The grand military parade held annually on March 25, to celebrate Greece’s Independence Day and 201st anniversary since the start of the 1821 revolution against the Ottoman occupation took place in Athens. Greece’s national holiday coincides with the religious feast of the Annunciation of the Virgin.
Parade short video:
Th parade passed before President of the Hellenic Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou and other officials on the stand in front of the Greek Parliament.
Crowds of people flocked to watch the show for the first time after two years of the coronavirus parade.
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The military parade of the armed and security forces began with the nurses of the Hellenic Red Cross and a mixed team of rescue workers, while the legendary WWII Supermarine Spitfire MJ755 escorted by an F-16 Hellenic Air Force fighter jet flew overhead.
French Rafale took off from aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, currently moored of the port of Piraeus, and joined the spectacle.
Parade video
For the first time, no Russian weaponry was reportedly showed in the military parade.
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Interesting that thousands of people were able to watch the parade presumably without a Covid pass, but couldn’t then go for a coffee afterwards in the sunshine. Either Covid is a thread or it isn’t.
Exactly.
Greek pilots do exceedingly well in NATO competitions. Some say they are the best pilots in the world and are quite often named as NATO’s best warrior pilots.