The same fate has befallen the billion-euro contract with Airbus for helicopters.
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.
Last April, Warsaw announced a plan to acquire missiles at an estimated €5 billion ($5.3 million). The news outlet stressed that the negotiations were held with the background of the deterioration of relations between Russia and the West in the wake of the Ukraine crisis.
The Polish defense minister has now put into question the very existence of the deal. On Wednesday, during a parliamentary defense commission meeting, he noted that the conditions of “the potential contracts have changed a lot since the public announcement."
"The price is much higher, the delivery time much longer… in short, this contract is practically non-existent," Macierewicz said, explaining the decision made by authorities.
"The defense ministry will move towards repeating the tender if the results of the offset talks make it impossible to ink the deal."
Macierewicz named the US manufacturer Sikorsky and British-Italian group AgustaWestland as potential competitors.
