https://www.wsj.com/articles/nato-plans ... ge=1&pos=3NATO will plow funds into stationing U.S. military equipment in Poland, lending allied heft to Washington’s strategy for quickly reinforcing Europe with troops in case of a Russian incursion.
The $260 million storage facility will help turn an air base near Powidz, in central Poland, into a hub for U.S. forces in a former Soviet Bloc country that has a land border with Russia. Construction will start this summer and take two years, said Jens Stoltenberg, secretary-general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization,...
- LTESM-C Site Preparation at Powidz Air Base, Poland
https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity ... e&_cview=1
- Long Term Equipment Storage and Maintenance Complex (LTESM-C) at Powidz Air Base, Poland
https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity ... e&_cview=1
Das ist alles andere als neu:
- Inspector General
Management of Army and Marine Corps Prepositioned Stocks in U.S. European Command
September 17, 2018
https://media.defense.gov/2018/Sep/19/2 ... 18-152.PDFWe nonstatistically selected five locations.
For APS‑2, we selected Zutendaal, Belgium, and Leghorn Army Depot, Livorno, Italy. For MCPP-N, we selected the Bjugn, Frigaard, and Tromsdal caves in Norway. We selected these locations because they contained a majority of the prepositioned vehicles and weapons. For APS-2, we excluded three sites—Coleman Worksite, Germany; Dulmen, Germany; and Eygelshoven, Netherlands—because they were inspected by the AMC Inspector General in June 2017.
- US to store heavy weapons in Poland under Nato plan (15. Juni 2015)
The US will take a decision soon to store heavy weapons including tanks and infantry fighting vehicles in Poland, the Polish defence minister says.
Tomasz Siemoniak said he had discussed such US military deployments last month with US Defence Secretary Ash Carter.The three Baltic states also plan to store US heavy weapons, officials say.
The US has confirmed only that it is to send an armoured brigade of up to 250 vehicles, including tanks, to Germany to support its Nato allies.
US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter will decide in due course whether any of those vehicles will be deployed to other European countries.
"Decisions are near," Mr Siemoniak tweeted (in Polish), confirming a New York Times report at the weekend that storage of US heavy weapons in Poland was being discussed.It would not be an ad hoc measure, the minister said, but "for years and decades".
Reports say up to 5,000 Nato troops could be equipped with the weapons set to be stored in eastern Europe. It would be in position for a Nato rapid reaction brigade, agreed at a Nato summit last year, which could deploy at short notice.
The White House and Mr Carter still have to approve the heavy weapons storage, and no precise locations have been named yet.
"This is another step towards building a greater US presence in Poland and the region," Mr Siemoniak told the Polish news agency PAP.
"If heavy US military equipment, including tanks, artillery batteries and other equipment really does turn up in countries in eastern Europe and the Baltics, that will be the most aggressive step by the Pentagon and Nato since the Cold War," said Gen Yuri Yakubov, a Russian defence ministry official.
Gen Yabukov said that, under such circumstances, Russia would "organise retaliatory steps to strengthen our Western frontiers".
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-33131886Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary have also been named as possible storage locations for US military hardware.
EUROPEAN DETERRENCE INITIATIVE
Department of Defense Budget
Fiscal Year (FY) 2020
Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)
March 2019
https://comptroller.defense.gov/Budget- ... udget2020/ARMY
- Army Prepositioned Stock (APS) Unit Set Requirements ($1,860.6 million)
Description: Provides for the continued build of a division sized prepositioned set of equipment in Europe. In the event of conflict, prepositioned sets reduce the demands on strategic transportation assets and also reduce the risk of enemy interdiction.
Funding Details: Funds the build of a division-sized set of prepositioned equipment that is planned to contain two ABCTs (one of which is modernized), two Fires Brigades, air defense, engineer, movement control, sustainment and medical units. This includes funds to modernize and, where necessary, acquire vehicles for the European threat, to transport equipment from CONUS to storage facilities, and to restore and update facilities to receive the equipment. Funding will accelerate the build of sustainment and medical assets that are critical to theater setting and port opening. Funding will increase survivability by fielding vehicle protection systems to one brigade of tanks within the set. Funding
also supports additional war stock ammunition for the unit sets.MARINE CORPS
- Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) Enhancements ($2.4 million)
Description: Supports IAMD enhancements through integrating proximity fuzes on existing Stinger missiles thereby making them more effective against emerging air and missile threats in theater.
Funding Details: Funds final development and fielding of proximity fuzes on Army Stinger missiles.
