Extremely optimistic that she will succeed Hellas to create an ecosystem of defense industries, “which will be able to produce innovative products that meet the existing and recorded needs of the Greek Armed Forces, said the Minister of National Defense, Nikos Dendiasin an interview with him in the context of the BEYOND 2024 exhibition, in Thessaloniki.
As he said, a new framework will be created, the Hellenic Center for Defense Innovationwhich will take the needs of Armed forces and will announce them to this ecosystem.
Priority, he pointed out, will be given to creation of two domes, an anti-aircraft and an anti-drone domefor which the sum of 2 billion euros has been pledged
Mr. Dendias emphasized that our defense ecosystem offers to the GDP the negligible, as he characterized it, 0.74% and added that Greece buys equipment from abroad “to be able to maintain our independence, our territorial integrity, and to do this we must at least be in a phase that allows us to respond to the challenges of our environment”
“As you know, Greece – I always say – it’s not Luxembourg, not all our friends are next door, they don’t throw carnations at us. You look at the shipbuilding program of, for example, our neighbor Turkey. Look at our neighbor Turkey’s drone program. We must have a reasonable response to them. I’m not saying let’s get into a competition of who will be first. We want to defend ourselves, but to be able to have a deterrent option,” he said.
Answering a related question, Mr. Dendias said that technologies and capabilities were found in the ODA that, if developed, will surprise us allbut added that there was a complete lack of connection with the Greek armed forces and the defense ecosystem.
He characterized the Constellation program, which we are co-designing with the US, as a huge opportunity, which provides for the production of frigates in Greek shipyards and service on its ships Mediterraneanher Red Sea and his Indian. “So, we are talking about a job that will take 60-70 years in our shipyards”, he added
Finally, when asked about Central Macedonia, for which the prime minister appointed him coordinator, he underlined that “there is a current of populism, which mainly comes from the right, and which threatens all the parties that follow the path of European integration ».
“We have to fight here to overturn what polls say, it makes no sense to tell you, but I’ve seen the measurements, you’ve seen them too, we have to try a little. I wouldn’t be here otherwise. Well, I hope, I always hope, in the strength of the argument. I understand that we are starting from a point that is not the best, but we also have positives. I saw the Prefect before, a 70% Prefect. We have forces in Local Government. So I think we’ll be fine. But it takes effort,” he emphasized.
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