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Bucharest (AFP) May 3, 2011 Romania and the United States have agreed to deploy elements of a future missile defense shield at Deveselu airbase, in southern Romania, president Traian Basescu said Tuesday. "We have decided that the anti-missile shield will be deployed at the former airbase at Deveselu, in Olt county," Basescu said in televised address. The airbase, which will remain under Romanian command, will host an average of 200 US troops and up to a maximum of 500. Romania and the United States have been negotiating for more than a year on the deployment of ballistic missile interceptors, which should be operational by 2015. "This is the highest level of security Romania can attain," Basescu said, stressing that the shield was not directed against Russia.
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Russia to build aerospace defence shieldMoscow, Russia (VOR) Apr 28, 2011 Russia will build a national aerospace defense shield by the end of 2011, Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Defense and Security Viktor Ozerov told reporters on Tuesday in the cosmonauts' training center near Moscow. He believes that a combined aerospace defense force will cooperate more effectively with NATO's European anti-missile defense system. Last year, President Medved ... read more |
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