Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Map of NATO Headquarters Cannerberg. NATO Headquarters Cannerberg / Joint Operations Centre (JOC), located behind the Château Neercanne south of Maastricht, on the border with Belgium, was, during the Cold War, a communications center and headquarters of NATO. It housed the war headquarters of Northern Army Group and Second Allied Tactical Air ...
Chièvres Air Base (ICAO: EBCV), also referred to as SHAPE Airfield at Chievres Air Base, [2] is a NATO airfield operated by the United States Air Force.It is located 1 nautical mile (1.9 km; 1.2 mi) east southeast [1] of the Walloon town of Chièvres in the province of Hainaut, Belgium and about 12 mi (19 km) from Headquarters, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE), in Casteau.
General Lyman Lemnitzer, SACEUR at the time, had hoped that SHAPE could be located near to NATO Headquarters, as had been the case in Paris, but the Belgian authorities decided that SHAPE should be located at least 50 kilometres from Brussels, NATO's new location, because SHAPE was a major wartime military target. [5]
On 28 June 1974 Headquarters Allied Air Forces Central Europe (AAFCE) was re-established as an independent headquarters at Ramstein Air Base, Germany as one of three principal subordinate command under Allied Forces Central Europe (AFCENT). [5] Its task was to provide central direction and control for NATO air forces in the European Central Region.
In 2002, the Belgian Government offered much of King Albert Barracks to NATO, for relocation and building of a new headquarters complex at Haren (Brussels). The new headquarters of NATO was dedicated on the site in 2017. The airfield was the first location of SABCA, and hosted its headquarters ever since, its last link to aviation.
Under the NATO nuclear sharing arrangement, these nuclear bombs would require an actual dual key system, which would imply the simultaneous authorizations of Belgium and the United States, before any action is taken. Should that be the case, Kleine Brogel Air Base would be the only location in Belgium with nuclear weapons.
The NATO headquarters is the political and administrative center of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). After previous locations in London and Paris, it has been headquartered in Brussels since 1967, in a complex in Haren , part of the City of Brussels , along the Boulevard Léopold III / Leopold III-laan .
Florennes Air Base (French: Base aérienne de Florennes), [2] also known as Base Jean Offenberg, (ICAO: EBFS) is a Belgian Air Component (formerly the Belgian Air Force) military airbase, compliant to STANAG 3712 category 8 (and category 5 during quick reaction alert operations), located 2 nautical miles (3.7 kilometres; 2.3 miles) east-south-east of Florennes, [1] in the Walloon municipality ...