Competence Center for Surface Based Air and Missile Defense

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Logo of the EADTF from 2009 to 2014
Logo of the EADTF from 1999 to 2008

The Competence Center for Surface Based Air and Missile Defense (CC SBAMD), from 1999 to 2014: Extended Air Defense Task Force (EADTF), is a competence center for improving air and missile defense and a binational cooperation between Germany and the Netherlands involved. It is based in Ramstein-Miesenbach .

history

The predecessor of Extended Air Defense Task Force (EADTF), originally called "US / NL / GE Extended Air Defense Task Force" was a command authority and tri-national military staff for tactical air defense , consisting of 34 soldiers from Germany, the Netherlands and the United States was . The staff was formed on August 2, 1999 in the German Siegerland barracks in Burbach , the official opening ceremony was on December 3, 1999. The legal basis is an agreement between the three states with the purpose of extended air defense within the framework of the Roland / Patriot - Follow-up agreement. Due to the increasing spread of missile systems, unmanned aerial vehicles ( UAVs ), but also ever faster and smaller manned aircraft with extensive armament and high accuracy, the defense ministers of the three participating states agreed with the EADTF to supplement traditional air defense. For this purpose, all three states have the MIM-104 Patriot missile defense system, a weapon system for air defense. The EADTF's task was to plan, prepare and carry out joint training and exercise activities. The aim is to support the compatibility and interoperability of the national air defense systems and to intensify cooperation.

In July 2004 the headquarters of the EADTF was relocated from Burbach to Heidelberg . In 2004 the EADTF had around 418,000 euros available as a budget, the German contribution to the staff amounted to 176,000 euros. In July 2008, the EADTF was relocated to Ramstein Air Base in the Allied Air Command Ramstein (AIRCOM).

From March 14 to 23, 2005, the EADTF also took part in the NATO- Russia air defense exercise "Collaborative Arrow 05" at the Dutch Air Force Base De Peel near Deurne on the basis of the TMD Systems Interoperability Project , a cooperation between NATO and Russia in the field of tactical air defense.

After the US withdrew in July 2008, the EADTF only consisted of 16 soldiers, 5 from the Netherlands and 11 from Germany. From the beginning of 2011, soldiers from France, Poland and the USA with "observer status" were also admitted to the EADTF.

Transformation to CC SBAMD

On 24 September 2014, was extended Air Defense Task Force (EADTF) at the 10th Air & Missile Defense Conference in naval command Rostock for Competence Center for Surface Based Air and Missile Defense converted (CC SBAMD). Like the EADTF before it, the CC SBAMD is not part of the NATO command structure or the NATO air defense system. A permanent subordination of associations is not provided. The CC SBAMD is also planning a cooperation with the American European Integrated Air and Missile Defense Center (EIAMDC), which was founded on September 26, 2012 in Einsiedlerhof near Kaiserslautern.

The commanding officer of the CC SBAMD has been the German Colonel Roman Krause since October 2016 and his deputy is the Dutch Lieutenant Colonel Eric Verweij.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from March 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive )