It is impossible to say that the Greeks do nothing and rely entirely on Western Europe for relief. After all, Greece is also a capitalist country that has developed for hundreds of years. Greece is still quite famous in certain fields around the world. For example, the shipping industry.

As the birthplace of ancient civilization, Greece began to explore the ocean very early. The nautical genes flowing in the blood of their people, some of these people became shipowners, and Greek shipowners have always maintained their reputation as the world's largest shipowner country. They own ships accounting for about 18% of the global fleet, and the number of ships in operation has reached 333 million deadweight tons. Athens/Piraeus has the world's largest shipowner cluster, and the main force of Greek shipowners is concentrated in bulk carriers and oil tankers field. Bulk carriers account for 47 percent of the Greek fleet, while tankers account for 35 percent.

Greece's huge civilian fleet allowed their troops to mobilize very quickly. This time, the 1st Army was dispatched on a private transport ship.

It's just that they never thought that the Turks were so insane that they dared to attack their transport ships!

Maybe the Turks were afraid of something, so the Turks didn't blatantly use planes to drop bombs, but their behavior was even more heinous. They actually used submarines to sink a Greek transport ship!

Rhode Island, east of Crete, is very close to the coastline of Turkey, and the hydrological conditions below are complicated. This kind of underwater is the best hiding place for submarines!

Although the Greek transport fleet was escorted by warships, they still couldn't find the underwater submarine, so they were caught and a transport ship was sunk!

If it is a transport ship built according to military specifications, it may be able to hit a torpedo without sinking, but now, ordinary civilian ships cannot be compared with military ships in terms of sinking resistance!

On the surface of the sea, the transport ship Kurt Rod was slowly sinking. The stern of the ship had completely entered the sea surface, leaving only the bow of the ship raised high. Countless soldiers densely covered the entire sea surface.

Before the ship sank, it was lucky to be able to jump into the water, but not everyone could swim, and some lives were taken away forever by a burst of waves!

The nearby ships are doing their best to rescue the compatriots who fell into the water. At the same time, the destroyer escorting nearby has released a helicopter, trying to find the Turkish submarine.

Kriezis, belonging to the Keeling class of the United States, is a type of general-purpose destroyer built during World War II. More than 100 ships have been built successively. However, many of them have not caught up with World War II. Like the current ship, it is painted in the shipyard of the United States. The hull number of DD-817 was given, and it was named Corry Corry, and it was not entered service until 45.

In the establishment of the US Navy for more than 20 years,

Just this year, it was sold to Greece and renamed Kriezis.

When it was just built, this kind of destroyer was just an artillery destroyer, and its main weapon was three Mk.32 twin 5-inch high-level dual-purpose guns. However, in this era, it is no longer possible to turn naval battles into battleships. It is possible, so the Keeling class has also been improved, equipped with new sonar and radar, and also has Sea Sparrow anti-aircraft missiles and helicopter hangars.

The captain of the Kriezis, Papasta, was full of anger. As the escorting warship, they shouldered a heavy responsibility! Now, find out the Turk's submarine and kill it!

Although it is the latest destroyer sold by the United States to Greece, the performance of the electronic equipment of this destroyer is not advanced. It can be said that it is the technology of the United States in the 1970s. I want to use the shipboard sonar to detect the complicated water flow on the seabed. It is quite difficult to disembark the submarine, so at this time, they rely more on shipboard helicopters.

Compared with the Seahawk helicopter, the main force of the US Navy in later generations, the 500MD anti-submarine helicopter is simply pocket-sized.

This small helicopter was developed from a civilian model, with skid landing gear, a total length of no more than seven meters, four propellers, and a radius of movement of only one hundred kilometers.

However, a distance of 100 kilometers is enough, and it is less than 100 kilometers away from the coastline of Turkey!

Helicopter pilot Lazaros, driving this small helicopter, flies over the sea and releases sonar buoys from time to time. As an anti-submarine helicopter, their mission is to find out the underwater enemies!

This act of undeclared war is very shameful! The original hatred between Greece and Turkey made them all filled with righteous indignation.

No underwater movement was found, the sonar operator said.

Continue to fly north, the Turks' submarine must want to return to their territorial waters! Lazaros pushed the joystick, and the helicopter continued to fly north!

Kriezis called 500MD, Kriezis called 500MD, and found two fighter planes flying from the direction of Turkey, be careful not to enter the airspace of Turkish territorial waters. At this moment, the voice of a warship came from the headset.

The warship's radar found that the Turks' fighter planes were flying over. Obviously, they wanted to interfere with their own anti-submarine operations and cover their submarines from escaping! Turks, really shameless!

At this time, the soldiers of the Greek navy were very angry. They ignored a detail. The Turkish air force would definitely not help cover the navy submarines!

Because, the Turkish Air Force and Navy have an absolute hatred like the sea. Among the military equipment of all countries in the world, only the three armed forces of Turkey are so wonderful.

In 1974, a fierce conflict broke out between Turkey and Greece in order to compete for Cyprus. In July of that year, the Turkish Air Force discovered a destroyer fleet of the Greek Navy off the coast of Cyprus. Turkey, which did its part, immediately dispatched F-100 and F-104 fighter jets to take off with bombs. They fought one after another, fighting with blood. The combat efficiency of the Turkish Air Force is indeed not low, and they killed 3 destroyers of the Greek Navy!

The Turkish Air Force was triumphant and asked the Ministry of Defense for credit. It was not until this time that they realized what an earth-shattering event they had done! They sank the destroyer Kakadebe, severely damaged the destroyer Adadebe and Marshal Fevchichakmark. These warships are all the property of the Turkish Navy. Soldiers died, accounting for a quarter of the total Turkish military casualties in this war!

At the same time, the Turkish warship also used anti-aircraft guns to fight with its own fighter planes until the last moment, and landed an F-104 fighter jet of the Turkish Air Force.

Now, not only Turkey and Greece have enmity, but also enmity between the Turkish Air Force and Navy.

In later generations, in 2006, two F-16 fighter jets from Greece and Turkey collided in the Aegean Sea. After the ejection, the F-16 pilot of the Turkish Air Force refused the request from the Turkish Navy to send him back to the shore. A small boat transported by a Panamax-class freighter returned to Turkey on its own. When the war was about to break out, both the Air Force and the Navy distrusted each other and had deep grievances.

The fighter planes that flew over belonged to the genuine Turkish Air Force, and the submarines on the bottom of the sea definitely did not belong to the Turkish Navy!

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