Greece will be making a formal request for the purchase of an undisclosed number of advanced F-35 fighter jets from the United States after a decision for their acquisition was signed in Athens on Wednesday.
Athens had already made its intentions known during Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ trip to Washington last month, while Greek Defense Minister Nikos Panagiotopoulos and the chief of the National Defense General Staff, Konstantinos Floros, are expected to travel to the US on July 28.
The acquisition of F-35s would “strengthen Greece’s defense capabilities, deepen US-Greek NATO interoperability, securing regional stability,” US Ambassador to Greece George Tsunis, said in a tweet following a meeting last week between Panagiotopoulos and officials from the Joint Strike Fighter Program Office, which Tsunis had attended.
Lol – Turkey (oh right: Türkiye – more lol) will go ballistic as I think even after the NATO compromise for Finland and Sweden they’ll still not get any F-35 themselves anytime soon.
Didn’t the Greeks just buy new French planes? I thought smaller countries preferred to buy one type of jet to keep things streamlined. Or maybe that was French ships they bought?
I can understand wanting to buy F-35s but I don’t understand how are they planing to keep their relatively sizable airforce operational whilst paying pittance for maintenance. Eventually this will result in a fiery tragedy.
To my knowledge Greece still has crippling debts with Europe after the recession of 2010. I understand the investment from a geopolitical perspective, but as a Dutchman I wonder when (if ever) our tax money will be returned
Go Greece
In other news, Greece can afford F-35s??
(Sorry, sorry, go ahead and downvote my Greek friends lol)
With what money?
5$ say this is Greece flexing in front of Turkey how they can get them but Turkey can’t.
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Greece will be making a formal request for the purchase of an undisclosed number of advanced F-35 fighter jets from the United States after a decision for their acquisition was signed in Athens on Wednesday.
Athens had already made its intentions known during Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ trip to Washington last month, while Greek Defense Minister Nikos Panagiotopoulos and the chief of the National Defense General Staff, Konstantinos Floros, are expected to travel to the US on July 28.
The acquisition of F-35s would “strengthen Greece’s defense capabilities, deepen US-Greek NATO interoperability, securing regional stability,” US Ambassador to Greece George Tsunis, said in a tweet following a meeting last week between Panagiotopoulos and officials from the Joint Strike Fighter Program Office, which Tsunis had attended.
Lol – Turkey (oh right: Türkiye – more lol) will go ballistic as I think even after the NATO compromise for Finland and Sweden they’ll still not get any F-35 themselves anytime soon.
Didn’t the Greeks just buy new French planes? I thought smaller countries preferred to buy one type of jet to keep things streamlined. Or maybe that was French ships they bought?
I can understand wanting to buy F-35s but I don’t understand how are they planing to keep their relatively sizable airforce operational whilst paying pittance for maintenance. Eventually this will result in a fiery tragedy.
To my knowledge Greece still has crippling debts with Europe after the recession of 2010. I understand the investment from a geopolitical perspective, but as a Dutchman I wonder when (if ever) our tax money will be returned
Go Greece
In other news, Greece can afford F-35s??
(Sorry, sorry, go ahead and downvote my Greek friends lol)
With what money?
5$ say this is Greece flexing in front of Turkey how they can get them but Turkey can’t.