Poland, France, Germany and Italy signed a letter of intent to jointly develop long-range cruise missiles on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Washington, D.C. “The aim is to establish cooperation in the development of our key deep strike capability,” said Poland’s Defence Ministry. This will lead to “joint projects regarding specific solutions that…
Hungary is blocking around EUR 2 billion (8.5 billion zloty) of EU funds earmarked for Poland to compensate for military aid Warsaw has provided to Ukraine. “The Polish government has been repeatedly communicating to Hungary at all possible levels that we are dissatisfied with the fact that Hungary has, for a year now, been blocking…
On July 9, the first foreign representative office of JSC Ukroboronprom was opened in Washington. Its main task is to strengthen cooperation between Ukraine and the United States in the defence industry. In particular, it is aimed at interaction with local businesses and expert organisations, cooperation with government agencies and defence organisations, and support of…
The Baltic States will present a capability development plan at this week’s NATO summit in Washington, D.C., the Lithuanian and Estonian presidents have said. They have also called for the necessary military capabilities to be assigned to the regional defence plans approved at the NATO summit in Vilnius last year. “Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia have…
On July 2, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine adopted amendments to the Resolution No. 256 dated March 24, 2023 providing for improvements to the procurement procedure for unmanned systems. The State Special Communications Service will be able to procure domestically produced UAVs through the Prozoro e-procurement system. Sensitive information about the contractors of state…
Poland has suggested to Lithuania to jointly acquire Polish Piorun air defence systems, according to a statement released by Lithuanian and Polish Defence Ministers Laurynas Kasciunas and Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz in Vilnius on July 3. “We are very pleased with Poland’s offer to join the purchase of the Piorun short-range mobile air defence systems. As you…
The US will lend Poland a further $2 billion (8.1 billion zloty) to fund the purchase of American air and missile defence systems, the Polish Defence Ministry has announced. The agreement, which marks the second such loan to Poland under the Foreign Military Financing (FMF) programme following one in September last year, is “an expression…