First NATO missile defense system tested in Romania
In May, the US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) launched the three-month commissioning test of the first NATO missile defense system (PRO) built in Eastern Europe - Aegis Ashore’s Naval Support Facility (NSF), which is located on the former Romanian air force base Deveselu in the southern region of the country, reports blog Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies.
The American ship integrated system was used as the basis for the NSF Aegis Ashore object. weapons AEGIS: in fact, it is a land-based structural similarity to a Ticonderoga URO-class cruiser add-on, equipped with an AEGIS system capable of launching SM-3 antimissiles using universal vertical Launch Modular Enclosure launchers.
The construction of the facility in Deveselu was completed in early May of this year. It is planned that after the completion of commissioning tests - in August-September 2015 of the year - it will be handed over under the control of the US Navy, and by the end of the year the facility will begin combat duty with the SM-3 Block IB. Thus, NSF Aegis Ashore will be the first element of the NATO ground-based missile defense system in Eastern Europe.
As part of the calculation of this object - three shifts for 11 people, providing round-the-clock duty. At the moment, only one shift is working at the stage of commissioning tests.
In the future, a similar object will be built on the territory of Poland in Redzikovo (the Baltic coast of 5 km from Slupsk). He will take up combat duty in 2018 year.
The American ship integrated system was used as the basis for the NSF Aegis Ashore object. weapons AEGIS: in fact, it is a land-based structural similarity to a Ticonderoga URO-class cruiser add-on, equipped with an AEGIS system capable of launching SM-3 antimissiles using universal vertical Launch Modular Enclosure launchers.
The construction of the facility in Deveselu was completed in early May of this year. It is planned that after the completion of commissioning tests - in August-September 2015 of the year - it will be handed over under the control of the US Navy, and by the end of the year the facility will begin combat duty with the SM-3 Block IB. Thus, NSF Aegis Ashore will be the first element of the NATO ground-based missile defense system in Eastern Europe.
As part of the calculation of this object - three shifts for 11 people, providing round-the-clock duty. At the moment, only one shift is working at the stage of commissioning tests.
In the future, a similar object will be built on the territory of Poland in Redzikovo (the Baltic coast of 5 km from Slupsk). He will take up combat duty in 2018 year.
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