Sea missiles being placed across Europe

System adapted and to be deployed as defense against Iran

As Russia continues to voice vehement opposition to a European anti-ballistic missile defense system, the United States has continued with work on the defensive shield by installing an Aegis Ashore system which normally goes onto ships, according to a report in Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.

The shield has been adapted for land-based use and will be deployed in Romania and Poland. It is looked upon as providing yet another level in a multi-layer defense system that protects against an attack from Iran. It also includes the Theater High-Altitude Area Defense system, or THAAD, and Patriot missile batteries.

With the Aegis system, Gen. Patrick O’Reilly, director of the Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency, said that a multi-layered effect can be achieved.

Russia, however, isn’t standing still and intends to deploy its latest mobile S-400 missile defense system in the Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad. Russia may upgrade its own ballistic missiles with more advanced warheads.

The Russians also have issued a stark warning of a pre-emptive strike on the European facilities, even though analysts don’t believe the Russians would carry out such a threat.

Such a warning, however, recently was made by Russian Chief of Defense Staff Gen. Nikolai Markarov, and many are taking it seriously.