Investment in the new NATO military airport will start soon at the Kuçova Air Base.

On Thursday, Prime Minister Edi Rama published a video from the NATO exercise “Defender Europe 21” in Kuçova Air Base.

“Defender Europe 21″ from Kuçova Air Base, where one of the exercise’s 5 logistics centres has been set up and where the investment for the new NATO military airport will start, ” Prime Minister Rama says in the subtitles of the video.

“The logistics centre supports exercise with transport, fuel, tents, food and everything else. The American Patriot missile system was installed in Kuçova. Also in Kuçova, the Albanian and American military police are conducting joint exercises. The newly refurbished road enables easier access to the air base, ” it is said in the video.

“Defender Europe 21” is the largest military exercise that has taken place in the Western Balkans and Albania is the main location. About 28,000 troops from the United States, but also from other countries, NATO allies, are demonstrating increased military capabilities to cooperate as military allies.
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