Poland May Receive 1st US Patriot Missile Defense Battery in 2019

© AFP 2023 / JANEK SKARZYNSKIUS troops from the 5th Battalion of the 7th Air Defense Regiment emplace a launching station of the Patriot air and missile defence system at a test range in Sochaczew, Poland.file photo
US troops from the 5th Battalion of the 7th Air Defense Regiment emplace a launching station of the Patriot air and missile defence system at a test range in Sochaczew, Poland.file photo - Sputnik International
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The agreement on the air defense system's supplies to Poland was signed during US President Donald Trump's visit to Warsaw.

WARSAW (Sputnik) — Poland has received a proposal by Raython, the US manufacturer of Patriot missile defense systems, according to which the first Patriot battery might be delivered there as early as 2019, according to Antoni Macierewicz, the minister of national defense.

"Under this proposal, the first battery will be delivered soon, but for the same price, and then will be modernized for the same price," Macierewicz has said in an interview to Rzeczpospolita newspaper, adding that in this case the first shipment will be expected in 2019.

According to the Polish official, the decision on the proposal would be taken within one month.

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The Polish Ministry of National Defense and the US State Department of Defense signed an agreement on the deliveries of Patriot missile defense systems to Warsaw in July during US President Donald Trump's visit to the country. According to the initial deal, the systems should be handed over to Poland by 2022.

Patriot is a long-range, all-altitude, air defense system capable of countering tactical ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and advanced aircraft. The United States supplies Patriot systems to a number of its allies, including Germany, Israel, Japan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

The upcoming supplies come in the wake of NATO boosting its presence in Eastern Europe under the pretext of an alleged "Russian threat," a claim strongly denied by Moscow, amid the Ukrainian internal conflict that erupted in 2014 following violent clashes in Kiev that resulted in a coup.

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