By Tasos Kokkinidis
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced on Saturday that Greece will buy 18 new Rafale aircraft and four frigates to address the defense needs of the country.
The Greek premier, speaking in Thessaloniki, said that the defense of the country will also be boosted through the acquisition of Romeo SH-60 Seahawk helicopters, torpedoes, anti-tank and guided missiles and the modernization of the Hydra-class frigates.
He also announced the hiring of 15,000 new professional recruits and the revitalization of the Greek defense industry.
The Rafale is a French twin-engine, multirole fighter aircraft designed and built by Dassault Aviation.
Odysseas Elytis, Greek poet, in a press conference on the occasion of receiving the Nobel Prize (1979)
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