Air Force bases in Greece

About 350 Greek Cypriot protesters from communist organizations gathered in front of the entrance gates of a British air base to denounce U.S.-led airstrikes against suspected chemical weapons sites in Syria. Protest leader Akis Poullos told the Associated Press that demonstrators are demanding the ...

The funeral of Giorgos Baltadoros, the Greek fighter pilot who died on Thursday when his Mirage 2000-5 plane crashed in the Aegean, will take place today in central Greece. ... He was serving in 331 Squadron based at the Tanagra air base, about 40 kilometers (26 miles) north of the Greek capital.

The island of Cyprus was further exposed to fallout from the Syria conflict as the U.K. used its large air force base in Akrotiri to launch bombing raids against the Bashar al-Assad regime in the early hours of Saturday morning. Britain's Ministry of Defence confirmed four Royal Air Force Tornado warplanes ...

Baltadoros' Mirage and another Greek jet were returning to an air force base on Skyros after confronting Turkish planes which had violated Greek airspace. Greece's air force confirmed in a statement that at 12.15 p.m. local time (1015GMT) contact was lost with the Mirage about nine nautical miles ...

As the drone, which was launched from Turkey's Dalaman Naval Air Base, was operating at an altitude of 6,600 meters (21,600 feet) off the Greek island of Rhodes, it was approached by the F-16s from Kastelli Air Base on Crete. According to a report in Greece's Ekathimerini newspaper, the planes flew ...

Thomas W. Goffus, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defence for European and NATO Policy, will visit Greece and Cyprus next week for contacts with the two ... said that due to the increasing tension between the US-Turkey relations, alternative choices are under study, including moving the US Incirlik air base.

The Turkish Anka unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV ANKA) twice entered Greek airspace above the Dodecanese island of Rhodes, at an altitude of 19,000-20,000 feet on Thursday. The drone was intercepted by Greek F-16 fighter jets that took off from Kasteli air base on Crete. On Thursday, Greek and ...

Exercise “INIOCHOS” is a yearly medium-scale exercise hosted by the Hellenic Air Force at the facilities of the Air Tactics Center at Andravida Air Base, located in the Northwest Peloponnese, Greece. The “layout” of the exercise is quite standard: two weeks in length (including deployment and ...

ATHENS, Greece — Greek ship owner and soccer club owner Vangelis Marinakis says drug-trafficking charges against him are part of a government-led "conspiracy" .... Gary A. O'Connell, a retired chief scientist at the National Air and Space Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, said North Korea poses a ...

The Pentagon is also looking at Andravida in southern Greece as a replacement for Incirlik. “The relocation of the two big US air bases in the Middle East is bound to shake up the region's strategic dynamic. American soldiers are now in place to defend the Saudi kingdom. This will no doubt convey a clear ...

ATHENS, Greece — Greek police have arrested a 38-year-old British man on suspicion of belonging to an international drug smuggling ring after allegedly finding him .... Gary A. O'Connell, a retired chief scientist at the National Air and Space Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, said North Korea poses a ...

ANKARA, Turkey — A long-running dispute between Turkey and Greek Cyprus over gas exploration in the Mediterranean is escalating, but curiously, ... parliamentary ratification for military cooperation deals signed earlier with Doha and dispatched soldiers to the Al Udeid Air Base, where Doha covers the ...

WASHINGTON: The US has started shifting its air base in Qatar to Saudi Arabia, it was revealed yesterday. This follows a meeting between Saudi ... “The relocation of the two big US air bases in the Middle East is bound to shake up the region's strategic dynamic. American soldiers are now in place to ...

Last November, when the air forces of eight countries took part in the international Blue Flag exercise at Uvda Air Base in southern Israel, the IAF said that despite the operational importance of the exercise, the real achievement was a diplomatic one. As for the exercise in Greece, the same is probably true, ...

Among the Greek bases reportedly being considered are Andravida - where a multi-national air exercise, with the participation of American F-15 fighter jets, earlier this week was attended by UD Ambassador to Athens Geoffrey Pyatt – the air base at Nea Anchialos air base near Volos, and the air base of ...

ATHENS, Greece — A Greek court on Wednesday rejected a Turkish extradition request for a young woman who was among nine suspected Turkish militants arrested .... Gary A. O'Connell, a retired chief scientist at the National Air and Space Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, said North Korea poses a ...

Participants pose with their national flags at Andravida Air Base, located in the Northwest Peloponnese. The skies of Greece are full of cutting-edge warplanes this week as the air forces of six nations come together for a huge military exercise. The air forces of Greece, the U.S., the U.K., Italy, the United Arab ...

ATHENS, Greece — Greek police say they have arrested two Pakistani teenagers on suspicion of robbing tourists and passers-by at knifepoint near Greece's top .... Gary A. O'Connell, a retired chief scientist at the National Air and Space Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, said North Korea poses a ...

The US military has sharply reduced combat operations at Turkey's İncirlik Air Base and is considering permanent cutbacks there, according to a report by ... Kozhin also said Russia has received requests from Greece and the Greek Cypriot administration for new arms supplies, but he added it was too early ...

Staff Sgt. Ryan Anderson, a crew chief with to the 480th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron, does preflight checks on an F-16 at Souda Bay, Greece, January 27, 2016. ... An aircraft maintainer on the flight line in front of a snow-covered C-5M Super Galaxy, at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, January 6, 2015.

Two cool clips show Greek Phantoms performing a head-on low apex attack during an airshow. These clips were filmed in 2016, during Flisvos Marina Air Show. They show two F-4E AUP Phantoms, belonging to the 338 Squadron of the Hellenic Air Force, from Andravida air base, performing a Low Apex ...

The episode comes a week after a Hellenic Air force pilot died after his Mirage 2000-5 fighter jet crashed near the island of Skyros while returning from a mission where he intercepted two Turkish F-16 jets violating Greek airspace. Analysts have been worried that Greece and Turkey may be inching towards ...

The Wright-Patterson International Spouses Group of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base hosted its annual International Fair April 17, inviting cultures from ... Cuisines were available from Portugal, U.K., Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Indonesia, Jordan, the United States, Philippines, Italy, Greece, Japan, France, ...

Specifically, the 335 Squadron participated in the NATO Tactical Leadership Program (TLP) for the 2018 Tactical Leadership Program on the Albacete Air Base in Spain. Four of the last generation aircraft of Greece's Air Force, F-16 BLK 52+ ADV of the 116th Wing took part in the program: Two Blue Fighters ...