Aegis Ashore Adapts Sea-Based Missile Defense System to Protect Europe

摘要

The U.S. Navy is building on the success of the Aegis Combat System's ballistic missile defense capability - literally - to protect Europe. Four guided-missile destroyers (DDGs) with the proven Aegis BMD system are now forward deployed to the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations, as part of the European phased adaptive approach (EPAA). Joining those ships is Aegis Ashore, a land-based version of the same Aegis BMD capability located at Deveselu, Romania. The Deveselu site sits on a former Warsaw Pact airbase.