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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.
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…
