MILITARY INFRASTRUCTURE AND CAPABILITIES
NATO Ballistic Missile Defence Architecture as of 2017 Protecting NATO’s Populations, Territory, and Forces
Aegis Ashore “Sensor, Shooter” Deveselu, Romania 2016 Satellite provides early warning for NATO BMD
Aegis Ashore Redzikowo “Sensor, Shooter” Poland – 2018
NATO Command Center 4 US Aegis BMD-capable Ships “Sensor, Shooter”
BMD Tracking Radar “Sensor”
Ramstein, Germany
Rota, Spain
Kurecik, Turkey
Patriot / SAMP-T
Sea-based Radar
Land-based Radar
Ship Force Protection
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(THAAD) land-based interceptors, capable of hitting short-, medium- and intermediate-range ballistic missiles. Within the US Department of Defense’s European Phased Adaptive Approach (EPAA) programme, which is specific to Washington’s long-term BMD expansion and integration policy, American military resources in Europe presently include a radar installation at Kürecik, Turkey, as well as four Aegisequipped destroyers with SM-3 Block 1B interceptors operating out of the US Navy base at Rota, Spain. Moreover, since 2016, the Deveselu Air Base in Romania has hosted the Aegis Ashore SM-3 defensive missile battery system, which is nearly identical to current ship-based systems. In March, however, the US Department of Defense announced that the second Aegis Ashore site, being developed at the
joint forces base in Redzikowo, Poland (set to include a SPY-1 radar system and SM-3 Block IIA interceptor missiles), would be delayed until at least 2020, due to slow construction progress.
Rapid deployment The Deployable Air Command and Control Centre (DACCC) has been developed to answer the demand for NATO air assets to be quickly and fully deployable, wherever in the world they may be needed. Consisting of personnel from the Deployable Air Control Centre, RAP Production Centre/Sensor Fusion Post (DARS) and the Deployable Air Operations Centre (DAOC), the DACCC provides NATO with a unique force projection capability that is deployable, sustainable and configurable for air operations, anywhere.
The DACCC includes 10 shipping containers, 360 tonnes of support equipment, seven antenna systems and a multinational team of controllers responsible for air missions that may involve fighter aircraft or surface-to-air missiles. As part of exercise Ramstein Dust II-17 last September, elements of the DACCC deployed more than 2,000km from their headquarters at Poggio Renatico Air Force Base in Italy for deployment and readiness exercises in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland. These were held under the tactical command of Combined Air Operations Centre (CAOC) Uedem, Germany, which is responsible for NATO air policing across northern Europe. The successful trial deployment was yet another step closer to the end goal of assured NATO BMD.
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