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Greece is trying to send a message of power and deterrence in all directions, at a time when Turkey is escalating the challenges in the Aegean and Cyprus EEZ.
Turkey’s expansionist policy does not stop in the face of the global threat of crowning, or in the face of the collapse of the Turkish economy, which is on the verge of bankruptcy.
Greece is well aware of this and, faced with a strange neighbor who can try to export the internal crisis to the Aegean at any time, it takes every opportunity to send strong messages to Ankara.
One of them is the a great aeronautical exercise “Storm 2020”, with the Greek fleet “blocking” the Aegean for 10 days from end to end. From May 11 to 20, Greek warships of all kinds will be developed in the Archipelago, in the greatest educational activity of the Navy.
This exercise is considered of utmost importance to the Armed Forces., a fact that confirms the strong element of interdisciplinarity, since in several of the operational scenarios both the Air Force and the selected units of the Armed Forces will participate.
Several units have already sailed from the Salamina Naval Base and are at sea as, starting Monday, the regular stages of the exercise are about to begin. Frigates, rocket launchers, cannonballs, submarines of all kinds, high-powered transport ships, tanks, minesweepers are ordered, one after another, to navigate.
The first phase will take place in the Sporades region and will extend to the northeast of the Aegean., with almost all the ships in our fleet carrying out the operational scenarios.
Crews expected to deploy in frigates and gunboats frogmen MYK to carry out a series of exercises, either with the help of Navy helicopters or by using boats. In fact In the last days of the exercise “KATAIGIDAS”, the regeneration of the islet is planned.
The second part of the exercise will move to the center, east and south of the Aegean Sea. In almost all phases of the exercise, Fleet ships will fire surface fire. For this reason, NAVTEXs have been issued in which the Navy has seized large areas in the Aegean, south of Crete and southeast of Karpathos and Rhodes.
The third phase will take place in the southeastern Aegean and southern Crete, in an area of extremely important and high geostrategic symbolism. Frigates, cannonballs, torpedo boats, tanks, Navy helicopters, special forces men, and submarines form a powerful strike force that will develop in a more critical area of national sovereign interests than the Turks doubt. The memorandum of illegal cooperation with the government of Tripoli. In fact, one of the scenarios of the exercise will be dealing with warships that will accompany a research ship. Something similar to the Oruc Reis case.
In specific scenarios, fleet submarines and especially the more modern 214 class are expected to play a very important role. The four “Papanikolis” class submarines participating in “KATAIGIDA 2020” are expected to “block” large marine areas by trapping each surface ship.
The Air Force is expected to play an important role throughout the exercise, supporting air operations from the air.
It is certain that in the coming days, Turkey, unable to withdraw its Navy from naval bases, will try to escalate the air tension. It does the same every time Greece “blocks” the Aegean for its entire length. However, he will again find the Greek wings in front of him and, as evidenced by the videos that see the light of day with aerial battles in the Aegean, Turkish pilots do not have a very good time when they pass the Athens FIR.
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