Dissolution of Infantry Battalions and mergers of camps, with the aim of achieving a higher manning in combat units, foresees the new Force Structure that will be presented tomorrow by N. Dendias.
The new force structure will be presented to Parliament tomorrow, Thursday, by the Minister of National Defense Nikos Dendias, whose main goal is the more rational organization of the Armed Forces, based on the operational needs of today’s reality.
The changes concern all three branches of the Armed Forces and today the representatives of the parties in the National Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee will be informed by Mr. Dendias at the Ministry of National Defense.
According to her Dailyfor the Army the new force structure provides definitive disbandment of at least six infantry battalions.
In addition to the dissolution of formations, whose staffing often does not even reach 20%, mergers are also foreseen.
The announced goal is for staffing to reach around 70% everywhere.
The central objective of this choice is the more efficient operation of the army, but also the unhooking from the twisted logic of maintaining camps as measures to “support” local economies and petty interests.
In formations located in border areas and in units with a small percentage of staffing, their administration (which includes three sub-units) will be closed and these personnel will be saved to strengthen other units.
There are examples that show the twisted logic that prevails to this day. In a border area there is camp which includes nothing more than a bakery. The camp will be closed and this service will be taken over by another unit, manned, which also has a bakery.
It will also close unit of the prefecture of Atticawhich has a single ammunition furnace. The staff will be transferred to another unit in Central Greece with higher capabilities and better manning. Another example is a camp in the greater area of ​​Thessaloniki that has only one subunit. All personnel will be transferred to a camp of the 3rd Army Corps with better manning conditions.
In general all underperforming camps will be closed. Mr. Dendias has stated in the past that in the final phase of unit rationalization (i.e. 2030) 132 camps will have been closed through mergers.
The new force structure also foresees specific developments in the Air Force and the Navy.
For P.A. three types of aircraft are expected to remain in service, the F-16, the Rafale and in the future the F-35. Mirage 2000-5 will be sold, F-16 bl. 50 will be upgraded to Vipers, while six more Rafales will be purchased. As is well known, by the end of the year all Phantom F-4s will be out of service.
In the new structure it is also calculated that the transport fleet (C-130 and C-27) should not have availability lower than 10-12 aircraft.
Accordingly, the Navy is projected to have four FDI frigates, for each of which an “S” will be retired (the rest will stay as long as they last), while in the more immediate future what will happen to the corvettes (probably via of the EU EPC program) and over time with the Constellation frigates.
Finally, for the first time the new force structure will include a full range of three-level air defense, covering the entire airspace of Greece from Evros to Crete.
Source: Skai
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