F-35 road race: The stealth aircraft team in Athens – The timetable and the background for the “invisible” future…
Photo The last time Greek fighter jets collaborated with F-35 was in the Israeli exercise Blue Flag, hence the specific image. The Greek pilots who flew as “blue” with the 5th generation fighters were impressed by the capabilities provided by the F-35 in a formation. Image source: Israeli Air Force
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The so-called “JSF” team of the company Lockheed Martin is going to pass the gate of Mesogeion Avenue on Monday morning, which works exclusively for its promotion program φά-35.
This development testifies that after what was said by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in the United States, proceedings are already underway at the Air Force Staff and the Ministry of National Defense required for Greece to move into the aviation stealth era.
The JSF team (JointStrikeFighterProgramOffice) will remain on Greek soil for at least 72 hours where in this short but catalytic period will put the revised in some points of the company proposal for φά-35 which is not excluded as well-informed sources note to talk about 2the fate from the end of the decade onwards.
In this new quarter, the electronic, technical, new, but also weapons data will be analyzed, as they are waiting for the Air Force Staff, since as it becomes known, the study with which τα φά-35 will also bring the “vocal” METEOR which Greece has already procured for the aircraft RafaleF3R.
Athens will propose MDCA
At the same time, the Greek side, as it becomes known, will raise from the beginning the issue of the delivery schedule of the first stealth aircraft to the Greek arsenal. Greek officials are well aware that the F-35 program, in conjunction with the latest bulletins dealing with the war in Ukraine, launched sales around the world and how our country at the moment reaches the queue of buyers last and… overwhelmed!
It is already preceded by Finland, which has submitted a request to join NATO, Switzerland, Germany, Spain, Romania and the Czech Republic. And they are not the only buyers of the Old Continent, because there is interest from Morocco, Egypt, the Philippines and Jordan, while as it becomes known through our sources. and Israel is focusing on acquiring second-class “invisible” aircraft.
The aviation staff will present the events and the revised defense cooperation between Greece and the United States (MDCA) as well as this allows a small advantage of Athens over other buyers.
The help of the Americans will be final in the preparation of the official letter of inquiry about the availability of the fighters 5ης generation (LOR) where its mission to the other side of the Atlantic will be essential “mat” movement because from that time onwards the time for the United States to respond counts down.
Last February the same people were the ones who had proposed the market in Greece 20 φά-35a number recommended by a warplane squadron 5ης generation, for $ 3.5 billion – unarmed.
However, everything shows that the official letter of Athens to the USA can start its journey by August.
“It’s a class on its own…”
And it is possible that the Air Force through studies and presentations understood that the F-35 is the future of the Air Force, but the written reports of the “hawks” who have already collaborated in arduous exercises with aviators of 5ης generation, were the ones that acted as catalysts for the final decision which came after the full briefing made by the pilots to the Ministry of National Defense and the government.
His first cooperative flight φά-35 with the “blue wings” was made in “Iniocho 2019”, when the Italians offered stealth aircraft to Andravida. Since then, especially in collaborations abroad, the Greek wings have been found many times to cooperate and exchange tactical information in the air in order to achieve the best way, the objective purpose of the exercise in which they participated.
Last time φά-35 collaborated with Greek φά-16 block 52 Adv in the Israeli exercise “Blue flag» which is considered one of the most demanding exercises in the world. Then the “all” elements that made the fighter 5ης 336th Squadron of the “Olympus” Squadron, brought for the Squadron of Araxos a huge series of shootings of “enemy” fighters, as a result of which the aviators talked about an aircraft that does a lot on its own and creates the conditions for survival for pilots and fighters 4ης and 4.5 generation.
However, according to information they almost found each other φά-35 and in TigerMeet, which in the end did not come due to Greek bureaucratic reasons in Araxos. But as it becomes known in the near future American stealth aircraft will fly to the 115th Battle Wing in Souda for a wide aviation “tutorial” within FIR Athens…
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