{"id":4527,"date":"2026-05-07T20:18:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T17:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=4527"},"modified":"2026-05-07T20:18:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T17:18:00","slug":"reuters-greece-is-considering-the-purchase-of-c-390-military-aircraft-what-nikos-dendias-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=4527","title":{"rendered":"Reuters: Greece is considering the purchase of C-390 military aircraft &#8211; What Nikos Dendias said"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-path-to-node=\"0\">The <b>Minister Minister of National Defence<\/b> <b data-path-to-node=\"0\" data-index-in-node=\"26\">Nikos Dendias<\/b> said on Thursday that <b>Greece<\/b> is interested in <b data-path-to-node=\"0\" data-index-in-node=\"92\">acquisition of Brazilian <b data-path-to-node=\"0\" data-index-in-node=\"146\">Embraer<\/b> military C-390 aircraft, which are partly produced in <b>Portugal<\/b>, Reuters reported. <\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"0\">According to the same source, <b>Nikos Dendias<\/b>, who is on a <b>two-day visit<\/b> to <b data-path-to-node=\"0\" data-index-in-node=\"305\">Portugal<\/b>, made the statement after his meeting in Lisbon with his Portuguese counterpart Nuno Melo.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"1\">&#8220;We had the opportunity to discuss many issues &#8230; one of them was <b>the possibility of purchasing the C-390<\/b> aircraft,&#8221; the <b>defence minister<\/b> said. <\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"1\">He gave no further details on the <b>number of aircraft or the cost of the potential deal<\/b>. <\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"1\">Greece, which currently has <b data-path-to-node=\"1\" data-index-in-node=\"293\">C-130 and C-27<\/b> aircraft, plans to spend about <b data-path-to-node=\"1\" data-index-in-node=\"340\">$28 billion. euros<\/b> by 2036<\/b> to <b data-path-to-node=\"1\" data-index-in-node=\"373\">modernise its armed forces<\/b> as it emerges from the 2009-2018 economic crisis, the news outlet highlights.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\">Portuguese company <b data-path-to-node=\"2\" data-index-in-node=\"23\">OGMA<\/b>, a 65% subsidiary of Embraer and the rest owned by the Portuguese state, is a <b>key industrial partner in the C-390<\/b> programme, manufacturing parts of the main fuselage that are shipped to Brazil for final assembly. <\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\">Portugal<\/b> was the first European country and NATO member to order the C-390 in 2019 and has already taken delivery of some units in previous years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Defence Minister Nikos Dendias said on Thursday that Greece is interested in buying C-390 military aircraft from the Brazilian military &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}