The construction of the Aegis missile defense system in Poland is nearing completion

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According to Vice Admiral John Hill, director of the US Missile Defense Agency (MDA), the construction of the Aegis missile defense system in Poland, which is being carried out in the village of Redzikowo, is nearing completion. Outwardly, it looks ready for operation, but internal work is still ongoing.

Delays in the construction of the Aegis Ashore ground-based missile defense system in Poland took about four years. Now the MDA and the US Army Corps of Engineers are trying to somehow make up for lost time.



At the moment, the US defense agency MDA has the only operating ground-based missile defense system Aegis Ashore in Europe, located in Deveselu (Romania) since 2016.


The second was going to be promptly erected in Poland by 2018. After reassessing the situation, MDA realized that the facility would not be put into operation until 2022 at the earliest.

When you go to a country like Poland and enter into contracts for military construction, you do not have full control over this.

- Hill vaguely explained the reason for such a significant delay from the schedule yesterday at the McAleese & Associates defense conference in Washington.

A Polish contractor was appointed as the culprit, who was entrusted with the construction work.

The new complex will be included in the European missile defense system. It includes the already mentioned facility in Romania, the AN / TPY-2 radar in Turkey and the Aegis radar ships based at the Rota naval base (Spain). Initially, it was stated that all this was intended to protect Europe from Iran.


But Russian defense experts are concerned about the proximity to our borders of the Polish and operating Romanian complexes under construction. And this concern has been expressed for years. The fact is that their MK41 launchers can be used not only to launch anti-missiles when intercepting and destroying air targets, but also to strike at the territory of the Russian Federation with Tomahawk cruise missiles. The United States has said that Russia's concerns are "groundless."
  • The US Department of Defense
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  1. +6
    10 March 2022 19: 12
    waiting for "Dagger" to visit
    1. +2
      10 March 2022 19: 17
      Israeli "experience" would be handy.
      Zhirinovsky promised them a year ago. bully
      1. +9
        10 March 2022 20: 56
        Zhirik prophesied this, the last: 22.02.22/8/XNUMX, which sometimes becomes scary. Maybe that's why I injected myself with XNUMX doses, so that I could lie in someone until everything rubs off.
        1. +3
          10 March 2022 22: 19
          Not at all. Zhirik was simply pathologically afraid of getting sick. And it's how it came out.
          Sorry old man. For all his stupidity, he often said the right things. At least live a little longer.
          1. 0
            10 March 2022 22: 37
            No.. A person predicting such things couldn't "just get sick"!
            "I do not believe!" © wink
            And although I have always treated him ... without respect, and I am not his supporter.
            But I definitely don't want him dead.
            But the "labeled creature" is the opposite.
            Volfych let him live, but let the humpback die.
            1. +1
              10 March 2022 23: 06
              Gluing flippers to the labeled is deliverance. Let him live for a long time and decompose alive, this duck is sorry for death. Sorry for my bloodlust.
              And I am not a fan of Zhirinovsky either. But without him, the 90s would have been completely gloomy)))
              And, we must pay tribute, since no one could organize the work of his cells in the field. Neither communists, nor EdRo ..
              The Liberal Democratic Party actually worked for some time for the people on the ground. They provided free legal services, punched through any rubble for roads .. I understand, a trifle. But no one else even moved.
    2. +2
      10 March 2022 19: 18
      Quote: Don Karleone
      waiting for "Dagger" to visit

      Let's wait until it works, then bang from the Urals. For discrimination. ))
    3. 0
      10 March 2022 19: 19
      Quote: Don Karleone
      waiting for "Dagger" to visit

      So I think that it is not enough for "interior decoration" of this missile defense complex good
    4. +2
      10 March 2022 19: 40
      Quote: Don Karleone
      waiting for "Dagger" to visit

      Such a thought also flashed, "under the guise and poke,"
      1. 0
        10 March 2022 21: 01
        Ouch! on tests... He took it and flew away... Himself... Well, the AI ​​was not finalized, we forbade it, we installed blocks from Kaspersky, but he bypassed them and chose the target himself. Now, if you didn’t squirm like that in Poland, then he ... He left for Romania feel
    5. 0
      10 March 2022 23: 38
      Better calibers, how gracefully they fly, migratory calibers are better hi
  2. +4
    10 March 2022 19: 15
    With any launch from these bases, immediate destruction and warning. Once we will determine whether Iran is there or Zimbabwe is threatened by the Americans. And most importantly, the Poles and Romanians convincingly warn
    1. 0
      10 March 2022 21: 53
      With any launch from these bases, immediate destruction and warning. Once we will determine whether Iran is there or Zimbabwe is threatened by the Americans.
      And the destruction of not only the object itself. But also overseas goals.
      1. 0
        11 March 2022 02: 22
        The article says that the Americans say that they are protecting Iran. Well then, Iraq, Iran, Palestine, Israel should be asked for help. It is necessary that a gift arrive from that area or from the Mediterranean
  3. +3
    10 March 2022 19: 23
    "Zircon" has already been put into production, but they are still testing it! Can test on psheks and Romanians? The rocket is not reflected on the radar. And they will howl - answer in the Ukrainian style - "... your air conditioner exploded there!"
    1. -4
      10 March 2022 19: 44
      Quote: Vicontas
      "... your air conditioner exploded there!"

      laughing good "Made in Donetsk"! Yes drinks
      1. 0
        10 March 2022 21: 05
        I'm not going to spank both of them, I understand the attempt to joke. But no more. Not that reason. Please.
        The phrase about the "Donetsk air conditioner" for me is a symbol of all the cynicism of the killers of the civilian population of Donbass.
        1. -2
          10 March 2022 23: 13
          Quote: volodimer
          I'm not going to spank both of them, I understand the attempt to joke. But no more. Not that reason. Please.
          The phrase about the "Donetsk air conditioner" for me is a symbol of all the cynicism of the killers of the civilian population of Donbass.