- Enhanced U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) Prepositioning ($7.3 million)
Description: Enhances USMC prepositioning in Europe to quickly deploy a sizeable force to respond to threats made by aggressive actors in the region, allowing for an increase in the amount of combat arms equipment available in the Marine Corps Prepositioned Program – Norway (MCPP-N), adding new combat arms equipment to the MCPPN-N, improving the cold weather equipment in the MCPP-N, and reconstituting the Maritime Prepositioning Force capability in Europe.
Funding Details: Funds supports purchase and transportation of equipment, supplies, and material.
Army Adds Medical Materiel to European Prepositioned Stocks (29. November 2018)
https://www.army.mil/article/214437/arm ... ned_stocksArmy prepositioned stocks (APS) 2 in Europe -- the Army's newest APS site -- is now equipped with life-saving medical equipment and supplies in support of theater readiness.
APS-2 Zutendaal talks support equipment with Belgium Land System Section (11. Juli 2018)
The APS-2 site shares the base with the Belgian army and is part of the Army's Prepositioned Stocks Program which strategically prepositions critical war stocks afloat and ashore worldwide to reduce deployment response times for a quick and agile expeditionary Army.
https://www.army.mil/article/208378/aps ... em_sectionZutendaal was opened on Nov. 21, 2017 and is one of the two APS operations under the mission command of Army Field Support Battalion - Benelux. The AFSBn is one of four battalions of the 405th Army Field Support Brigade, headquartered in Kaiserslautern, Germany.
2011-0191
MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING
(MOU)
GOVERNING
PRESTOCKAGE AND REINFORCEMENT OF NORWAY
https://2009-2017.state.gov/documents/o ... 180656.pdf
Hier ein älterer Überblick von 2005 ...
https://ndiastorage.blob.core.usgovclou ... newman.pdf
... und 2008 über die Army Prepositioned Stocks:
- APS-1 CONUS
- APS-2 Europe
- Eygelshoven
- Camp Darby, Italy
- Leghorn Army Depot, Livorno, Italy
- APS-3 Afloat
- Charleston, SC
- Diego Garcia
- APS-4 NE Asia
- Camp Carroll, Korea
- Yokohama & Camp Sagami, Japan
- APS-5 SW Asia
- Camp Arifjan & Kuwait Naval Base
- Camp As Saliyah, Qatar
Sowie 2015:
http://www.ndia-ia-il.org/docs/briefing ... WRIGHT.pdf
Army Prepositioned Stocks
https://www.army.mil/standto/2006-08-18What is it? The Army Prepositioned Stocks (APS) are combat-ready assets amassed in peacetime to meet the increase in military requirements at the outbreak of war. Strategically located on land and aboard ships around the world, these critical war fighting stocks aid rapid employment. APS remains set at the minimum level of stocks to sustain and equip the approved forces as outlined in the Defense Planning Guidance.
APS is operated and maintained by the Army Field Support Command, a Major Subordinate Command of the Army Materiel Command.
What has the Army done? APS consists of prepositioned unit sets of equipment, operational projects, and sustainment stocks. It also includes War Reserve Stocks for Allies in Korea, Thailand, and Israel. APS equipment is currently located in 12 countries in Southwest Asia, Far East, Europe and Afloat. There are four categories of APS equipment:
- Heavy Brigade Combat Team and Combat Support unit configured sets
- Operational Projects
- Sustainment
A majority of Army equipment used in Operation Iraqi Freedom today was provided from APS stocks.
- War Reserve Stocks for Allies
What efforts does the Army plan to continue in the future?
- APS-2 (Europe) - APS-2 will maintain a company-size team Immediate Ready Force (IRF), selected operational projects and some war reserve stocks for allies.
- APS-3 (Afloat) - will consist of three Army Strategic Flotilla (ASF) Heavy Brigade Combat Teams (HBCT) and two ASF - Support packages. They will provide a capability to support and sustain the full range of military operations for early arriving forces comprised of ASF combat and support units and selected fly-in units.
- APS-4 (Northeast Asia (NEA)) - will consist of a Heavy Brigade Combat Team supported by a specifically tailored Sustainment Brigade, Army watercraft units and medical support units.
- Marine Corps Prepositioning Program-Norway (MCPP-N) (Region Trondheim)
- Anlegeplatz Hammarnesodden
- 2 Lager/Luftwaffenstützpunkte
- Vaernes Garnison (R/W reception site)
- Oerland Main Air Station (F/W reception site)
- Munitionslager
- Hammernesodden (Munition für Kampffahrzeuge)
- Hammerkammen (Munition für Kampffahrzeuge)
- Kalvaa (Munition für Luftfahrzeuge)
US-Militärfahrzeuge werden in Norwegen eingelagert
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