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Friday, October 14, 2011

Spain’s Aegis Frigates Could Join Europe’s Missile Defense Shield

SPS Alvaro de Bazan (F-100 Class)A week ago, the Spanish government of Socialist Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero agreed to Spain’s participation in NATO’s European missile defense system by allowing four U.S. Navy Aegis guided-missile destroyers of the Arleigh Burke class to be stationed at the naval base of Rota, in southwestern Spain.

These destroyers are armed with the Standard SM-3 surface-to-air missile (SAM) designed to intercept short- and medium-range ballistic missiles. The U.S. Navy destroyers will be based in Rota beginning in 2013, along with 1,100 servicemen and 100 civilian employees. Together with their families, it is expected that 3,400 Americans will live in Rota.

The basing of the destroyers at Naval Station Rota will create job opportunities for the Spanish through new construction projects and new jobs expected to be created in the economically depressed Bay of Cadiz area.

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