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Bayonet (made in different countries, to attach on rifles and muskets) Improvised knife (Greek made) Janbiya dagger (Arabian made) Khanjali dagger sword (Caucasian made, also known as Kinzhal) M1730 sword (Austrian made) Yatagan sabre (Turkish captured and Greek made)
Made by the Greek vehicle manufacturer ELBO, includes 90 upgraded Leonidas I. [33][68] 1,995. M113A1/1E. United States. 1,034 M113A1, 313 M113A1G (German variant of the M113A1) and 648 M113A2. Most equipped with a M2 Browning heavy machine gun, a number will be an equipped with a GMG grenade launcher.
The military history of Greece during World War II began on 28 October 1940, when the Italian Army invaded Greece from Albania, beginning the Greco-Italian War. The Greek Army temporarily halted the invasion and pushed the Italians back into Albania. The Greek successes forced Nazi Germany to intervene. The Germans invaded Greece and Yugoslavia ...
List of Greek military equipment of World War II. This is a list of equipment of the Greek/ Hellenic Armed Forces during World War II. This list does not include weapons used by the Greek resistance during the occupation of Greece.
FN M1900. FN M1903. Colt M1907 Army Special. Mannlicher M1901. Chamelot-Delvigne M1873. Colt M1927 Official Police. Nagant M1895. Bergmann Bayard M1908.
The term Hellenic is the endogenous synonym for Greek. The Hellenic Army is the largest of the three branches of the Hellenic Armed Forces, also constituted by the Hellenic Air Force (HAF) and the Hellenic Navy (HN). The army is commanded by the chief of the Hellenic Army General Staff (HAGS), which in turn is under the command of Hellenic ...
Greece's recovery from the devastation of World War II and the Axis occupation lagged far behind that of the rest of Europe. [173] About 8% of the Greek population of c. 7 million had died during the conflicts and the occupation. Sanitation conditions were deplorable, and the health of those who had survived was imperilled by a resurgence of ...
The Hellenic Armed Forces (Greek: Eλληνικές Ένοπλες Δυνάμεις, romanized: Ellinikés Énoples Dynámis) are the military forces of Greece. They consist of the Hellenic Army, the Hellenic Navy, and the Hellenic Air Force. The civilian authority overseeing the Hellenic Armed Forces is the Ministry of National Defense.