{"id":3539,"date":"2026-02-26T08:21:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T08:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/3539\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T08:21:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T08:21:04","slug":"belgium-to-install-air-defence-system-at-port-of-antwerp-in-2027-newspaper-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/3539\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgium to install air\u2011defence system at port of Antwerp in 2027, newspaper says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BRUSSELS, Feb 26 (Reuters) &#8211; Belgium will install an air\u2011defence system at the \u200cPort of Antwerp, Belgian newspaper Gazet \u200cvan Antwerpen reported on Thursday, citing Prime Minister Bart \u200bDe Wever.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Belgium last year faced multiple drone sightings that forced the temporary closure of airports and a military airbase. Drones \u200cwere also spotted \u2060over the port of Antwerp, including above the nuclear power plants, \u2060its BASF chemical site and the Europa terminal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;An air-defence system is coming to \u200bthe port \u200bof Antwerp. It&#8217;s \u200ba Nasams type \u200cand has already been ordered,&#8221; De Wever said at a yearly Community Meet\u2011Up of the port of Antwerp\u2011Bruges, according to the newspaper. It added that the defence \u200cministry specified that the \u200bfirst battery of the \u200bair\u2011defence system is \u200bexpected to arrive in 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The \u200csystem is designed to \u200bprotect against \u200bfighter jets, drones or other short-range threats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Port of Antwerp\u2011Bruges and the Belgian \u200bgovernment \u200cdid not immediately respond to requests for \u200bcomment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reporting by Charlotte Van Campenhout; \u200bediting by Barbara Lewis)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRUSSELS, Feb 26 (Reuters) &#8211; Belgium will install an air\u2011defence system at the \u200cPort of Antwerp, Belgian newspaper&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6],"tags":[2925,19,76,7,2924,2922,2923,2305],"class_list":["post-3539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-antwerp","tag-air","tag-antwerp","tag-bart-de-wever","tag-belgium","tag-defence-ministry","tag-defence-system","tag-gazet-van-antwerpen","tag-port-of-antwerp"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}