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Latvia Installs NATO Air Defense Radar System
A long-range has been installed in northwestern Latvia as part of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO) air defense system, local media reported Friday.
RIGA (Sputnik) – AN/TPS77, a mobile version of Lockheed Martin's AN/FPS-117 3D air search radar, has been installed some 115 miles west of Riga near the Baltic Sea port city of Ventspils. Its objective is to improve control over Latvian airspace, and that of other Baltic states, the Latvian newspaper Neatkariga Rita Avize reported.
According to the outlet, identical radar systems have been installed in the eastern Latvian cities of Rezekne and Lielvarde, 147 and 33 miles southeast of Riga respectively, thus allowing the national armed forces to fully monitor the entire Latvian border.
Latvian National Armed Forces Commander Raimonds Graube underscored the radars' importance, given the "growing military aircraft movement on the state border," as quoted by the newspaper.
Latvia has been a NATO member since 2004 and is on track to spend the military alliance's percent of GDP on military by 2020, the country's defense minister, Raimonds Vejonis, told Sputnik late last month.
A decision to establish NATO's rotational presence in Eastern Europe and the Baltics was reached following the bloc's 2014 Wales summit.
Vejonis also told Sputnik during a visit to Washington, DC that he plans to request a permanent NATO troop presence in the from US officials.
Russia views a permanent NATO troop deployment in these countries to be a violation of a 25-year agreement precluding the alliance's advancement toward Russia's .
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A long-range has been installed in northwestern Latvia as part of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO) air defense system, local media reported Friday.
RIGA (Sputnik) – AN/TPS77, a mobile version of Lockheed Martin's AN/FPS-117 3D air search radar, has been installed some 115 miles west of Riga near the Baltic Sea port city of Ventspils. Its objective is to improve control over Latvian airspace, and that of other Baltic states, the Latvian newspaper Neatkariga Rita Avize reported.
According to the outlet, identical radar systems have been installed in the eastern Latvian cities of Rezekne and Lielvarde, 147 and 33 miles southeast of Riga respectively, thus allowing the national armed forces to fully monitor the entire Latvian border.
Latvian National Armed Forces Commander Raimonds Graube underscored the radars' importance, given the "growing military aircraft movement on the state border," as quoted by the newspaper.
Latvia has been a NATO member since 2004 and is on track to spend the military alliance's percent of GDP on military by 2020, the country's defense minister, Raimonds Vejonis, told Sputnik late last month.
A decision to establish NATO's rotational presence in Eastern Europe and the Baltics was reached following the bloc's 2014 Wales summit.
Vejonis also told Sputnik during a visit to Washington, DC that he plans to request a permanent NATO troop presence in the from US officials.
Russia views a permanent NATO troop deployment in these countries to be a violation of a 25-year agreement precluding the alliance's advancement toward Russia's .
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Lithuania has received the first helicopter Dauphin II
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USN has begun testing of the first object of missile defense in Romania
The magazine "Jane's International Defence Review" article Geoff Fein "Land ahoy: USN to assume operation of Romanian Aegis Ashore" informs that in May 2015 the US Missile Defense Agency (US Missile Defence Agency - MDA) start a three-month series of commissioning tests of the first object missile Defense (NMD), built in Eastern Europe - the object Naval Support Facility (NSF) Aegis Ashore at the former Romanian air Force base Deveselu in southern Romania, which must be equipped with interceptor missiles family Standard SM-3.
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The magazine "Jane's International Defence Review" article Geoff Fein "Land ahoy: USN to assume operation of Romanian Aegis Ashore" informs that in May 2015 the US Missile Defense Agency (US Missile Defence Agency - MDA) start a three-month series of commissioning tests of the first object missile Defense (NMD), built in Eastern Europe - the object Naval Support Facility (NSF) Aegis Ashore at the former Romanian air Force base Deveselu in southern Romania, which must be equipped with interceptor missiles family Standard SM-3.
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NATO is expelling dozens of suspected Russian spies over fears the Kremlin has infiltrated the military organisation that is drawing up plans to protect Europe from Putin.
▬Nato is kicking out up to 45 suspected Russian spies from its headquarters
▬Follows decision to limit size of non-NATO member states' delegations to 30
▬Russia only country affected. Sources: Aim to curb intelligence-gathering
▬Comes after military chiefs warned UK & Russia had entered new Cold War
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▬Nato is kicking out up to 45 suspected Russian spies from its headquarters
▬Follows decision to limit size of non-NATO member states' delegations to 30
▬Russia only country affected. Sources: Aim to curb intelligence-gathering
▬Comes after military chiefs warned UK & Russia had entered new Cold War
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A major annual NATO exercise – is underway in the Baltic Sea with the exercise opening with potentially one of the trickiest manoeuvres of the series. With pinpoint precision the Royal Navy lined up the 49 warships from 17 nations – some less than 200 yards (182 metres) apart – and then moving them through a series of complex formations that tested their communications and navigational expertise.
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lol, the comment section should be renamed to 'live from Saint Petersburg'!
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A major annual NATO exercise – is underway in the Baltic Sea with the exercise opening with potentially one of the trickiest manoeuvres of the series. With pinpoint precision the Royal Navy lined up the 49 warships from 17 nations – some less than 200 yards (182 metres) apart – and then moving them through a series of complex formations that tested their communications and navigational expertise.
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That would be BALTOPS 2015. It actually includes a couple of non NATO countries as well.