US expects construction of radar system to cost about 260 million USD

A spokesman for the US Missile Defense Agency has said the construction of a radar system that the US hopes to station in the Brdy military zone southwest of Prague would cost about 260 million US dollars. But the total costs of the radar system are estimated as higher at 550 million, including 118 million for communications equipment and 45 million for the guarding of the area. The agency confirmed the information that the US would transfer its radar system from the Marshall Islands if agreement is reached with the Czech Republic. Negotiations were officially launched only recently and are expected to last until the end of the year. If deployed the radar base is intended to complement a rocket installation in Poland, part of a broader US missile defence shield.