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The Hellenic Armed Forces ( Greek: Eλληνικές Ένοπλες Δυνάμεις, romanized :Ellinikés Énoples Dynámis) are the military forces of Greece. They consist of the Hellenic Army, the Hellenic Navy, and the Hellenic Air Force . The civilian authority overseeing the Hellenic Armed Forces is the Ministry of National Defense .
The III Hellenic Army Corps / NATO Rapid Deployable Corps – Greece, abbreviated NRDC-GR (Greek: Γ' Σωμα Στρατού), is an operational headquarters of the Hellenic Army, intended for the direction of international operations undertaken by the European Union and NATO. The HQ was originally going to replace the III Army Corps of the ...
The types consist of 1 VIP, 1 SAR, 1 medical evacuation, and 2 troop transportation helicopters. [ 70 ] [ 71 ] After the VIP helicopter crash in 2012 in the French Alps, in 2013, the Albanian side asked Eurocopter (now Airbus) to cancel the arrival of the last helicopter and its conversion to two light Eurocopter EC145 M helicopters.
Some of the military equipment developed locally have been: Small arms. Dror light machine gun. IWI Negev light machine gun. Uzi submachine gun. Uzi machine pistol. Desert Eagle semi-automatic pistol. Jericho 941 semi-automatic pistol. BUL M-5 semi-automatic pistol.
Hrim-2 TBM OTRK Sapsan 1 prototype [241] In development, with a range of 480 km and a maximum payload of about 1.5 tons. [242] Korshun-2 Short range cruise missile: TBA In development, with a range of between 50 and 350 km and a payload of half a ton (around 450 kg). The missile has been in development since 2014. [243]
The Sabrah light tank is series of armored fighting vehicles developed by Elbit Systems to cater to the Philippine Army's light tank/tank destroyer requirement. The tracked light tank configuration is based on ASCOD 2 platform, supplied by Spanish manufacturer GDELS - Santa Bárbara Sistemas. [ 2] The wheeled light tank configuration is based ...
The tank can cross 0.8 m high vertical obstacles, 2.85 m trenches, 30° side slopes and ford 1.4 m deep water obstacles (5 m when equipped with a snorkel). [2] [3] [4] The Type 62 light tank is protected by steel armour. The front armour on the turret is 50 mm thick while armour thickness on the hull armour varies from 15 mm to 35 mm.
Prior to the late 1980s, a Soviet tank company within a Motorised Rifle Regiment consisted of a company headquarters and three tank platoons with T-64, T-72 or T-80 tanks for a total of 39 personnel and 13 tanks; companies using the older T-54, T-55 or T-62s tanks had 13 additional enlisted personnel. Companies within Tank Regiments or ...