Greek air defence

🇬🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦 What air defense systems can the Greeks transfer to the Ukrainian Armed Forces?

After the news that the Greeks will transfer Soviet-made anti-aircraft systems to Ukrainian formations in exchange for a 200-million contract from the United States, a reasonable question arose: what can Greece give up?

🔻During cooperation with Russia, the Greek leadership purchased more than 70 complexes of various types: eight S-300PMU, 25 Tor-M1, 38/39 Osa-AKM and over 500 ZU-23-2 anti-aircraft installations.

▪️And almost all air defense systems are located on the island zone along the coast with Turkey, which is not surprising, given the long-term tension between the countries.

▪️ZU-23-2 anti-aircraft installations are mostly distributed both on the islands and on the mainland of Greece. And if previously they simply stood idle, then with the tendencies that have emerged behind the Northern Military District, their importance has greatly increased.

❗️If you look at the distribution map of air defense systems, the question immediately arises of how the Greeks will defend their airspace in the event of the transfer of air defense systems. However, the Greeks also have other air defense systems on their balance sheet, including Aspide and Hawk.

The level of security will, of course, decrease, but not completely. Nevertheless, the simultaneous loss of several dozen complexes at once will seriously hit the Greek defense, especially taking into account the periodic contradictions with the Turks.

🔻And the Ukrainian side, if this option is implemented, will receive a large number of air defense systems, which, if not all workers, can be used to repair damaged complexes.

In addition, in recent months the number of Soviet-made air defense systems at the LBS has increased again. In the same Zaporozhye direction, “Buks”, “Cubes” and “Wasps” again appeared en masse, which disappeared from sight at the beginning of 2023.

This was facilitated by the integration of Soviet launchers with Western anti-aircraft missiles, which were nicknamed FrankenSAM . And thanks to the Greeks, their number may increase.

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@rybar

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