Greece delays purchase of Eurofighter until 2008

Greece delays purchase of Eurofighter until 2008

25 May 2001

Defence Minister Akis Tsohatzopoulos, on behalf of the Greek government, has confirmed that it intends to postpone by three years, to 2008, it's contract for the purchase of 60 Eurofighter plane. This decision has had to be taken by the Greek government due to budgetary constraints and a weak economic outlook.


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The Defence Minister did confirmed that Greece still intends to purchase the 60 Eurofighter jets and retain the option to buy an additional 30, at a total cost of over 5.0 Billion euros.

Greece had indicated at the end of March that this major purchase would be delayed until after 2004. However at that time they did not confirming that they still wanted to go ahead with the purchase the Eurofighter jets.

Eurofighter is a joint project by the European defence giant EADS, which involves Britain, Germany, France, Italy and Spain, and BAE Systems of Britain.


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