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Poland Aegis Ashore Site To Turn Over To Navy This Year, Operational In 2024

Wednesday, August 23rd, 2023

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Poland Aegis Ashore Site To Turn Over To Navy This Year, Operational In 2024

The Aegis Ashore Poland site at the Naval Support Facility Redzikowo after four SPY–1D(V) radar arrays and the fire control illuminator were installed onto the site deckhouse in early May 2021. (Photo: MDA)

A Missile Defense Agency (MDA) official recently said, after several years of setbacks, it aims to turn over the Poland Aegis Ashore missile defense site to the Navy before the end of the year, and the system should be fully operational by next spring. “We had some setbacks in the construction, we had some setbacks from COVID. But we've made great progress this year, we’ve come through a couple of key milestones, one of those being full installation of the…

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