New Greek Turkish tensions on Aegean

Navy helicopters hunted for 7 hours "unknown" submarine north of Kea

15-01-2011

Unidentified submarine, which allegedly was one of the two Turkish for three days, "moving" north and south of Andros Island of Skyros (one is probably the 209/1200 S-352 TCG DOLUNAY), "intercepted" yesterday morning combined company four helicopters S-70, according to information from sources defencenet.gr Navy, 5 miles north of Andros. The General Staff confirmed the existence of Turkish submarines in the area north of men, but does not confirm the incident Kea. The sources, however, that transmit the relevant information is valid, but as we have said there is no official confirmation. The pursuit of the unknown submarine began yesterday morning and lasted until the afternoon. More specifically, two helicopters, S-70 B-6 Aegean Hawk which were sent to operational training routine maintenance discovered accidentally by the radar trace of the unknown submarine periscope. Indeed, yesterday confirmed that the same hours two such helicopters flew a similar mission on the same just hours stating that the incident occurred in this region. Then when the submarine became aware of the presence of Greek helicopters dived trying to escape from the area so the helicopters to drop sonar to continue tracking. The chase was continued for some time and in rushed two same type of helicopters on standby on the Kotroni to replace the first two already tried. The chase continued through the afternoon with a total duration of 7 hours. This fact, if we were to land referred to each other than is considered normal and could be regarded as aggression because the submarine was in a dive while international regulations is expected to be a diver. However, the information has been verified from two unofficial independent sources So far not identified the nationality of the submarine.