With the authorization of the Minister of National Defense Mr. Nikolaos Panagiotopoulos, the General Director of GDDIA, Lieutenant General (Ret) Theodoros Lagios HAF and the Director of the International Defense Cooperation Directorate (SIBAT), Brigadier General (Res) Yair Kulas, signed on Friday, April 16, 2021, a Defence Transnational Agreement between Greece and the State of Israel for the establishment of an International Flight Training Center at the 120 Flight Training Wing, in Kalamata.
The Agreement gives a final solution to the chronic problem of the training of the pilots of the Hellenic Air Force with satisfactory adequacy of flight hours and new means of training, while at the same time substantially strengthening the strategic cooperation between Greece and Israel.
Present at the signing ceremony were the Defence and Military Attaché of the State of Israel in Greece, Colonel Yossi Pinto, and the President and CEO of Elbit Systems, Mr. Benhalel (Butzi) Machlis and Israeli Delegation.
All necessary measures against the spread of COVID – 19, were observed throughout the meeting.
