Naval Air Station Sigonella

Italy Sigonella’s Air base is a military installation in Sicily, forms a part of the organization of the NATO that names like BORN Base Sigonella. This one composed by personnel and means assigned to Naval Air Station Sigonella known as NAS Sigonella or even the NASSIG that is of the Navy of the United States and an airport of the Air Italian Force.

Sigonella’s base, in Sicily, is one of the used ones habitually for the planes allied as base for his military actions on Lybia. Since it took charge of the control of the international operations, the NATO has carried out several thousands of flights on the African country and has finished – close to to the coalition that initiated the assaults – with more than one third of the military power of Muamar’s regime the Gadafi.

Thinking that the new political and military context of the Mediterranean region demands a new definition of the strategic paper of Sigonella’s air base, in Sicily; Considering that the presence of a base of the NATO in the island, that is to say, in the chunk of European land nearest to the territories of the Middle East and of Asia in conflict, exposes to the Sicilian population to possible risks and that, in compensation, this one does not receive any direct benefit not indirectly;

Naval Air Station Sigonella

Naval Air Station Sigonella planes

ospreys at Naval Air Station Sigonella

Military plane at Naval Air Station Sigonella

Innovations

Zaragoza will not be the headquarters of the new System of Terrestrial Vigilance (AGS) of the NATO. The Atlantic Alliance confirmed yesterday that has been praised by Sigonella’s military base (in the Italian island of Sicily) to implant the so called base it spies. In game there was an investment in technology and infrastructures of hundreds of million Euros, numerous direct employments of the highest level and his corresponding economic repercussions. If Zaragoza is not the chosen one it has been, between other motives, for the action of the central Government, which in the last phase of the choice it chose not to press before the Atlantic Alliance in order that he was betting for Saragossa.

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  1. Valerie Gersonde Avatar

    Is there lodging on this base? Can a dependent use this lodging without the sponsor? I am traveling to Italy in the fall. Thank you for your assistance with this matter.

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