Air defence update

4th December 2010

Poland's Ministry of Defence must decide how to upgrade its air defence system

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With Poland’s out-of-date air defence system in desperate need of an update, the Ministry of Defence is currently weighing up its two options; whether to buy from abroad, or construct one using home produced means.

It would cost an estimated PLN 20 mln to build a new anti-missile system from scratch, but it is an option that defence expert from the Euro-Atlantic Association Tomasz Badowski says the country should certainly consider.

“We have a choice. We can either buy a new system from a country such as the US or Israel, or use what we have and construct it ourselves. Our equipment, which is used by countries such as Indonesia, is just as good as foreign installations, and around ...

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