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Camp Bastion by DonbassCZ Description: Camp Shorabak, formerly Camp Bastion is an Afghan Ministry of Defense airbase located northwest of the city of Lashkar Gah in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. The base has barracks for the Afghan National Army. Between 2005 and October 2014 it was the logistics hub for International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) operations in Helmand during the War in Afghanistan and Operation Herrick, it was capable of accommodating over 32,000 people. The camp was built by the British Army and was the largest British overseas military camp built since the Second World War. The base was also home to troops from a number of nations including the United States of Americaand Tonga. Shorabak contains the Afghan National Army (ANA) camp (also called Camp Shorabak), and held Camp Leatherneck until 2014. In November 2006, the then British Prime Minister Tony Blair visited Camp Bastion, and, while addressing a gathering of British troops, described it as an "extraordinary piece of desert ... where the fate of world security in the early 21st century is going to be decided". Features: Afghan, US and UK parts in base, Canteens, HQs, helicopter airfield and plane airfield with 2 runways and huge ramps, terminal, massive containers yard , warehouses, fuel depots... Known issues: Only manual landing and taking off! The biggest base in Arma 2! Requirements: - Softshelter - ASC EU Lights - MBG Buildings 3 - European Theatre - MBG Killhouses - MAP Editorupgrade (EU) - MBG Islandobjects - Avgani Iraq & Afghan Village (just opxbuilding.pbo, opxmisc.pbo) - MCAGCC 29 Palms (just wgl_commercial.pbo, wgl_objects) - Arma 2 Credits and Thanks: eddyD and Deanosbeano - Softshelter ASC Addon Team - ASC EU Lights Mondkalb - MBG Buildings 3 - European Theatre, MBG Killhouses, MBG Islandobjects Lester - MAP Editorupgrade (EU) Opteryx - opxbuilding, opxmisc Phaeden - wgl_commercial, wgl_objects BIS - Arma 2 Pictures: Entry to Camp Bastion: http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/607223562237594203/C742386227CE2CB34C877F3B6764FC32AD7B174C/ Barracks: http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/607223562237598457/129EAA96B49C7C2F507A4A0BBAA0E47BB2509574/ Warehouses: http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/607223562237599289/63287C838F4BF741F5EB0CEAA90FCC7316ABF6BA/ Fuel tanks: http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/607223562237597671/267BBDDBFB99C1377CD0995686C3F5539C71B03E/ Helicopter airfield: http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/607223562237595098/D5E0323F7DD5EEE8D1C0BDF69E4CEA4BC102FA3B/ http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/607223562237596095/29E1F50DF20983381D9D583B1D4C45863B16D024/ http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/607223562237602481/0C60C750735AA2D0B2C2CA81824D29FBAB033C34/ Plane airfield: http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/607223562237596812/1C8A0D36DCB65CD035485FE935D727F237AF8637/ http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/607223562237601086/235D6119879B1DC0D338ED31E685ED1011AF18E1/ http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/607223562237601847/B7AACE882091D98BEBD0720D09F250A8744AA89B/