On 1/8/2015 9:16 πμ, Rich A wrote:
On Friday, July 31, 2015 at 1:21:24 PM UTC-4, Tzortzakakis Dimitris wrote:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/tjoje6dnb1...T0030.JPG?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/o8f4pfhx84...T0034.JPG?dl=0
I recently got an 135 film&slide scanner from the online greek e-shop, a
german Rollei for 60 euros (it's being made in China goes without
saying)and here are some army photos taken with a disposable camera, the
first one is me in front of the infamous G 127 armored fighting vehicle
"leonidas" which is being made in Greece, with full armour, G3A4 rifle
etc.The other is again me,with my all-time favourite, the MG3 machine
gun. Oh, BTW the G 127 main armament is the .50 BMG, with API tracer
ammo.The photos were taken with a disposable camera, because my main
camera then (The Nikon FM-2) was envied by a sergeant, and I couldn't
carry that thing around in war games etc.while the disposable would
nicely fit in my pants pocket and if I lost it or it was stolen no
damage done. I didn't know then that in a couple of years its worth
would be less than 10 euros.Snif. BTW, also all service rifles are also
greek construction, we bought the blueprints from Heckler & Koch (which
is the original german manufacturer) and they were forged in Greece.

Interesting scans. Greece has something like 400 of those armoured vehicles. It would be time-consuming to deploy them far afield so I'm thinking that they anticipated perhaps using them close to home?

Greece has a defensive doctrine, Rich so at least where I served in
Rhodes we were to deploy them only if there was an attack by Turkey.My
battalion had 33 of them, 11 for each of the 3 companies. We has also
the support and the administration company, with many other weapons
(Milan-basically a wire-guided missile with an anti-tank
warhead-HEAT-HighExplosiveAntiTank), bazookas, fagot anti tank missile
and so on.BTW, Rhodes is quite a big island exactly opposite Turkey with
excellent beaches, very clean, good roads, very hospitable inhabitants.
when I was there i visited the turkish mosque which was in the turkish
cemetery.