Babadag Training Area

Babadag Training Area
Centrul Secundar de Instruire pentru Luptă Babadag
Babadag, Tulcea County in Romania
Black Sea Rotational Force Marines and Romanian soldiers at the Babadag Training Area in 2016
Site information
Controlled by Romanian Land Forces
NATO
Location
Coordinates44°51′1.0″N 28°52′30.4″E / 44.850278°N 28.875111°E / 44.850278; 28.875111
Area2,700 ha (27 km2; 10 sq mi)

The Babadag Training Area, officially the Babadag Secondary Combat Training Center (Romanian: Centrul Secundar de Instruire pentru Luptă Babadag)[1] is a military training area north of Jurilovca, Tulcea County, Romania, southeast by east of Babadag, operated by the Romanian Land Forces. The area opens to the Lake Razelm lagoon of the Black Sea.

With a total surface area of 2,700 ha (27 km2; 10 sq mi), the area can accommodate live-fire exercises for infantry and tanks at company level as well as artillery subunits.[2] The facility is subordinated to the Cincu Training Center.[3]

Activities

In 2008, United States Army forces started to train at Babadag as part of Romania's integration into NATO.[4]

In 2022, units of the 101st Airborne Division (that had returned to Europe for the first time since the end World War II) deployed to the Mihail Kogălniceanu Air Base have been training at the Babadag base, near the border with Ukraine.[5]

In 2026, the ground exercises of the first part of the Exercise Sea Breeze were carried out in the area.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Activități de pregătire în Centrul Secundar de Instruire pentru Luptă Babadag". defense.ro (in Romanian). 2020-04-13.
  2. ↑ "Poligoane de mii de hectare pentru bazele SUA". România liberă (in Romanian). 12 August 2005.
  3. ↑ Bogdan Oproiu (2024-07-04). "Asalt în Cincu". presamil.ro (in Romanian).
  4. ↑ "Romania–US Army Training". Archived from the original on 2008-07-18. Retrieved 2008-07-16.
  5. ↑ Crăciunoiu, Adrian; Oanță, Ovidiu (October 24, 2022). "După 78 de ani, Divizia istorică 101 Aeropurtată a Armatei SUA a revenit în Europa. Cum se antrenează în România". Pro TV (in Romanian). Retrieved October 29, 2022.
  6. ↑ Exercise Sea Breeze 2026 Concludes in Portland, England, U.S. Naval Forces Europe and Africa / U.S. Sixth Fleet, 24 July, 2026
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