Belgium’s Ministry of Defence plans to spend €550m on a brand new army district close to the Walloon metropolis of Charleroi, newspaper L’Echo reviews.
A 27ha web site might be developed within the metropolis for various departments of the Ministry of Defence.
The venture will contain constructing magazines for ammunition and hangers and workshops to retailer and keep Leopard 2 tanks and F-35 fighters.
Amenities will even embody outside and indoor coaching areas, a “simulation complicated”, and a capturing vary.
The federal government added that there could be a cyber warfare part, a main care centre and a nursery. Moreover, it should supply lodging, sports activities services and hospitality companies. Some 1,500 folks will work there.
The venture is a part of a programme set in movement by the earlier authorities, led by Prime Minister Alexander De Croo, to improve army services in Flanders and Charleroi.
In Charleroi, the federal government is about to start the tendering course of, with the purpose of signing contracts earlier than the tip of the yr and breaking floor in 2027.
These districts are supposed to increase the financial advantages of garrisons to areas which have excessive ranges of unemployment and no army presence.
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