        Yasus, Ti kanis; (Loosely translated as 'Howdy, How you doin'?)

        I'll bet your first thought as you were unzipping this one was
'Cripes, what a lot of files!' Serves me right for doing entire navies at a
time I suppose...
        Yes, this contains just about anything of any note that the Hellenic
Navy, inheritors of a proud seafaring tradition has. Officially it is there
to protect Greek territory, for fishery protection, and to bolster Nato's
Southern Flank. In actuality, its prime purpose is to annoy the Turks. As you
are doubtless aware, Greece and Turkey don't particularily like each other, 
and last year they were the two largest importers of arms in the world. What
makes this fair is that whatever the Greeks have, the Turks will get, and vice
versa.
        For those that think things are quiet, I remind you that a good half-
dozen fighters a year are lost as a result of entanglements with opposing
aircraft. They are never shot down, just fly into the sea during maneuvering
or are run out of fuel. My Uncle, who served his time in the Greek Air Force
informed me that aircraft on patrol on the Eastern areas carry war shots.
This makes for fun scenarios:- No longer is the Red side with its MiG-21s 
outclassed by the Blues with F-16s... Both sides have F-16s...Come to think
of it they also both have F-4s, F-5s, AB.212s, Gearings, Meko 200s, Type 209s, 
M48s, M109s, and kitchen sinks!

        Note to any pro-Turks out there:- Sorry if I come across as a little
pro-Greek, I am half Greek. It's not intentional!

        Anyway, to business. Enclosed in this ZIP file are:- (Names in 
        brackets are the names ships had in their original navies)

        PAPA.TPF        Papanikolis, and Katsonis. Guppy class subs, ancient
        GLAV.TPF        Type 209s, modified to fire Harpoon missiles. These
                        are quite decent. Also Posydon.
        NERE.TPF        Glavkos class, without Harpoons. Also Triton, Proteus,
                        Amphitrite, Okeanos and Pontos.
        FORM.TPF        Ex-US Charles F. Adams: Formion (Joseph Strauss), 
                        Konon (Richard E. Byrd), Kimon (Semmes), Themistocles 
                        (Berkeley), Nearchos (Waddell).
        MIAO.TPF        Lots of guns... Not likely to survive. A former 
                        USS Ingraham. (Current one is a Perry)
        ASPI.TPF        Aspis (D 06), Velos (D 16), Lonchi (D 56), 
                        Sfendoni (D85).
        KANA.TPF        Gearings with an attitude: Kanaris (Stickell),
                        Kountouritis (Rupertus), Sachtouris (Arnold J. Isbell)
                        Tompazis (Gurke).
        APOS.TPF        Slightly more timid Gearings. (No Harpoons)
                        Apostolis (Charles P. Cecil), Kriezis (Miles C. Fox)
        THEM.TPF        Gearing with virtually no attitude whatsoever: 
                        Ex- USS Fort Knox.
        THRA.TPF        Knoxes, transferred about the same time as the Adams.
                        Makedonia (Vreeland), Thrace (Trippe), Epirius 
                        (Connole)
        ELLI.TPF        Elli and Limnos. Two Dutch-built Frigates. Slightly
                        more modern than the Gearings...But then that ain't
                        too hard...
        MEKO.TPF        The Greeks are buying four of these, but I don't have
                        any names for them. Assume they will be taking over
                        from the Aetos class. The fourth is due to be commed
                        in 1997.
        AETO.TPF        Aetos (D01) (Slater), Ierax (D31) (Elbert), Leon (D54)
                        Panthir (D67)
        ANTH.TPF        La Combattante II. (Note, the Lybian La Combattante II
                        that 360 put in is actually a La Combattante IIG and
                        should have a top speed of 39kts). 
                        Anthipoploirhos Anninos, Ipoploirhos Arliotis, 
                        Ipop. Konidis, Ipop. Batsis.
        ANTI.TPF        Antiploirhos Laskos, Plotarhis Blessas, Ipop. Mikonios
                        Ipop. Troupakis. La Cobattante III FAC(M/T)
        SIME.TPF        Simeoforos Kavaloudis, Anthipoploirhos Kostakos,
                        Ipop. Deyiannis, Sim. Xenos, Sim. Simitzopoulos,
                        Sim. Starakis. (If you haven't guessed, I couldn't
                        be bothered to type out the full names.. <G> )
        HESP.TPF        Hesperos, Kentauros, Kyklon, Lelaps, Skorpios, Tyfon.
                        Three others were bought for spare parts. Lurssen
                        TNC-42 FAC(T)s.
        OPSR.TPF        Osprey 55 class FAC(M)s. Useful, if slow. Names
                        unknown.
        NAFR.TPF        Nafratoussa. Formerly USS Fort Mandan (LSD21)
        JASO.TPF        Five of these LSTs are to be built/have been built, 
                        my sources are sketchy...
        LSM1.TPF        An ancient thing, the Greeks have 5. (China has 14,
                        Paraguay 1, Philippines 4, S. Korea 7, Taiwan 4, 
                        Thailand 3, Vietnam 3.
        LST1.TPF        Also old. Brazil has 1, China 13, Ecuador 1, Greece 4,
                        Indonesia 7, Malaysia 2, Philippines 24, Singapore 5,
                        S. Korea 8, Taiwan 21, Thailand 4, Turkey 2, Vietnam 3
        INOU.TPF        Inouse L104, Kos. L116. Old LSTs.

                        There should be .TXT files to go with them, so you can have 
some descriptions to go along.

        As for the Air Force, you are looking at (Off the top of my head),
        40 Mirage 2000, 33 Mirage F1CG, 80 F-16C/D, 49 A-7H (A-7D with a better engine), 
	  36 A-7E on order/recently delivered, 60+ F-5A/B, 8 RF-5A, 10 NF-5A/B, 
        90+ F-104G, 75 F-4E, 25 RF-4E, 4 P-3B, 47 T-33A, 31 T-37B, 36 T-2E,
        12 AH-64A.


        'Luck.
			NOTE....
		At the time of revision, the HUD, to which this set of TPFs is to be compatible,
has the STIR as controlling a maximum of 4 fire control targets. Whilst I can understand the
rationale behind the move (It was designed for allowing in the 'inertial' capability of SM2 and 
AEGIS), I must disagree with it in this context. The RIM-7 Sea Sparrows embarked on the Greek 
ships (And indeed, also the SM1s on Perrys) are 'Home-all-the-way', and so the STIR can never
illuminate more than one target for these SAMS. Therfore, as you install these TPFs, you should
end up with a duplicate STIR. This is identical to the one in the HUD, except for the number
of intercepts it can direct.
		The above remarks also go for the SPG-51 directors on the Formion (Charles F. Adams)
class ships.

                                Nicholas T. Moran

        		nicholas_moran@ie.ibm.com OR rifles@ollamh.ucd.ie
