Inside a £2 billion plan for Europe’s largest CITY-sized NATO base with 10,000 troops and even schools and shops

CAREER, weapons, hangars, schools, shops, a hospital and £2 billion to spend – welcome to Europe’s largest NATO base.

Construction has already started on this super military base, which will be the size of a small city house 10,000 troops and strengthen regional security.

£2bn upgrade will make Mihail Kogălniceanu NATO base the largest of its kind in EuropeCredit: EPA

The new NATO base will house 10,000 troops and their familiesCredit: EPA

It will strengthen regional security in an area of almost three thousand hectaresCredit: AFP

The already existing Mihail Kogălniceanu base will double in size to strengthen regional security

The developers want to give a major facelift to the already existing Mihail Kogălniceanu base, near the Romanian city of Constanta.

The current air base is home to approximately 5,000 military personnel, most of whom American soldiers.

US Troops have been using the site since 1999, where parts of the 101st Airborne Division are now housed.

Once completed it will become the largest and most important base in the world Europeand overshoots into the Rammstein base Germany both in terms of size and operational capacity.

NEW JOBS

Strengthening regional security, the new NATO The base will span nearly 2,800 acres with a total perimeter of 11 miles.

The £2.5 billion project aims to improve air capabilities with new runways, a state-of-the-art control tower and beacons and radio navigation systems.

It also has an advanced flight simulator and state-of-the-art hangar facilities.

Work on the NATO facility has started on basic infrastructure, such as access roads and an electricity system.

Construction of a new runway parallel to the current one will soon begin.

The project aims to permanently house 10,000 soldiers and also provides adapted housing, schoolskindergartens, pharmacies, shops, a cinema and even a hospital.

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In the new geopolitical environment of a border conflict, base building strengthens NATO’s eastern flank.

Geopolitical analyst Dorin Popescu said Euronews Romania: “The Mihail Kogălniceanu base will become NATO’s main permanent military structure in the immediate vicinity of the conflict in the south of the country. Ukraine.

‘Let us not imagine that this conflict will end this year in 2025, in 2026 it will be a long-term conflict.”

The base should be fully operational by 2040.