İncirlik Air Base
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| Huge U.S. air base in Turkey. |
Incirlik Air Base is a huge U.S. air base [1] located in the city of Adana, Turkey.
Incirlik Air Base has a U.S. Air Force complement of about five thousand airmen, with several hundred airmen from the Royal Air Force and Turkish Air Force also present, as of late 2002. The primary unit stationed at Incirlik Air Base is the 39th Air Base Wing (39 ABW) of the U.S. Air Force.
Tactical nuclear weapons are stored at the base.[2][3] Among them are "up to" 50 B61 nuclear bombs.[4]
References
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20150927090358/http://www.incirlik.af.mil/library/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=6538
- ↑ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16877666
- ↑ https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-h-bombs-in-turkey |magazine=The New Yorker
- ↑ https://www.apnews.com/182a2170a1d24ac6b4f0c7242d8ff514
