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Armaments Radar: DESTINUS, ICEYE, EM&E and I KNOW HOW at the Army General Staff, Space Hellas’s PANDORA at the staffs

Nine company presentations and meetings with the Hellenic Army General Staff, the national defence staff and the Special Warfare Command between October 13 and November 4: missiles and UAVs, ICEYE satellites, ground robots and counter-drone systems.

The DESTINUS RUTA cruise missile. Photo: DESTINUS.

Nine presentations and meetings of companies with staff officers of the Hellenic Army General Staff (HAGS), the Hellenic National Defence General Staff and the Special Warfare Command (SWC) took place between October 13 and November 4, 2026, according to the official announcements of the Ministry of National Defence on the presentations, posted from November 3 to 6. Standing out are DESTINUS with missile systems and UAVs, ICEYE Hellas with satellites and ISR-T software, and three companies with unmanned ground vehicles and counter-drone systems.

These are briefings to staff officers, of the kind regularly given by companies wishing to showcase their capabilities. No announcement mentions a procurement decision.

HAGS: DESTINUS missile systems and UAVs

On October 15, 2026, DESTINUS representatives presented to HAGS staff officers the company’s products in missile systems, propulsion and autonomous navigation, jet-powered and internal-combustion UAVs, and command-support products. The presentation was given by Nikolaos Kalampoukas (General Manager of ACTIS PLAN Ε.Π.Ε.), Eric Seiref (Head of Commercial Product) and Martin Steinicke (Sales Manager).

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The company had been at HAGS before, in February, when it presented drones and cruise missiles with palletised launch.

Satellites and ISR-T: ICEYE Hellas

On October 26, 2026, ICEYE Hellas briefed HAGS staff officers on “the capabilities of the new telecommunications satellites and of software with ISR-T capabilities”, that is intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and targeting. Attending for the company were Vasileios Chaloulakos (CEO), Sofia Mitoulaki (Technical Sales Lead), Angelos Ladopoulos and Vasileios Papadopoulos (FDE), Vasileios Floros (Security Officer), Vincent Mathias Ho-Tin-Noe (VP of Product) and Jouni Juha Mikael Kytomma (Product Director).

Greece already operates ICEYE radar satellites.

Unmanned ground vehicles and counter-drone

On October 30, 2026, Spain’s EM&E Group presented to HAGS staff officers its products in remote weapon stations, unmanned ground vehicles (UGV) and autonomous mortar systems. The company was represented by Fabiola Carretero Jimenez (Business Development Manager) and Ioannis Papagrigoriou, Marketing Director of NK TRAILERS TRANSPORTATION MEANS SA, which is EM&E’s legal representative in Greece. EM&E takes part together with Indra in the ARACNE counter-drone system.

On October 22, 2026, the Greek company I KNOW HOW presented to HAGS its products in ground unmanned platforms (ANTEOS), drone interception systems and command and control (C2) software. The presentation was given by Pantelis Michalis (CEO) and Emmanouil Fragkoulopoulos (CTO) of I KNOW HOW DEFENSE.

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On the same day as DESTINUS, October 15, FRA GROUP, SINTELA’s representative in Greece, presented to HAGS the ONYX surveillance system. Attending were Magnus Evelyn McEwen-King (CEO of SINTELA), Aikaterini Filomeni Velli (SINTELA engineer) and Aristidis Anargyros Roussos (ICHNOS / FRA GROUP).

Cyber defence and software

On October 20, 2026, Space Hellas presented to staff officers of the national defence staff, the Army, the Navy and the Air Force its cyber defence capabilities. A technical demonstration of the PANDORA cyber defence platform was given, and the presentation covered detection and response to cyber attacks, Cyber Threat Intelligence, Security Operations Centers, cyber exercise ranges and personnel training, information warfare and situational awareness, as well as selected results of European Defence Fund projects. Attending from the company were Ioannis Mertzanis (CEO), Sokratis Kostikoglou (General Manager for Applications and R&D), Georgios Gardikis (R&D Director), Konstantinos Galanopoulos (Defence Sector Director) and Athanasios Priovolos (Senior R&D Software Engineer).

On October 13, 2026, a working meeting was held between THALES representatives and staff officers of the General Staffs on the company’s products in the field of software. The announcement does not name specific products. Attending were Athanasios Georgiadis, Evangelos Andrianos, Jean-Christian Breul, Thierry Laurencot and Olivier Courtin.

SWC: breathing apparatus and parachutes

On November 4, 2026, at the “Lt. Col. Andreas Kallinskis” camp in Nea Peramos, Attica, Italy’s SIEL S.r.l. gave a presentation and demonstration to SWC staff of the closed-circuit oxygen breathing apparatus it makes. Attending were Massimo Foti, Pietro Cabiale, Danilo Gattoni and Alfredo Turco of SIEL and Georgios Mertyris of S.A.L.DYNE, SIEL’s legal representative in Greece.

The same day GANNUVER TRADING Ltd, official representative of the American companies Paradigm Parachutes and Sequoia Defense, presented parachute equipment to HAGS and SWC staff. Attending were Vlasios Kordatos (Sales Director of GANNUVER), Mike Rinaldi (Business Development Manager of Paradigm Parachutes), Monica Semperlotti (VP Global Growth & Partnerships of Sequoia Defense) and Jacob Riesterer (Sales Manager of Sequoia Defense).

The Air Force presentations of the same period, among them L3Harris’s on the Viper Shield, are covered in a separate Armaments Radar. We will follow whether any of the presentations leads to a formal procedure, such as a tender or a procurement decision.

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