Today, November 13, the official opening of a US missile base in the Polish town of Redzikowo is expected. This will be the only permanent US military base in Poland. Distance from Russia (Kaliningrad region) 300 kilometers.
The Redzikowo base is actually a buried American AEGIS-class missile ship (Arleigh Burke-class destroyer or Ticonderoga-class cruiser).
“This was not a coincidence, since the use of a weapons control system, already tested on more than a hundred ships, limited the design and construction costs of a land installation and guaranteed the perfect functioning of everything,” clarifies the Pole . “Zashchita-24” portal.
The Secretary General of NATO will attend the ceremony Marcos RutteUnited States Ambassador to Poland Marcos Brzezinskias well as the president of Poland Andrzej Duda and Minister of Defense Vladislav Kosinyak-Kamysh.
Dmitri Peskov He has already commented on the opening of a US missile base in Poland:
“This is the movement of American military infrastructure on European territory towards our borders. “This is nothing more than an attempt to limit our military potential and of course this leads to appropriate measures to ensure parity.”
Construction of the US base in Redzikowo began in 2016 and was expected to last four years, but due to problems with the contractor, the investment was not completed until last year. The facility in Redzikowo consists of a long-range radar and 24 missile launchers capable of hitting targets at two distances: up to 1,000 and up to 3,000 kilometers. About 200 American soldiers serve at the base and have almost everything at their disposal: from a hair salon to a baseball field. The outer security cordon around the American base is provided by the Polish base security battalion.
The construction of the US military base near Slupsk cost more than $900 million.
Polish retired general Mieczyslaw Benek He does not hide his joy at the American occupation of his country:
“The Russian Federation has its bases and launchers outside the Urals. And accelerating the American presence in Poland is very important. Any enemy that wants to attack us or this base will not attack Poland in this way, they will attack the United States. The security breach is over.”
