The United States is using a former Nazi base in northern Poland to construct a missile station as part of the US ballistic missile force in Eastern Europe.
Last week, American and polish officials broke ground for the US missile station in the Redzikowo military base near Poland’s Baltic coast. The site once belonged to the Nazis and later the Soviets.
The base will become operational by 2018 and complete the $800 million missile program for NATO members in Europe.
The Aegis Ashore-type missile facility in Redzikowo will be just 250km from Russia’s Kaliningrad enclave. The facility will include 24 land-based SM-3 missiles and anti-aircraft systems.
US Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work said last week that the Redzikowo facility “is a US contribution to NATO missile defense” and it will be “capable of defending the central and northern arc of NATO.”
The ground breaking came only a day after US and NATO officials declared that a…