{"id":20613,"date":"2026-08-31T11:47:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T11:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/31\/israel-greece-sign-e3-1bn-achilles-shield-air-defense-deal-in-tel-aviv-greek-city-times\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T11:47:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T11:47:12","slug":"israel-greece-sign-e3-1bn-achilles-shield-air-defense-deal-in-tel-aviv-greek-city-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/31\/israel-greece-sign-e3-1bn-achilles-shield-air-defense-deal-in-tel-aviv-greek-city-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel, Greece sign \u20ac3.1bn \u2018Achilles Shield\u2019 air-defense deal in Tel Aviv \u2013 Greek City Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-first=\"S\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TEL AVIV \u2014 Israel and Greece signed a \u20ac3.1 billion air-defense agreement on Monday, the largest defense deal ever concluded between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The program, known as Achilles Shield, will combine Rafael\u2019s David\u2019s Sling and SPYDER systems with Israel Aerospace Industries\u2019 BARAK MX into an integrated, nationwide network against ballistic missiles, aircraft and drones. Full operational capability is targeted within 35 months, with capabilities fielded in stages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under the terms of the deal, Greek industry will receive more than 25 percent of the work\u2014more than \u20ac700 million\u2014and Athens will obtain source-code access so it can operate and sustain the system\u2019s software independently. The agreement was signed at Israeli Defense Ministry headquarters in Tel Aviv.<\/p>\n<footer class=\"article-tags entry-footer\">\n<div>\n\t\t<strong>Tags:<\/strong><br \/>\n\t\tAchilles Shield, air defense, Athens, Barak MX, David\u2019s Sling, defense deal, drones, Greece, Greece news, Israel, Israel Aerospace Industries, Missile Defense, Rafael, SPYDER, Tel Aviv\t<\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<div class=\"category_container author-information\">\n<div class=\"inner\">\n<section id=\"authorpage\" class=\"authorpage\">\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/99ca06517608e7af44e9761bf7c358974ffbc4a43859fd8e5be6fc2f50d341af?s=164&amp;r=g\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/99ca06517608e7af44e9761bf7c358974ffbc4a43859fd8e5be6fc2f50d341af?s=328&amp;r=g 2x\" class=\"avatar avatar-164 photo lazyload\" height=\"164\" width=\"164\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"author-content\">\n<h5>Bill Giannopoulos<\/h5>\n<h4>Junior Editor<\/h4>\n<p>Bill Giannopoulos is a Junior Editor at Greek City Times, covering Greek and international news, sport, and history.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/greekcitytimes.gr\" class=\"boxed-icon fill\" target=\"_blank\"><i class=\"fa-solid fa-link\"\/><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/greekcitytimes.com\/2026\/08\/31\/israel-greece-sign-achilles-shield-air-defense-deal\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEL AVIV \u2014 Israel and Greece signed a \u20ac3.1 billion air-defense agreement on Monday, the largest defense deal ever concluded between the two countries. The program, known as Achilles Shield, will combine Rafael\u2019s David\u2019s Sling and SPYDER systems with Israel Aerospace Industries\u2019 BARAK MX into an integrated, nationwide network against ballistic missiles, aircraft and drones. &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Israel, Greece sign \u20ac3.1bn \u2018Achilles Shield\u2019 air-defense deal in Tel Aviv \u2013 Greek City Times\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/31\/israel-greece-sign-e3-1bn-achilles-shield-air-defense-deal-in-tel-aviv-greek-city-times\/#more-20613\" aria-label=\"Read more about Israel, Greece sign \u20ac3.1bn \u2018Achilles Shield\u2019 air-defense deal in Tel Aviv \u2013 Greek City Times\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/greekcitytimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/HRCbcBWW8AAoRHA_upscale-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","no-featured-image-padding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}