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🚨🇬🇷🇮🇱 BREAKING: Greece Signs $750M Deal for Advanced PULS™ Rocket Systems. Elbit Systems has secured a $750 million contract to supply PULS™ artillery systems to the Hellenic Armed Forces, enhancing long-range precision strike capabilities and modernizing Greece’s defense systems. Source: Elbit Systems / Defense reports

JUST IN: Israel signed a 650 million euro defence contract in Athens on April 6 while simultaneously bombing Iran’s largest petrochemical complex, assassinating the head of IRGC intelligence, and managing a two-phase ceasefire proposal it has not agreed to. The deal is for 36 Elbit Systems PULS rocket artillery launchers, precision-guided missiles with ranges up to 300 kilometres, loitering munitions, and a ten-year support package for Greece. The buyer is not joining the Iran war. The buyer is preparing for a different adversary entirely. The PULS systems will deploy to Greece’s northeastern border and Aegean islands. The range covers western Turkey. The contract was approved by the Greek parliament in closed session in December 2025, three months before the Iran war began. The timing is the signal. A country fighting its largest war since 1973 paused long enough to close the biggest arms export deal in the Eastern Mediterranean this year. The message is not military. It is commercial and strategic. Israel is demonstrating that its defence industry operates during wartime, that its weapons are battle-tested in real time, and that its alliances extend beyond the current conflict into the structural architecture of European security. Greece is demonstrating that it views Israel, not the United States or the European Union, as its primary defence partner for the Aegean theatre. A NATO member is buying Israeli artillery to deter another NATO member. The PULS is not a conventional rocket launcher. It is a modular platform that fires seven different munition types from the same truck without repositioning. Accular 122-millimetre guided rockets at 35 kilometres with 10-metre accuracy. EXTRA supersonic missiles at 150 kilometres. Predator Hawk deep-strike rounds at 300 kilometres. SkyStriker loitering munitions that hover, identify, and strike autonomously at 100 kilometres with one-metre precision. The system gives Greece the ability to hold targets across the Aegean from fixed positions on the islands that Turkey disputes. Every launcher is a denial zone. Thirty-six launchers redraw the military geometry of the Eastern Mediterranean. The relationship between Greece and Israel has transformed in sixteen years. Before 2010, Greece voted with the Arab bloc at the United Nations and maintained minimal diplomatic contact. The Greek financial crisis opened the door. Israel offered military cooperation without political conditions. The trilateral framework with Cyprus followed, built on EastMed gas pipeline plans and joint naval exercises. Greece hosted Israeli F-16 training at Andravida. Israel sold Heron drones to Athens. The Spike missile became standard in the Hellenic Army. Now the PULS contract makes Greece one of the largest operators of Israeli precision artillery in Europe. The deal was worth 650 million euros to Elbit Systems, whose stock trades in Tel Aviv and New York. It was worth a strategic foothold in the European Union to the Israeli Ministry of Defence, which co-signed in Athens. And it was worth a 300-kilometre precision envelope to a Greek military that has spent two decades watching Turkey modernise with American, Russian, and domestic systems while NATO’s internal solidarity on Aegean sovereignty remained ambiguous. Israel is fighting a war and selling weapons on the same day. Greece is buying weapons from a country at war because the weapons work and the alliance is older than the crisis. The PULS launchers will arrive over four years. The war in Iran may not last four months. But the Aegean will still be contested when the strait reopens, and the 36 launchers that Greece signed for today will still be pointed east when the last missile in the Zagros has been fired. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

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Bravo to Greece. To think that some know-nothings used to argue that Greece would be better off out of the euro

Holger Zschaepitz @Schuldensuehner

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MSCI reclassifies #Greece to Developed Market from Emerging Market.

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The Greek Frigate HS HYDRA 🇬🇷 successfully provided support to merchant vessels, ensuring crews and cargo, reached their destination safely.

This crisis just made more visible the long term planning of Greek diplomacy, coupled with the increasing operational capacity of the Greek armed forces. In contrast to others that chose ambiguity and coercion, Greece invested in being dependable to its multi-faceted alliances and commitments. By carefully and gradually expanding its military and diplomatic footprint the previous years, Greece transformed itself quietly into a multi-regional security provider (Balkans, EastMed, Middle East), simultaneously taking part in protecting NATO's south-eastern flank, the commercially crucial Red Sea waterway leading to Suez and critical to the world oil supply energy installations, among others. Of course the primary mission remains to protect Greek territory, interests and security as well as its brotherly Cyprus, from active threats that are unfortunately still present. Even though the overseas deployments are purely defensive and most predate the current crisis, their recent successful interception of ballistic missiles in KSA and drones in Cyprus and the Red Sea make them more high profile, increasing the risks. So the challenge is to remain vigilant militarily, while at the same time to diplomatically re-emphasize Greece's defensive minded posture.

