The new-era Hellenic Navy will be capable to do more than protect the Aegean, but will acquire capabilities of deployment in the wider East Mediterranean, National Defense Minister Nikos Dendias said at Salamina Shipyards on Monday.
Dendias represented Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis during the naming ceremony for four new Navy coastal patrol boats (Island type) at the Salamina Shipyards.
The four new boats are part of the plan to upgrade the Greek Navy, “Agenda 2030”, to which Dendias referred during the ceremony. The Agenda 2030 “foresees a powerful and modern Navy – the most modern and strongest in Greek history, which will defend Greece’s sovereignty, sovereign rights, territorial space, and European borders,” the defense minister said.
The four patrol boats were named Mantouvalos, Galanis, Liaskos, and Gialopsos, after Navy officers who lost their lives in the line of duty.
