Air Force
Armaments Radar: L3Harris’s Viper Shield and NEARTHLAB counter-drone at the Air Force Staff, SCYTALYS telemetry and a Gulfstream V inspection
Six company presentations to Hellenic Air Force staff between October 12 and November 3, led by L3Harris’s Viper Shield electronic warfare suite for the F-16s; the Air Force also amended its SCYTALYS telemetry contract and awarded the Gulfstream V four-year inspection to Jet Aviation.
Six presentations and meetings of companies with Hellenic Air Force staff took place between October 12 and November 3, 2026, according to the official announcements of the Ministry of National Defence on the presentations. The most significant concerns L3Harris’s Viper Shield electronic warfare suite for the F-16s. In the same period the Air Force Procurement Directorate amended its contract with SCYTALYS for an air-to-ground telemetry system, and the four-year inspection of the VIP Gulfstream V was awarded to Jet Aviation.
The presentations are briefings to staff officers, and no announcement mentions a procurement decision.
L3Harris: developments in the Viper Shield for the F-16s
On Tuesday, October 20, 2026, a meeting of L3Harris representatives with the competent officers of the Hellenic Air Force General Staff took place, aimed at briefing on the latest developments of the Viper Shield electronic warfare suite for F-16 aircraft. Attending were Travis Ruhl (Director, International Business Development), Samuel Stern (Fellow Chief Engineer), Vasileios Lois and Theodoros Kouniniotis (Technical Advisors in L3Harris’s electronic warfare sector).
L3Harris had presented the Viper Shield to the Air Force Staff in October 2023 as well. For the self-protection of Greece’s F-16 Vipers, see also our opinion piece on electronic warfare needs.
NEARTHLAB: anti-drone systems
On Tuesday, November 3, 2026, South Korea’s NEARTHLAB briefed competent Air Force Staff officers on its anti-drone products. The company was represented by Soojeong Hyun (Regional Manager) and Lucas (Junghoon) Lee (Director & Head of Global Defence Business).
Satellite communications, aviation medicine and lubricants
On Tuesday, October 13, 2026, a meeting took place at the Air Force Staff with Dimitrios Andrikopoulos of IXOR and Michael Elbaz of GILAT, on GILAT’s solutions and products for aircraft satellite communications.
On Monday, October 12, 2026, at the Air Training Command, an online meeting took place between representatives of ELBIT and X-TRODES and officers of the Air Force Staff, the Air Training Command and the Health Directorate. X-TRODES presented a programme for a wireless wearable system that records in real time signals of the body’s functioning, such as brain and heart activity, with the aim of flight safety and optimising flight training.
On Friday, October 16, 2026, Austria’s AMST-Systemtechnik GmbH briefed officers of the Air Force Staff and the Aviation Medicine Centre on solutions and products for the modernisation and creation of an Aviation Medicine Training Centre. Attending were Franz Pflug (Managing Director), Cihan Erkol (Sales Manager) and Konstantinos Kostopoulos (Technical Advisor).
On Thursday, October 15, 2026, at the Air Support Command, ELDONS S.A. and NYCO presented NYCO’s lubricants to Navy and Air Force officers. Attending were Georgios Dontos (Chairman) and Lampros Lampropoulos (Sales Manager) of ELDONS and Gregory Lino Elie Flaviano and Bruno Alexandre Cacador Lamberto from NYCO’s Defence & Aeroderivative Gas Turbines sector.
SCYTALYS: telemetry system for the Air Force Test Centre
The Air Force Procurement Directorate signed on November 5, 2026 the first amendment to contract 48/26 with INTERNATIONAL INTEROPERABILITY SYSTEMS HELLAS (trade name SCYTALYS S.A.) for the “Procurement of a Telemetry System for the Flight Test Centre”. It is an Air to Ground Telemetry System, which the Air Force procures through tender Δ.12/26. The value of the contract in KIMDIS is €280,104.
The amendment shifts the delivery time. Delivery and receipt take place in two stages, and the deadline for the first stage is now October 16, 2026 (KIMDIS 26SYMV020126841).
Gulfstream V: four-year inspection at Jet Aviation
By a decision of the Deputy Minister of National Defence, posted on DIAVGEIA on November 2, 2026, the third implementing contract of framework agreement 34/24, for the periodic four-year inspections 19A and 24C of the VIP aircraft Gulfstream V with serial number 678, was awarded to Switzerland’s JET AVIATION AG (Basel). The contract price is €4,189,602.64, with 6.1% deductions and excluding VAT, from which the contract is exempt.
In October the multi-year commitment certificate for this contract had been issued, as covered in an earlier Armaments Radar. The presentations to the Army General Staff, the national defence staff and the Special Warfare Command in the same period are covered in a separate Armaments Radar.
