A NATO official has clarified that the UK has not been ruled out of the Air Command and Control System (ACCS) programme despite pulling out of the first phase three years ago.
Speaking at a media briefing at a NATO base in Glons, Belgium on 3 November, Enzo Montalti, Deputy GM for the NATO ACCS Management Agency (NACMA), said that the UK was part of the first replication until three years ago when it ‘chose to freeze its entities’ for political and economic reasons.
Described by Montalti as ‘a political step forward in the integration of the alliance’, the ACCS
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