On March 4, 2025, Defense Minister Nikos Dendias will present the ambitious 12-year Greek armament program worth 28 billion euros.
The Long-term Defence Equipment Planning (LTDEP 2025-2037) focuses on the technological upgrade of the Greek Armed Forces.
Greek air/naval Dome of Achilles
The implementation of the “Achilles Shield” program, an integrated air defense, missile protection and anti-drone system, what until recently we simply called “dome”, was announced by Minister of National Defense Nikos Dendias.
“On March 4, I will present to the competent Parliamentary Committee, also for the first time in the history of our country, a 10 plus 10 year armament program. The armament program of the next decade and the armament program of the next 20 years,” said Nikos Dendias.
“I will refer for a minute to what we call the Shield of Achilles. Why do we call it the Shield of Achilles? Because if you remember from the Iliad, the shield of Achilles had five different levels. The shield that Hephaestus made for him, when Hector took his first shield from the dead Patroclus and asked his mother to make him new weapons, then his mother posed to him, to remember the story, the existential dilemma: Will you live or will you avenge your friend and die for it. And Achilles for the first time becomes the tragic personality and chooses to die for his friend and his homeland. To achieve this, he was given a shield that Hephaestus made with five different levels.”
“So the Achilles’ Dome that we are building now to defend our homeland also has five levels. Anti-missile, anti-drone, anti-aircraft, anti-ship, anti-submarine, five. To shield our homeland in every way.”