Holzdorf military base was once the pride of Communist East Germany, a strategic linchpin for the Warsaw Pact countries who opposed Nato. Now it is being remade as one of the west’s biggest bulwarks against Russia.
The base’s runway is being expanded, so any plane in the Nato arsenal can land there. Soon it will take possession of 60 new Chinook heavy-lift helicopters and the Arrow air-defence system from Israel, capable of shooting down intercontinental ballistic missiles before they enter the Earth’s atmosphere.
“Over €500mn will be spent on new infrastructure here — hangars, maintenance bays and new flight operations areas,” says Colonel Christian Guntsch, the German military staff officer in charge of the expansion plan.
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