Another 10 frigates want in Athens but the Turks do exercises in the heart of the Aegean

Turkey continues with provocative actions, this time by sending spy aircraft to the Aegean and committing areas to the heart of the archipelago for exercises.

This move confirms Turkey’s decision to carry out complete control in the Aegean until 26 meridian, faithful to the doctrine of the blue homeland.

At the same time, in Athens, the order is announced for a fourth frigate Belha@rra, but without bringing strategic weapons, and plans are made to acquire used frigates from Italy.

The Navy’s Equipment Program continues with steady and as long as the country’s budgets allow.

As was the government’s expressed will, the acquisition of the 4th frigate Belh@Rra is expected to be formalized tomorrow by the Lorian yard against the background of the « Formion » frigate, as the decision has been made and the formal approval of KYSEA, after the Commissioner.

Given that the « package » of French frigates closes with the fourth Belh@RRA, gradually turns to the other programs that have a significant degree now and with the maintenance of balances in the Aegean as the Turkish shipbuilding program has been uploaded by Turkey and has already raised  » The rockets on the islands and elsewhere but the issue of ships is equally important.

Especially since it has been pointed out by the most competent lips, Greece’s interests are not limited to the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean, which clearly also means ships in the water.

The acquisition of the two used Bergamini frigates from Italy and the modernization of the MEKO frigates is on the theoretical level the most economically plateless programs.

As for the frigates of MEKO, reminiscent of the Anti-Drone Centaur system and their modernization that has already delayed significantly, the Navy has proposed to do its own work on its own and at the absolutely necessary areas of the ships, and more specifically electronics and sensors.

Nevertheless, all scenarios are open.

Even the modernization of two of them and the decommissioning of the rest.

The acquisition of Italian frigates who are essentially destroyers is now at a highest political level.

Specifically these are the F-590 frigates « Carlo Bergamini » and F-591 « Virginio Fasan ».

The whole process, of course, depends on when the Italian Navy will receive two new frigates waiting so that it can allocate both the two specific ships in Greece and to be able to implement any request from Athens to activate the Option for the other Bergamini.

According to the « NEW » information, Athens’ intention is so much the issue of modernizing the MEKO and the acquisition of Italian ships to be completed by 2028, no later than 2029.

The aim at that time, having completed the receipt of the four « Kimon » frigates, has added at least the two Italian or four Italian and with the two or four MEKOs having ten with twelve vessels, frigate level, to water.

After there, good things, as in Greece unfortunately many things do not always go as we want, the processes for the start of the Constellation frigates will begin.

The goal is to acquire between 4 to 7 class frigates in order to withdraw MEKO and those of the « Elli » class frigates will be active.

And Athens and Ankara may be preparing for the new Mitsotakis – Erdogan meeting, which the information so far places it in July, and certainly after the NATO summit in The Hague, where the two leaders are estimated to have a brief conversation, but at military, Turkey insists on military.

Without any jurisdiction in the heart of the Aegean, Turkey issued illegal NAVTEX, committing areas to research and rescue, with the so-called « Anadolu Yıldızı-2025 ».

The exercise officially started on June 1st and will be completed on the 5th of the month, but Ankara’s moods appeared a few days ago when on May 30 after many months they sent to the Central Aegean without submitting 6 helicopters and 2 naval aircraft and intelligence aircraft.

Yesterday they returned with 3 naval cooperation aircraft and 6 helicopters.

But beyond the flying media, Turkey sent to the areas that were pledged by illegal NAVTEX and NOTAMs and surface units of its Navy and its coastguard.

The Turkish Defense Ministry’s announcement states that the exercise is « within the Turkish Research and Rescue area (SAR) », making it clear that on the opposite coast of the Aegean, they ignore the « Athens Declaration » and continue to act on the basis of the Aegean.

It should be noted that in October 2020, Turkey, with its newer Rules of Procedure (3095/2020), which explicitly refers to investigation and rescue for both marine and air accident accidents, expanded its area of ​​responsibility for investigation and rescue in the Mediterranean – within the FIR Athens – to the 26th of the 26th Crete, occupying a larger part of the Greek territory (eg islands of Kassos and Karpathos) and a Greek research and rescue area so that it is identified with the boundaries of the new expansive Turkish narrative of the « blue homeland ».