Poland budges on purchase of anti Russia missiles from US
27.11.2015 © AFP 2015/ BULENT KILIC

Poland’s new defense minister Antoni Macierewicz announced that the government is suspending its agreement with the US defense contractor Raytheon for Patriot missiles, complaining that the contract’s cost is too high while the term of delivery is too long.

Macierewicz claimed that the multi-billion-euro contract signed by the previous cabinet of ministers to buy American Patriot Missile Systems will be halted, Defense News reported.

At the same time Poland doesn’t aim to refuse the purchase, but wants to reconsider the conditions of the contracts, according to the US media.

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Poland’s New Government to accelerate $2.5B Air Defense System Tender

By Jaroslaw Adamowski November 27, 2015

WARSAW — Poland’s new government, formed by the Law and Justice (PiS) party earlier this month, plans to accelerate the tender to acquire nine batteries of missiles, which are to provide for Poland’s short-range air defense system, reports local daily Rzeczpospolita. The 10 billion zloty (US$2.5 billion) procurement, dubbed the Narew program, is to be accelerated, allowing the Polish Defence Ministry to launch the tender in 2016, according to sources from the ministry. In 2022, the short-range air defense system comprising missiles with a strike range of up to 25 kilometers is expected to become operational.

Speaking at the country’s parliament Nov. 25, Defence Minister Antoni Macierewicz said his ministry is re-evaluating the program to acquire a new middle-range air defense system under the Wisla program. Last April, the government of then-Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz announced that Warsaw decided to select the US Patriot system over the Aster 30, offered by a European consortium of MBDA and Thales.

However, speaking at the parliament’s Defense Committee hearing, Macierewicz said that the terms of the contract negotiated by the previous government “did not ensure defensive capacities before the years 2023 to 2030,” and, as such “it did not comply with the indispensable terms of our country’s defensive capacities.”

Last year, nine potential bidders were qualified by the ministry to participate in the Narew tender. These included MBDA, Israel Aerospace Industries, MEADS, Thales, Rafael, Aselsan, Kongsberg, Diehl BGT Defense and Poland’s PGZ.

http://www.defensenews.com/story/de...ender/76444004/

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