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JUST IN: Israel signed a 650 million euro defence contract in Athens on April 6 while simultaneously bombing Iran’s largest petrochemical complex, assassinating the head of IRGC intelligence, and managing a two-phase ceasefire proposal it has not agreed to. The deal is for 36 Elbit Systems PULS rocket artillery launchers, precision-guided missiles with ranges up to 300 kilometres, loitering munitions, and a ten-year support package for Greece. The buyer is not joining the Iran war. The buyer is preparing for a different adversary entirely. The PULS systems will deploy to Greece’s northeastern border and Aegean islands. The range covers western Turkey. The contract was approved by the Greek parliament in closed session in December 2025, three months before the Iran war began. The timing is the signal. A country fighting its largest war since 1973 paused long enough to close the biggest arms export deal in the Eastern Mediterranean this year. The message is not military. It is commercial and strategic. Israel is demonstrating that its defence industry operates during wartime, that its weapons are battle-tested in real time, and that its alliances extend beyond the current conflict into the structural architecture of European security. Greece is demonstrating that it views Israel, not the United States or the European Union, as its primary defence partner for the Aegean theatre. A NATO member is buying Israeli artillery to deter another NATO member. The PULS is not a conventional rocket launcher. It is a modular platform that fires seven different munition types from the same truck without repositioning. Accular 122-millimetre guided rockets at 35 kilometres with 10-metre accuracy. EXTRA supersonic missiles at 150 kilometres. Predator Hawk deep-strike rounds at 300 kilometres. SkyStriker loitering munitions that hover, identify, and strike autonomously at 100 kilometres with one-metre precision. The system gives Greece the ability to hold targets across the Aegean from fixed positions on the islands that Turkey disputes. Every launcher is a denial zone. Thirty-six launchers redraw the military geometry of the Eastern Mediterranean. The relationship between Greece and Israel has transformed in sixteen years. Before 2010, Greece voted with the Arab bloc at the United Nations and maintained minimal diplomatic contact. The Greek financial crisis opened the door. Israel offered military cooperation without political conditions. The trilateral framework with Cyprus followed, built on EastMed gas pipeline plans and joint naval exercises. Greece hosted Israeli F-16 training at Andravida. Israel sold Heron drones to Athens. The Spike missile became standard in the Hellenic Army. Now the PULS contract makes Greece one of the largest operators of Israeli precision artillery in Europe. The deal was worth 650 million euros to Elbit Systems, whose stock trades in Tel Aviv and New York. It was worth a strategic foothold in the European Union to the Israeli Ministry of Defence, which co-signed in Athens. And it was worth a 300-kilometre precision envelope to a Greek military that has spent two decades watching Turkey modernise with American, Russian, and domestic systems while NATO’s internal solidarity on Aegean sovereignty remained ambiguous. Israel is fighting a war and selling weapons on the same day. Greece is buying weapons from a country at war because the weapons work and the alliance is older than the crisis. The PULS launchers will arrive over four years. The war in Iran may not last four months. But the Aegean will still be contested when the strait reopens, and the 36 launchers that Greece signed for today will still be pointed east when the last missile in the Zagros has been fired. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…





Weighing 7 tons, up to 10 meters long and exceeding Mach 5 — the moment Türkiye unveils its first hypersonic ballistic missile, Tayfun Block-4.

Turko-Arabs will hate this reality


i need that video of kenan being absolutely flabbergasted that mckennie missed that free goal pls 😭





























