Defense News traveled to Poland’s 31st Air Base near Krzesiny this July for an exclusive look at the first-ever trial of the U.S. Air Force’s new deployable air base system, or DABS — a series of humble-looking shipping containers filled with everything needed to stand up air operations, including temporary billeting and mess facilities, vehicles, airfield repair resources, and power and electrical equipment.
This is basically a land-based modularized auxiliary cruiser.
Although improving existing air bases in NATO allied countries is helpful, of course.
But it is nice to have the ability to operate from bases not already on the Russian target list.
