I found this article of the famous defense reporter Dimos Verikios.Its about the secret operation which was run by the Greeks and Russians in order to transport the S-300 missiles to Crete.Unfortunately,i don't have the time to translate it.I'll do it tonight.Of course if any other greek forumer wants to tdo the job,feel free to do so. ;)

Are you sure he was not talking about the SONY DAV-S300 Home Cinema???

That "famous" reporter my friend cameleon once stated that Turkey was afraid of the S300 because they are specially "designed" to shoot F16s!!! :damn:

Another time, few days after 9/11 he was presenting another "top secret" video from Hackers that attacked the pentagon and the video was from the movie Hackers with A. Jolie!!!!! :hammer:

Verikios is a joke.. there are no words to describe him.. i really wonder how he can still survive in this business.. he can't tell the difference of an M16 from an M1..

LOL.I only wrote that he is ''famous''.If he is relyable,that I don't know.Anyway,you could at least translate it,before discrediting him completely.I'm going to the gym now(have to workout on my damn abs :help: ).I'll translate it when i'm back....

''Operation Dias'' was the name of the secret tranfer of the S-300 from St.Peterburg to Crete the night of the 22 March 1999.

President Klerides visits Athens on Februar the 8th and in a meeting with the greek goverment it is decided that the S-300 will be delivered to Greece and will be integrated in th joint defense dogma.

At the same meeting it is decided that greek would tranfer TOR-M1 and Zuzana to the Cypriot forces.

The greek goverment asks from the secretary of defense procurments G.Sbokos to handle the transfer.

On the 17th of February,G.Sbokos travels with the Cypriot Minister of Defense to Moscow in order to change the signed contracts between Russia,Cypros and Greece.

The Russians asked to renegotiate the economic part,which was rejected by the Greek side.The Russians withdraw their economic requests and a date for the shipping was set.In order to minimize security date,even the Cypriots weren't informed.

A protocol of secrecy was signed which binded Russia to keep secret the whole operation,while Greece agreed not to reveal ioperational capabilities of the S-300 to a third side.

At this point G.Sbokos and his russian counterpart decided that the S-300 had to be transfered until the 20th of March.

The first days of March a list of ports was made where the missiles could be delivered to:

1.Keratsini
2.Salamina
3.Souda (military base)
4.Siteia
5.Souda (civil port)
6.Herakleion
7.Kalamata
8.Rodos
9.Thessaloniki
10.Volos

False preparations were made in the black sea in order to made the Turks belive that the plan was to smuggle the missiles through the Dardanelia pass.MIT movements were detected in the zone.

The systems were carried on civil transporters in St.Petersburg without the captains knowing their final destination.In order to catch the Turks on surprise,the Russians made an official anouncement that there would a 6 months delay of delivery in order to make a quality control if the systems which were in long storage.

The ships left St.Petersburg at the 10th of March with destination the Gibraltar straights and the Suez canal.At the same time,Rusian technicians arrived at Athens as tourists and were send with a military aircraft to Crete without informing them whre exactly they are.

Because of bad weather conditions there was a one day delay.The plan was that the Russians would contact Sbokos one they would arrive in the Greek Sea.Once they arrived they were ordered to sail to the Cretan Pelagos.It was decided that the missiles would be unloaded at the port of Herakleion.But when the first ship arrived at the Cretan Pelagos at the 22th,it was ordered to stop because a turkish ship was unloading potatoes at the Heraklion port.The Turkish captain was asked to unload his cargo as fast as possible and leave the port.

The first ship entered the port at 23:00 of the same day and started unloading the cargo.''Operation Dias'' terminated succesfully 2 days later when the last of the three ships was unloaded.

Does the word "Dias" have a meaning in Greek?

ΔΙΑΣ-------->DIAS-------->ZEUS

Thanks.. Now the name "Syfo Dias" makes some sense :)