Welcome welcome welcome, man. It doesn't matter and especially these days where Greece is so welcomed in the Arab world that you folks are considered part of us whether you like it or not lmao. And I don't even need to mention it but with the history of Greece & Egypt and the current relationship (diplomatically, militarily & socially) it's almost like we're blood brothers & sisters.
Heck you guys were using our LHDs last year during Medusa exercise like it was yours! No one else is allowed -- in that manner -- to come near our 2 Mistrals let alone land their choppers on them and bring in armored vehicles and troops and make landings & takeoffs etc. But you guys were buzzing off those things with your Apaches and naval special forces etc. I was blown away. The only thing I think you weren't doing was navigating and captaining the ships loool. If that isn't trust in a relationship that is at it's peak and best time, I don't know what would define that!
Related to that which surprised me to some extent is how the Greek Apache pilots (without much training from Egyptian Ka-52 pilots) seemed to immediately and very skillfully land and takeoff from the deck of the two ships, despite the Hellenic Navy not having any helicopter carriers, yet.
People might think it's not that complicated, but there is a special process they have to undergo during both, landings and takeoffs which entails hovering at a certain altitude off and to the side of the ship and the landing spot away from the deck and actually over the water. Then move sideways at that specific altitude (which is something like 15-20 meters or so to line up over the marked, circle spot and once lined up, land as softly as possible. The exact reverse for takeoff. But the Greek pilots were doing it perfectly right off the bat, right away under both ship's navigational states [ships still & ships cruising] the latter of course much more difficult.
So that was definitely impressive that it seemed the Greek pilots were probably experienced from previous exercises and exact training with other forces like the French and US etc.
And you folks just signed quite the pact with Saudi Arabia a few weeks ago, no? I think there was also a UAE one somewhere in the midst of all that so you're GreekoArabio!
Yes those excercises were epic from what they said on TV here too,back then. And they were surprised that only us were allowed to use the Mistrals. Did you see footage of the new exercises between Greece,Egypt,Saudi Arabia and UAE?
