The process to make Greece’s airspace impenetrable within a few years from today has already been launched. This was emphasized, among other things, in an interview he gave to the newspaper “Parapolitika”, the Minister of National Defense Nikos Dendias.

Through the turn we attempt at new technology of the Armed Forces, with the implementation of “Agenda 2030”, the largest reform of our Armed Forces, we have included the development of defenses in air attacks, including attacks by dronesin the new ecosystem of defense technologies, of the newly established Hellenic Center for Defense Innovation (EL.K.A.K), as well as in the Long-Term Defense Equipment Planning (LDP) he mentioned.

Within this context, the minister continued, it is our priority to eliminate any lags in relation to neighboring countries, with the creation of an anti-aircraft “Dome” and “Tholo” anti-drones, which will protect the entire Greek territory.

For business “Shields“, he underlined that the crew of the “Hydra” frigate, “shows excellent professionalism under difficult conditions and remains ready to respond to any threat”.

“Up to this moment it has carried out dozens of close protection missions on merchant ships and several monitoring missions, effectively protecting free navigation in the area” he continued.

He characterized as extremely important the fact that the operational headquarters of the “Shields” is located in Greece, commanded by the Greek Vice-Admiral Vasilios Gryparis, while regarding when the “Hydra” frigate will return to the Salamis naval station and when it will be replaced by another frigate that also has the necessary self-protection measures, “this is expected to happen within the next month”.

For Greek-Turkishpointed out that “the calm on the ground is clearly welcome” but did not fail to underline that “but we must not forget that Turkey is at a critical crossroads for the direction it will choose when the President retires from active political activity Erdogan”.

For her model tenure, said that “it is being reviewed, with the aim of radical changes, not in its time or in the replacement of conscripts by professional and only executives, a possibility which we reject, as we believe in the citizens’ army, but so that it constitutes quality time and not ‘wasted’, as a significant portion of our youth believes today.” “With a fast-paced, but effective training, in line with the training of conscripts in Finland, as I had the opportunity to see during my visit to the country,” he explained.

For European electionssaid that “the possibility that citizens consider the European elections to be a ‘referendum’ exists, as happens in every election of members of the European Parliament, as no government is elected”.

“However, at this juncture, in which the forces of populism are lurking for a dynamic re-emergence, we as New Democracy must raise the stake, which goes beyond the horizon of the specific European elections, of the continuation of the reforms in our country” the minister concluded.