Hellenic Navy

The agreement comprises of some follow-on support agreements for the existing F-16 fleet of, uh, Hellenic Air Force, and actually I would say that that's the bulk of the money that's going, uh, for the F-16s.

And secondly, for two types of helicopters of, uh, the Hellenic Navy, MH-60 Romeo, uh, which are already part of the, uh, of the arsenal of the Hellenic Navy.

And, uh, secondly, about the Black Hawk helicopters, uh, UH-60, that will start to be delivered in Greece, uh, by next year.

So we pre, uh, let's say, arrange the follow-on support agreement, so the availability of these items would always be quite high.

The government allegedly discontinued the project after the tragic events.

The US Eldridge was later transferred to the Greek Navy and decommissioned in 1992.

Now, people say that Nikola Tesla's findings is what gave them the ability to do this.

Nikola Tesla died in 1943 of January.

So this strategy directly aims to weaponize the Aegean semi-enclosed maritime chokepoints and insular vantage points.

As summarized by Greek Minister of Defense, Nikos Dendias, the Aegean will no longer be protected, uh, solely by the fleet, by the Hellenic Navy's fleet, but it will be protected primarily by missile artillery that will be dispersed and deployed across the hundreds, if not thousands, of islands in the archipelago.

So this is a very important point because Greek defensive strategy is transitioning from a purely defensive model of, uh, using the Hellenic Navy fleet as the, the first line of defense to a more joint land-sea denial framework.

So in this regard, the Aegean becomes a highly sophisticated anti-access area denial, as they say, A2AD kill zone.

And this reconfiguration forces a high premium on any would-be aggressor, uh, because any attacking force would have to encroach upon layers upon layers of Greek defense that would be based on the Greek islands and creating this intricate defensive web overlapping as well, where multiple islands would be hosting a missile firing units, air defense, uh, networks, and the drone systems, and of course, onshore anti-ship missile batteries that would be threatening Any aggressor from taking a decisive action in Aegean waters because he would be targeted from, you know, multiple sides, from multiple islands, to put it simply.

So this existing, uh, architecture of satellite communications is now expanding to include the Hellas Sat Five and brand new state-of-the-art satellite system, which, uh, actually introduces a quantum encrypted optical communications payload that shall utilize domestic ground observatory nodes and, uh, ground bases which will be stationed in Crete, Kalamata, Corinthia, and Halkidiki.

So moving on to unmanned offshore infrastructure.

On the water surface, this, uh, space network directly-- it can directly integrate with the Hellenic Navy's new unmanned sea platform, the so-called PANOPTES.

I have received the letter which your Excellency has addressed to me, wrote the worthy Miaoulis on the 3rd of April in answer to a letter declining to take command of the fleet until the differences were settled, and I appreciate the objections which it contains.

I wish with all my heart that the reasons which prevent you may not exist beyond this evening and that a general union will induce you to place yourself at the head of the Greek navy.

Before that, on the 28th of March, Lord Cochrane had received a formal commission from the government at Aegina.

Knowing well, ran the document, the valour, wisdom, ability and energy and all the warlike virtues which are joined in the estimable person of Lord Cochrane and by which he has been distinguished in all the various services with which he has elsewhere been charged, the governing commission ordains first that Lord Cochrane be appointed first admiral of the fleet and of all the naval forces of Greece, secondly that he rank above all other naval officers and enjoy all the honours, privileges and rights that appertain to his office.

I call upon you now to stand forward in defence of your religion and all that is valuable to man.

I send you a thousand dollars which is all I can spare.

Those who will equip their ships may depend upon repayment out of the first money that shall be remitted to me from the public service of Greece." As that letter implies Lord Cochrane had to begin his reconstruction of the Greek navy now the only remaining resource of the nation in its hope of working out and assuring its independence by effort of its own almost without funds.

The small sum of eight thousand pounds which he had brought with him as well as the money collected by the European committees and transmitted to the Philhellenic committee in Greece composed of Colonel Haydeck, Dr. Bailey and Dr. Goss was nearly exhausted and the bankrupt government was unable to provide him with any adequate resources for carrying on his work.