Greek F16s exercise with nuclear weapons
December 23 2014



In the planning of missions with nuclear weapons was trained in 2014 the Air Base Araxos with their super F-16s under NATO exercise. The NATO-led activity was held last March (11-13) and was called STEDFAST NERVE II with exact object "training in planning for nuclear missions".

The nuclear planning exercise of 116 Combat Wing was announced by the Defence Ministry together with the list of the main International Operations Activities attended by the Hellenic Armed Forces in 2014. It has the character of the annual report.
Bear in mind that always Araxos air base (116 CW) was incorporated in the plans for nuclear weapons of NATO, it hosted nuclear warheads (11 nuclear bombs) of the US type B61 until 2001. The bombs were removed by a secret US operation to Italy and then to an unknown location.

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For the first time were put into Araxos nuclear weapons in 1962. Greece substantially participated in nuclear NATO air force with aircraft type F-104, known as the "Strike" squadron until 1992, when these aircraft were withdrawn from the Greek arsenal. Since then it seems that it has not included combat aircraft of the nuclear power of the Alliance, although theoretically the Greek F-16 is multirole and based on its modeling can carry nuclear weapons from a technical-engineering side. However oldest reference relevant sources say that the Hellenic Air Force has not obtained the relevant necessary software from the US.

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