US Navy scheduled to accept Aegis Ashore Poland by mid-December

Aegis Ashore is a four-storey deckhouse and launch tower, which will provide a static home in Romania and Poland for the SPY-1D(V) radar, SM-3 missiles, and other systems taken from the US Navy’s BMD ships. (Missile Defense Agency)

The US Navy (USN) is scheduled to officially accept the Aegis Ashore site in Poland by mid-December, according to Rear Admiral Douglas Williams, the acting director of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA).

“The navy will formally accept Aegis Ashore Poland into their inventory on December 15,” Rear Adm Williams told the House Armed Services Committee Strategic Forces Subcommittee in a written testimony on 7 December.

Located in Redzikowo, the Aegis Ashore site “was added to the Operational Capability Baseline in September 2023 with upgrades over the original design and state-of-the-art integrated electronic security system,” Rear Adm Williams noted.

The Aegis Ashore site in Poland was delivered to the USN on 1 October for operational use and maintenance, the MDA acting director said.