The Hellenic Coast Guard is looking for two maritime surveillance and patrol aircraft. Part of the cost of these aircraft will be bought with money from the European Union.
These aircraft will have an operating radius of at least 700 nautical miles (1,300 km) and will be able to stay in the air for at least 6 hours, Turkish sources said, who showed particular interest.
The Headquarters of the Coast Guard - Hellenic Coast Guard of the Ministry of Shipping and Insular Policy invites the interested economic operators to open and non-binding information meetings with the aim of informing the Service about technological developments as well as the collection information deemed essential in the context of the investigation of available solutions to upgrade the operational capacity of the Aircraft Squadron through the supply of two (02) new maritime surveillance aircraft.
The basis of the discussions is the attached technical requirements issue.
The above informative meetings will be held in person at the Ministry of Shipping./Headquarters Coast Guard building. or in exceptional cases via video conference.
Interested economic entities are requested to send a meeting request by Friday 12/05/2023, to the e-mail address [email protected] [tel. contact : (+30) 213 137 1095], specifying the desired dates and the contact details of the relevant point of contact. The date of the meetings will be determined in order of priority, in direct consultation of the Service with the interested parties.
After the end of the meeting and within a reasonable period of time, the interested economic entities are invited to provide via e-mail ([email protected]) the following:
a) detailed technical characteristics of the proposed airplane such as dimensions, performance, take-off-landing weights (MTOW-MLW), etc.
b) details of the proposed surveillance equipment,
c) indicative acquisition cost with the proposed configuration (Rough Order of Magnitude - ROM),
(d) fuel consumption data per hour of flight in the proposed configuration;
e) cost of maintenance, periodical inspections (Follow-On Support),
f) technical specifications for the construction of a suitable hangar to accommodate the two airplanes.
Aircraft manufacturers and economic entities that propose integrated solutions have the right to participate in the above procedure.
Acquisition of large ships by the Coast Guard
There are plans to acquire two corvettes from the Greek Coast Guard, upgrading the effectiveness of the regular operational capabilities of the service, but it will relieve our country of the headache, since many times Navy ships are deployed in response to Turkish provocations due to the difference in the size of the vessels.
There are probably many thoughts in the leadership of the Greek Coast Guard for even further equipment of our vessels.
One suggestion would be to equip it even with anti-tank systems, as the Turks are doing, putting the Mizrak-U UMTAS (Uzun Menzilli Tanksavar Sistemi) anti-tank missile system on their navy's new K-class fast ships.
In the Aegean sea we have a daily "war" with many forms, for this we must prepare accordingly as quickly as possible.
The essence is at some point to implement an upgrade to transform our port corps into a "branch" of the Greek navy, which will be a solution to the many problems we are currently facing in the Aegean from the "waves" of immigrants.
Moving on this "logic", we should turn part of the vessels we have into a fighting force, which can under adverse conditions even undertake naval combat missions of short "range".
Turkey is likely to put into practice many of its threats in the Aegean, which is why we must be as well prepared as possible to deal with them in any way.