💥The most dangerous Airforce in Europe isn’t WHO You Think ! 🔥Greece’s 🇬🇷 Air Force is no longer playing defense — it’s shaping the balance of power in Europe. With Rafale fighters armed with Meteor missiles, upgraded F-16V Vipers, and incoming F-35 stealth jets, Greece has built one of the most lethal and networked air forces in NATO. This isn’t theory. It’s real-world intercepts, daily airspace confrontations, and combat-ready pilots operating over one of the most contested regions in the world — the Aegean Sea How did a country once crippled by economic crisis transform into a regional air power hub? This is the story of how Greece locked its skies — and why nobody tests them lightly anymore. #Greece #HellenicAirForce #Rafale #F16V #F35 #NATO #AirForce #MilitaryPower #DefenseAnalysis #Geopolitics #EuropeanDefense #AirSuperiority #ModernWarfare @HAFspokesperson Check the video by ConflictX 👉🏻youtu.be/0IkUghk7Xw4?si…

March 21, 1821: Greek revolutionaries started the Greek War of Independence by seizing Kalavryta and declared revolt against Ottoman rule at the Monastery of Agia Lavra.

BREAKING: Greece just shot down two Iranian ballistic missiles over Saudi Arabia. A NATO member that signed no declaration of war against Iran used a Patriot battery operated by Greek soldiers on Saudi soil to intercept missiles targeting the SAMREF oil refinery in Yanbu on the Red Sea coast. Greek Defense Minister Dendias confirmed the engagement. Prime Minister Mitsotakis called it strictly defensive. It is the first time Greek military personnel have fired a weapon in combat since the battery was deployed under a bilateral agreement with Riyadh in November 2021. A European democracy that borders Turkey just entered the Middle East’s largest war to protect a refinery jointly owned by Saudi Aramco and ExxonMobil. The target tells the story. SAMREF is not a military installation. It is a 400,000-barrel-per-day refinery on Saudi Arabia’s western coast, far from the Strait of Hormuz, far from the front lines of Operation Epic Fury. Iran fired ballistic missiles and at least one drone at it. The missiles were intercepted by the Greek Patriot PAC-3. The drone impacted the complex with what Saudi authorities described as minor damage. Iran is no longer limiting its retaliation to Hormuz or the Gulf coast. It is reaching across the Arabian Peninsula to the Red Sea, targeting refineries that supply Europe and Asia through the Suez Canal rather than the strait. The geography of Iranian retaliation just doubled. This happened on March 19, the same day 23 nations signed a joint statement condemning Iran’s Hormuz closure and pledging readiness to ensure safe passage. Greece is not one of the 23 signatories. Greece did not sign the statement. Greece fired the interceptor. The country that pledged nothing on paper did more in three seconds of missile engagement than 23 signatures accomplished in three pages of diplomatic language. Readiness is a word. A Patriot launch is a verb. Trump told the world on March 21 that Europe, Japan, Korea and China will have to get involved in policing the strait. Greece got involved before he asked. It got involved not through a statement or a pledge or a fund but through a missile defence battery that has been sitting in Saudi Arabia for four years waiting for a moment that arrived on March 19 at the speed of an Iranian ballistic warhead. The bilateral agreement that put Greek soldiers in Yanbu was signed for exactly this scenario. The scenario arrived and the agreement held. The implications cascade. A NATO member has now engaged Iranian weapons in combat. Greece frames it as defensive, bilateral, and unrelated to the broader war. But the missile it intercepted was fired by the same IRGC that launched two intermediate-range ballistic missiles at Diego Garcia the following day. The same IRGC that hit Ras Laffan in Qatar. That hit Mina Al-Ahmadi in Kuwait twice. That put a cluster munition through a daycare roof in Rishon Lezion this morning. Greece intercepted missiles from an organisation that is simultaneously attacking six countries. The word defensive becomes complicated when the attacker’s target list includes half the region. Twenty-three nations signed a statement. One nation fired a Patriot. The question nobody is asking yet is which model scales. If Iran continues expanding its target geography from the Gulf to the Red Sea to the Indian Ocean, the 23-nation statement will need to become a 23-nation engagement. Greece did not wait for the statement to tell it what to do. It had a battery, a mandate, and a missile inbound. It fired. The refinery is still standing. The precedent is now set. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

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"Soldier. For 49 years, I’ve held the rifle in my hands and fought for Greece. I battled night and day for my country. I went hungry, thirsty and didn’t sleep a lifetime. I saw my relatives die, my siblings suffer and my children breathe their last before my eyes. But I didn’t falter. I believed that God had signed for our freedom and wouldn’t take it back." —Theodoros Kolokotronis, Memoirs Greek general and leading figure of the 1821 Greek Revolution, also known as the “Old Man of Morea”. His combat equipment in National Historical Museum, Athens, Greece.

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Now in defense: Israel advances major deal with Greece worth tens of millions of euros for four Israeli defense systems, most focused on air defense. The "Achilles Shield" program approval progresses as Greece potentially prepares for Turkish confrontation and responds to Iranian launches toward Cyprus.

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