          Sleep to your heart's content! Because "Mariupol" for me is also the height of cynicism. But after 8 years I got used to it.
          1. +2
            10 March 2022 23: 38
            I don't see any pleasure in it. And they threw you without me. And you can't get used to it. You can't let your soul rot. Death should not become a statistic.
            The death of innocent people in the 14th and in the 22nd is the same. And he wants revenge.
    2. 0
      11 March 2022 11: 29
      And they will howl - answer in the Ukrainian style - "... your air conditioner exploded there!"
      And refer to the Ukrainians. They say that many years ago, back in the Donbass, they warned about the explosiveness of air conditioning systems.
  4. +5
    10 March 2022 19: 26
    In Mexico, our military base would be the best argument, and in Venezuela and Nicaragua, and even in Cuba ...
    1. 0
      10 March 2022 20: 06
      Corrupt politicians, marines and cartels are all in the pockets of the United States, and any Mexican president with divergent ideas will quickly find himself in a state of coup d'état.
  5. -1
    10 March 2022 19: 32
    But Russian defense experts are concerned about the proximity to our borders of the Polish and operating Romanian complexes under construction. And this concern has been expressed for years. The fact is that their MK41 launchers can be used not only to launch anti-missiles when intercepting and destroying air targets, but also to strike at the territory of the Russian Federation with Tomahawk cruise missiles.

    Stop fooling Russia with biolaboratories and dual-use complexes. If this is a missile defense system, you need to test it with Zircon or Dagger, and henceforth you don’t need to drag any crap to the borders of Russia ...
    1. +2
      10 March 2022 21: 17
      Poland is begging for another partition. But we don’t need this piece of Poland for nothing. But you can’t give it entirely to the Germans either. Some eternal hemorrhoid.
      1. 0
        10 March 2022 21: 54
        But we don’t need this piece of Poland for nothing. But you can’t give it entirely to the Germans either. Some eternal hemorrhoid.
        Therefore, it is worth making a control and trail strip from Poland between us and the Germans. Very wide band.
  6. +4
    10 March 2022 19: 53
    Only now Emmanuel Macron at the summit on Ukraine's accession to the European Union "France believes that the European Union cannot accept Ukraine in the current situation. The issue is closed." Neither NATO nor Europe is accepted.
    1. 0
      10 March 2022 21: 28
      I would not take it to the EAEU now. All countries, although not without problems and not in everything, love Russia, but at least strive for their own well-being. (in some places to the well-being of the elites, but still) And 404, for 30 years, she did not strive to create her own prosperous state, but only to harm her neighbor. Nasru in his hut, but in Russia it will stink. We got ours. Sanitary and epidemiological supervision from the department of Shoigu, came to clean your sewer.
  7. +4
    10 March 2022 19: 53
    nothing, they built the base in Ochakovo for a long time and finally built ... let them build the bases, and we will still make "calibers"
    1. -1
      10 March 2022 21: 34
      Judging by what they built there, they plundered more. A comment where the operator casually mentions 7 bodies, and sobs over yachts, cars, motorcycles, this is just something. This is where the "caliber" is not needed, there are no those who need to be pitied. These and "by area" could be.
  8. +4
    10 March 2022 20: 07
    Apparently there are not enough reconnaissance aircraft. Over Poland constantly a couple hangs:


    And tankers are constantly on duty over Romania:
    1. +4
      10 March 2022 20: 24
      That's who they run in Romania?
      1. 0
        10 March 2022 21: 37
        Apparently civilian aircraft, which now have to fly around the territory of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus wassat Shchyutka .. The French were going to increase their presence there.
  9. +3
    10 March 2022 20: 18
    Any attempt by the United States to place weapons near the Russian Federation now needs to be answered ... at least in the same way. And those who underlie the United States, use them as consumables without any pity.
    I really hope that the times are gone, when in Russia the main events of the week were ocean-scale oligarchic orgies and stinky boobs-pussies of all sorts of moral freaks in glossy magazines right on the front pages.
    Self-fucking songs are also remembered now ... in a different light. Most of all, in the end, it turned out to be a pity for the time spent on them.
    Young people today should take note of this note. Growing up as a degenerate at a young age is easy. But then life inevitably becomes unbearable and hopeless, like a public toilet pit.
    So less shitty songs, especially American ones, and more things that are useful for everyone else, and life will get better. It will be better than it was.
  10. +3
    10 March 2022 20: 36
    Quote: tralflot1832
    That's who they run in Romania?

    Unclear. But they hang all the time. One arrives and the other leaves. They fly from Spain, Germany, England. Over the World Cup Globalhawk hung out. Arrived from Sicily. In general, over Poland the mover is not sour. And Blackhawks and C-130s. England, Canada, states. Blackhawk flew over Romania at the World Cup today, spinning. Anti-submarine or what? It looks like the war will really be until the last Ukrainian.
  11. 0
    10 March 2022 21: 41
    Military value is relative, rather political and financial.
  12. 0
    10 March 2022 23: 46
    The destruction of this object is a task of great national importance.
  13. +1
    11 March 2022 00: 09
    After the end of the operation in ruins, with Putin's warning, the psheks with hoes themselves will destroy the Aegis ... if only not to get Caliber to the full head ... and this is without hatred! After the operation in ruins, the plant in Reutov will be overloaded with Caliber orders from both the RF Armed Forces and all our allies!
  14. 0
    11 March 2022 05: 40
    Psheks - you are fools.
  15. Two
    0
    11 March 2022 13: 51
    Just for a couple of Iskanders!

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