is the Dassault Rafale F3R carrying the MBDA Meteor ramjet missile, whose no-escape zone is so much larger than the AIM-120 AMRAAM that a Greek Rafale can kill a Turkish F-16 from a distance at which the F-16 cannot fire back. Turkish airspace violations dropped from over two thousand in 2022 to around three hundred by 2024 after Rafale combat air patrols became routine. Greece and Turkey remain the two largest F-16 operators on Earth after the United States, and Greek Vipers are currently being upgraded with the APG-83 AESA radar that ships on brand new Block 70 Vipers today.
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