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Sunday, April 20, 2014
Navy's European missile sites move forward
Deveselu Air Base, Romania, home of the first of two European Aegis Ashore locations
The military could speed up deployment of a land-based missile defense shield in Europe to hem in a resurgent Russia, the Navy 3-star in charge of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency said in early April.
Vice Adm. James Syring said it was possible to speed up the deployment of the second Aegis Ashore installation, planned for Poland in 2018, but such a move would require some help from Congress.
“We’d need some additional funds in the [fiscal 2015] budget, and we’d need to move up the development of the [Standard Missile-3 Block ]IIA,” Syring said, referring to the faster, larger interceptor missile being developed for the Aegis Ashore system being built in Poland. The first site is being stood up in Romania and is slated to go live in 2015.
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The drone wasn't made by the Portuguese navy nor it's owned by said navy; it's a project from a company called Tekever which will develop one to the Portuguese Navy.
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