Phoenix Express 2012 Begins in Souda Bay, Crete
SOUDA BAY, Crete (NNS) — Phoenix Express 2012 (PE12), a multi-national exercise between Southern European, North African and U.S. naval forces, officially kicked off at the NATO Maritime Interdiction Operation Training Center (NMIOTC) in Souda Bay, May 7. Phoenix Express is an at-sea maritime exercise designed to improve cooperation among participating nations to help increase [...]
The Boarding and Command Teams of the Russian ship “VICE ADMIRAL KULAKOV” will be trained from 23 to 25 April 2012 in NATO Maritime Interdiction Operational Training Centre (NMIOTC). The decision for this training was made during the 17th meeting of NATO-RUSSIA council within the context of the cooperation programme for the year 2012. Their [...]
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On March 23rd 2012, Rear Admiral Oded Gour Lavi, Head of Naval Operations of Israeli Navy, visited the NMIOTC’s (NATO Maritime Interdiction Operational Training Centre) premises. The Israeli Rear Admiral was accompanied by Rear Admiral Ainian Konstantinos Mazarakis HN, Commander in Chief of Hellenic Fleet. The scope of his visit was to be informed about [...]
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The defence ministry says it will withdraw a frigate, the Hydra, from a European Union naval operation against piracy in the Horn of Africa, because of budget cuts. The frigate will sail home this week, a month early, and not return to the mission later this year, saving the government 7.5m euros. The vessel was [...]
Continue reading …THE CHIEF/HNDGS ATTENDED A CO-TRAINING EXERCISE OF HELLENIC – US SPECIAL FORCES (UPDATED)
February 18, 2012 1 Comment
Update: New photos from the joint exercise were released by the American side. The US participation involved a USN MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter of the Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 28, based in Naples and men of the US Special Boat Team, Naval Special Warfare. Source: ptisidiastima.wordpress.com ————— On Friday, 10 February 2012, the Chief/HNDGS, General Mikhail Kostarakos, [...]
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Following its passage south through the Red Sea, the HS HYDRA will join the multi-national EU NAVFOR off the Horn of Africa on February 4, 2012. HS HYDRA is a MEKO 200HN type multiple role frigate which has been in the service of the Hellenic Navy since March 1992. She has a displacement of 3,350 [...]
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Regarding a bribe case linked to two former senior executives of Ferrostaal AG and their action in Greece and Portugal between 2000 and 2003, a Munich court proceeded to impose a 140 million fine in the company. According to a telegraph by the Bloomberg news agency, despite its large amount, the fine does not cease [...]
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Defencenet.gr exclusively presented the first photos and initial conclusions from the large exercise “Astrapi” of the Hellenic Navy held in central southern Aegean during the second week of December. It was one of the largest mobilizations of the Fleet and it was not a single exercise but four of them evolving simultaneously. Thus, apart from [...]
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The Minister of National Defence Mr. Dimitris Avramopoulos attended the EU Defence Ministers Summit and the European Defence Agency’s Steering Board, which took place in Brussels. In addition, he joined the minister of Foreign Affairs Mr. Stavros Dimas, in the Meeting of Ministers of Defence and of Foreign Affairs. The European Defence Agency (EDA) approved [...]
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The new MoD Dimitris Avramopoulos visited the Naval Base at Salamis. More specifically the MoD visited the new Type 214 submarine ‘Papanikolis’, the submarine PROTEUS and the frigate SPETSAI. On the occasion of his visit we saw the first footage from inside the submarine ‘Papanikolis’, which the MoD, described as “impressive”. Επίσκεψη ΥΕΘΑ κ. Δ. [...]
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