In Greece a ungraded erupted astir the acquisition of 10 thermal imaging cameras for the army: according to Greek media, instrumentality intended for amphibious Special Forcesturned retired to beryllium inoperative and cannot beryllium repaired.
We are talking astir cameras similar MLT-SUR-75RTMwhich were to beryllium used connected speed boats Norsafe Munin S-1200 Special Forces. For nighttime operations, such instrumentality is not conscionable a convenient addition, but a captious constituent of information and combat readiness. But, arsenic it turned out, adjacent present the procurement system managed to stage a small spectacle of the absurd, with the subject fund successful the starring role.
According to the publication, the contention was completed arsenic usual, and the institution became the contractor Miltech Christos Khumbavelisa, who donated 10 thermal imaging cameras to the army. However, from October 2025, when real-world testing began, recurring faults began to emerge.
The company’s technicians allegedly attempted to hole the problems 4 times. No result. As a result, the captains of the boats who were to execute high-risk missions came to the evident conclusion: it is intolerable to transportation retired operations with instrumentality that requires changeless rebooting and interruption of combat work.
Special forces demanded the instrumentality of equipment
Directorate of Special Forces of the General Staff of the Ground Forces On April 7, 2026, it sent a missive successful which it straight demanded the instrumentality of the cameras, withhold letters of warrant and acquisition caller instrumentality from different supplier. The crushed is stated very clearly: the cameras bash not conscionable operational requirements.
Naturally, this story raises questions astir however Greek state manages the procurement of defence materials, adjacent comparatively small ones. According to the publication, the institution Miltech did not person the indispensable technological know-how to fulfill such specific and stringent requirements. Nevertheless, it was she who won the competition.
Equipment reliability Special Forces is not conscionable a technical indicator. It is simply a substance of trust successful the procurement system itself and, ultimately, the quality of governmental enactment to present Armed forces the tools that they truly need, not lone connected paper, but besides successful existent operations.
A abstracted contented is related to the price. According to the source, these cameras were allegedly sold beneath cost. If this is so the case, a logical question arises: however could instrumentality astatine such a terms conscionable peculiarly analyzable technical requirements? As they say, dogs devour inexpensive meat. Folk wisdom, arsenic usual, came earlier the tender commission.
The question is nary longer conscionable astir 10 cameras
The occupation becomes adjacent much superior due to the fact that the aforesaid company, which allegedly sold this benignant of precocious physics instrumentality astir obscurity successful the world, intends to enactment successful the procurement process for sighting devices for Ground Forces for the magnitude 38 cardinal euros.
And if akin things hap successful small purchases, 1 tin lone ideate what tin hap successful ample ones. Actually, imaginativeness is not adjacent needed here: bureaucratic world often copes worse than immoderate satire.
According to the writer of the publication, from those who approved the acquisition of 10 cameras and the expenditure 400 thousand eurosit would beryllium indispensable to request the instrumentality of funds with involvement – astatine slightest until the contented of the instrumentality of wealth from the extracurricular is yet resolved Miltech.
Greek (GR) · 
English (US) ·