Poland - US military relations:

Poland signed an agreement to acquire the first division of the American missile system HIMARS

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Poland sent a formal request for the purchase of 32 F-35A fighter jets

On May 28, 2019, the Polish Minister of National Defense, Mariusz Blašczak, in a speech at the opening of the Defense Conference Defense Warsaw in Warsaw, announced that the Polish government had sent a letter of request to the US government for the purchase of 32 fifth-generation Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II fighters for the Polish Air Force , including training and technical support packages.

Poland requested US acquisition of Javelin ATGMs and C-130H Hercules military transport aircraft

Polish Minister of National Defense Marish Blaszczak speaking on September 3, 2019 at the Polish defense industry exhibition MSPO-2019 in Kielce, said he had signed two official letters (Letters of request - LoR) to the US Department of Defense Agency for Defense Cooperation Agency - DSCA) with requests for the supply of Poland through the American program of intergovernmental foreign military sales Foreign Military Sales (FMS) of Javelin man-portable anti-tank missile systems and five Lockheed C-130H Hercules military transport aircraft.

It is reported that Poland is requesting 60 handheld launchers (CLUs) and 185 Javelin anti-tank missiles, which, according to Blaszczak, are planned to equip the deployed Polish territorial defense forces (Wojska Obrony Terytorialnej). It should be noted that so far the Polish Army since 2004 has acquired anti-tank systems of a similar class Spike-LR of Israeli design (including with partial assembly at the Polish company MESKO).

As for the five military transport aircraft S-130N, they must be obtained from the storage of the US Air Force. Currently, the Polish Air Force has four old S-130E Hercules aircraft built in the early 1970s, out of seven received from the U.S. Air Force storage in 2009-2011 (another received S-130E aircraft was decommissioned after an emergency landing in Afghanistan in 2010, one used as a non-flying teaching aid, and another was returned to the United States).

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The US government officially approved the supply of Poland fighter F-35A

On September 10, 2019, the U.S. Department of Defense Agency for Defense Cooperation (DSCA) sent a notification to the U.S. Congress of the planned upcoming sale of 32 fifth-generation fighter Lockhe Martin Martin F-fighters to Poland through the American program of intergovernmental foreign military sales (FMS) 35A Lightning II. This shipment is approved by the US Department of State. The total cost of the proposed supply will be $ 6.5 billion, including training and technical support packages. Armament is not included in the supply.

Recall that the Polish government made the purchase of 32 fifth-generation fighters (i.e. F-35) under the Harpia program in the new ten-year long-term plan for the technical modernization of the Polish armed forces (Planie Modernizacji Technicznej Sił Zbrojnych - RMT) for 2017-2026, approved in February 2019 . Polish observers estimated the cost of a possible program to purchase 32 F-35A aircraft at a minimum of PLN 20 billion ($ 5.27 billion).

In May 2019, the Polish government sent a letter of request to the U.S. government for the acquisition of 32 Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II fifth-generation fighter jets for the Polish Air Force through the American FMS program, including training and technical support packages.

Also in May, the Polish Ministry of National Defense expressed its intention to receive the first squadron of F-35A fighters (16 aircraft) by 2026, and the second squadron (the remaining 16 aircraft) shortly after 2026. At the MSPO-2019 defense exhibition held in early September in Kielce, Poland, Vice President of Lockheed Martin Corporation and F-35 Program Director Greg Ulmer said that Poland could receive the first four F-35A fighters of Block 4 version from the 16th production series (Lot 16) in 2024, and that these first four planes will be used to train Polish flight and technical personnel in the United States, probably at Luke Air Force Base in Arizona. The delivery of the entire full first F-35A squadron (16 aircraft) in this case will be completed in 2026. A second squadron of 16 aircraft will be delivered by 2030.

F-35A fighters should replace the Polish Air Force currently operating Soviet-made combat aircraft of the 1980s - MiG-29 fighters (now actually 21 aircraft are in operation) and Su-22M4 fighter-bombers (there are 26 aircraft now).

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New US military bases in Poland

On September 23, 2019, during a meeting in New York, the presidents of Poland, Andrzej Duda and the United States, Donald Trump, signed a Joint Declaration on deepening US-Polish defense cooperation. The document is based on the Joint Declaration on Cooperation in the Defense Field and the Presence of the United States Armed Forces in the Republic of Poland dated June 12, 2019, and, in particular, determines the agreed locations for additional US military installations in Poland with a view to the planned increase in the number of US forces in Poland from 4,500 to a minimum of 5,500 people.


According to the Joint Declaration signed on September 23, the following areas of deployment of additional US military contingents are defined in Poland:

Poznan - the advanced headquarters of the division (Division Headquarters (Forward)) with a support group

Dravsko-Pomorsk - is a Combat Training Center for joint use by the US and Poland.

Wroclaw-Strahovice - US Air Force Airdrome for the delivery of goods and troops

Lask - squadron of unmanned aerial vehicles General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper US Air Force.

Powids- is an army aviation brigade, support battalion, and special operations forces unit.

Lubliniec- is an object of special operations forces.

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