Naval arms race in the Eastern Mediterranean

In recent years, a series of factors have come together that have ended up causing a new arms race between the countries that occupy the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea.

The Dolphin class submarines operated by Israel can operate with Popeye Turbo cruise missiles, capable of being armed with a nuclear warhead, if necessary.

In recent years, a series of factors have come together that have ended up causing an incipient arms race between the countries that occupy the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. This competition, which is in the naval field where it seems to reach its zenith, has led countries like Egypt to equip themselves with modern landing ships, Turkey to multiply its efforts in terms of submarines and build a twin of our BPE, Greece to be interested in the MQ-9 RPAS while acquiring German submarines and Israel to design new corvettes, among other things.

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