Greece Navy ex-HS Bouboulina Sunk

The decommissioned frigate Bouboulina (F463) was sunk as a target on 21 October 2026 in the northern Cretan Sea, during acceptance firings of the Hellenic Navy's new Spike NLOS and Spike ER missiles held jointly with the Israeli Navy, Naval News reported. According to Naval News and To Vima, Spike NLOS missiles were fired from a Machitis-class patrol vessel and Spike ER2 missiles from a Mark V special operations craft, two Israeli missile boats also fired, and a Papanikolis-class submarine finished the hulk with an SUT torpedo. Built in the Netherlands as the Kortenaer-class Pieter Florisz and commissioned in 1983, she served the Hellenic Navy from 2001 to 2013; her sinking removed no hull from the active fleet.