Category Archives: . Shared Base

Formally a national military base with strategic deployment of foreign military forces or telecommunications installation with permanent access.
British definition: Permanent Joint Operating Base

PAK | Shamsi Airfield, Washuk / Balochistan

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https://www.openstreetbrowser.org/#map=13/27.8457/65.1621&categories=military
27.8560421, 65.1675035

Wikipedia EN: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamsi_Airfield
DE: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luftwaffenst%C3%BCtzpunkt_Shamsi

Update: https://asiatimes.com/2021/09/us-troops-lingering-in-pakistan-ring-alarm-bells/
“Shamsi airbase was exclusively used to conduct drone operations in northwest Pakistan and housed several US military personnel. Blackwater employees were also involved in these operations. The CIA and US Air Force jointly developed the airfield, which the US was forced to leave in 2011.“

LTU | Rukla: Gaižiūnų poligonas

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https://www.openstreetbrowser.org/#map=11/55.0093/24.3927&categories=military
55.02306, 24.38451

Wikipedia LT: https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gai%C5%BEi%C5%ABn%C5%B3_poligonas
EN:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rukla  DE: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rukla

DE: https://www.bundeswehr.de/de/aktuelles/meldungen/bundeswehr-litauen-grosse-schritte-deutsche-kampfbrigade

ITA | Ghedi Air Base

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https://www.openstreetbrowser.org/#map=13/45.4310/10.2981&categories=military
45.43522, 10.27256

Wikipedia EN: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghedi_Air_Base
DE: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milit%C3%A4rflugplatz_Ghedi

Nuclear Sharing EN: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_sharing
DE: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nukleare_Teilhabe

NLD | Volkel Air Base

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https://www.openstreetbrowser.org/#map=14/51.6598/5.7041&categories=military
51.657222, 5.690833

Wikipedia EN: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkel_Air_Base
DE: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milit%C3%A4rflugplatz_Volkel

Nuclear Sharing EN: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_sharing
DE: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nukleare_Teilhabe

GBR | RAF Digby

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https://www.openstreetbrowser.org/#military/w173258341&map=15/53.0998/-0.4433&categories=military
53.090833, -0.434167

Wikipedia EN: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Digby

Other Source: NASA’s Quiet Presence at a Base in England’s Countryside Revealed in Snowden Documents, the Intercept, 13 Sept 2017 – https://theintercept.com/2017/09/13/digby-uk-nsa-gchq-surveillance/

GBR | GCHQ Bude

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https://www.openstreetbrowser.org/#map=16/50.8856/-4.5533&categories=military,communication
50.8862, -4.5537

Wikipedia EN: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GCHQ_Bude

Other Source: NSA pays £100m in secret funding for GCHQ, The Guardian, 1 Aug 2013-
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/aug/01/nsa-paid-gchq-spying-edward-snowden

 

ITA | Aviano Air Base

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https://www.openstreetbrowser.org/#map=13/46.0348/12.5963&categories=military
46.03327, 12.59639

Wikipedia EN: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviano_Air_Base
DE: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviano_Air_Base

Nuclear Sharing EN: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_sharing
DE: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nukleare_Teilhabe

BEL | Supreme HQ Allied Powers Europe, Mons

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https://www.openstreetbrowser.org/#map=14/50.4981/3.9734&categories=military
50.50361, 3.98257 (currently pixelated)

Google Earth 2015

Wikipedia EN: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Headquarters_Allied_Powers_Europe
DE: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Headquarters_Allied_Powers_Europe

BSR entries: Chateau Gendebien, Mons – Mons – Shape Headquarters – Sterrebeek Dependent School, Brussels – Brussels