Missiles installed by the US in Deveselu in Romania since Thursday is officially operational.
– US and Romania together to form a story, delivering NATO this system – said Admiral Mark Ferguson, commander of the naval forces of the United States in Europe and Africa.
Activate shield in Romania is the next stage initiated in 2009 a program of the European part of the anti-missile shield (Nato missile Defence System). In Romania installed a battery of missiles the SM-3 version of the land (Aegis Ashore). The system also includes a radar detection and tracking of ballistic missiles in Turkey. Items are included in the system of command and control at a US base in the German Rammstein; the system consists of the ships system Aegis based in Spain and armed with missiles the SM-3 version of the sea.
The missiles the SM-3 are used to fight ballistic missiles of short and medium-range in the middle phase of flight.
(Video: autumn tests were carried out rocket Standard Missile 3 (SM-3) off the coast of Scotland; Storyful / x / x-news)
The NATO
In a ceremony at the Deveselu attended by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. He stressed that this is a very important event for NATO and Euro-Atlantic security. Place in a state of operational readiness missile system Aegis Ashore cause for a significant increase in defense capabilities of European allies against ballistic missiles outside the Euro-Atlantic area. Jens Stoltenberg thanked the United States for their strong commitment to the security of NATO members. He reminded that tomorrow will begin construction of the base of SM-3 missiles in Redzikowo, Poland.
The NATO Secretary General stressed that the goal of the Alliance is to defend the people and territories of the Member States. He added that today he stands in the face of the greatest threats for decades. Jens Stoltenberg said that the missile shield is not anti-Russian. Interceptor missiles placed in Deveselu and in Redzikowo will be because not enough and will be placed too close to be able to destroy Russian intercontinental ballistic missiles.
Russia against the shield
The Russian authorities, however, strongly criticized on Thursday the launch of the American anti-missile shield in Romania, saying that it is a “direct threat” to Russian security. Moscow promises to strengthen its military capabilities.
– This is for us a direct threat (…) it is all one hundred, two hundred, three hundred, a thousand percent against us. This is not Iran, but Russia and its capacity nuclear deterrence “is the aim – said chairman of the defense committee of the State Duma Vladimir Komojedow, quoted by the Russian agency Interfax.
– We are able to overcome the anti-missile system. We will increase our defensive capabilities especially in the Arctic region by deploying there systems capture (rocket) – added Komojedow.
– This is another step towards military presence and political deterrence Russia – said the representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Andrei Kielin, adding that the deployment of the shield “can only aggravate the already and so complicated situation “between Russia and NATO.
Moscow estimates that the launchers in Romania and Poland is a violation of the INF (liquidation missiles medium-range), because they can also be used to fire missiles medium-range . work on the construction of a missile defense shield in Poland is expected to begin next friday; base in Redzikowo is to be ready for operation in 2018.
Threats Kremlin
Representatives of the US, NATO, Polish and Romanian repeatedly declared that the European part of the US anti-missile shield is not directed at Russia. Its purpose is to protect against the potential threat of long-range missiles from the Middle East, including Iran.
the construction of missile shield in Redzikowo
The threat from Iran said on Thursday database Deveselu representatives of the Pentagon and the US State Department, indicating inter alia that Iranian ballistic missiles can reach parts of Europe, including Romania.
Kremlin often threatened, however, that in the event of unfavorable for Russia’s development of the situation when it comes to building a missile defense shield in Europe, Moscow withdraws from further steps in the sphere of disarmament and arms control, as well as apply kontrposunięcia.
He referred to this in Thursday the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, recalling that “from the very beginning of the story we said that, according to our experts the construction of the missile defense system is a threat to the Russian Federation.” He pointed to “the cardinal change in the situation” when it comes to Iran and said that it does not lose its topicality question against whom the system is measured.
The United States and NATO show – notes the agency Associated Press – that the shield is a purely defensive and that, in any case, would be powerless in the face of the great Russian arsenal of intercontinental ballistic missiles.
Stoltenberg stressed in Deveselu that missile defense “does not undermine or weaken the Russian strategic potential of nuclear deterrence.”
But Moscow warned that Poland and Romania by placing in each other elements of the US missile shield “will automatically become targets” of Russia.
The system INF (Treaty on Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces) USA and then USSR concluded in 1987. The Treaty prohibits both sides possession, manufacture and testing of land-based ballistic missiles and maneuvering a range from 500 to 5 500 km.
PAP / agkm
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