Poland To Spend $40 Billion On Defence Modernization

Poland urges to modernize its armed forces and is all ready to spend about $40 billion on its military within the next decade, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said. 

The modernization program’s priorities include the purchase of guided missiles for F-16 fighters, the development of special purpose forces and the naval missile division on the Baltic Sea, and the provision of a sufficient number of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to the military. 

“In making the decision to sustain defense spending levels during the [economic] crisis, we will see to it that those funds are used even more effectively,” Tusk said further. 

He also emphasized on their commitment to develop defense collaboration within the framework of the Visegrad Group, which has Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland as members. 

“I have invited our neighbors from the Visegrad Group to work on our regional modifications of ‘smart’ defense,” he said.

Poland’s hope is that defense collaboration will help turn a regional air-defense and missile-defense system from a dream into reality, Tusk said.