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…
In a letter to the European Union (EU) president, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia called on the EU to build a defence line along the border with Russia and Belarus to protect the EU from military threats and other harmful actions, stressing that the project, which would protect the 27 countries’ 450 million citizens, would…
The Ukrainian company A3Tech-Ukraine, which carries out large-scale assembly and partial production of Croatian DOK-ING vehicles, has received a certificate of conformity for the MV-10 heavy demining vehicle. The company has an order for the production of eight such vehicles. The first one, manufactured with funds raised under the UNITED24 initiative, has already been delivered…
Poland is close to concluding a contract with South Korea to purchase a further 180 K2 Black Panther tanks, some of which will be manufactured in Poland itself for the first time, the defence minister has announced. Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz was speaking after meeting in Warsaw with his South Korean counterpart Shin Won-sik on June 20.…
Poland will spend the equivalent of 4.12% of its GDP on defence this year, which is the highest level among NATO members and more than double the alliance’s guideline of 2%. The figure – part of estimates published by NATO this week for all its members – marks a rise from the 3.92% of GDP…
With a shortage of mortar shells in reserves across Europe, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia are setting up their own ammunition factories to be ready in case of a potential attack from Russia. In Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia – three Baltic States on the edge of the European Union that all share a border with Russia…