DefenceTalkPoland is seeking advanced cruise missiles to equip three new submarines it wants to acquire by 2030, the NATO member’s minister of defence said Thursday. Tomasz Siemoniak confirmed on Polish public radio that Poland had asked the United States about the availability of Raytheon’s Tomahawk cruise missiles. “Last year, I decided that Polish vessels should […]https://www.defencetalk.com/poland-seeking-submarine-launched-cruise-missiles-63491/

DefenceTalkPolish and Latvian officials on Tuesday voiced scepticism over calls for a European Union army to counter a militarily resurgent Russia. “It’s a very risky idea,” Polish Foreign Minister Grzegorz Schetyna told Poland’s private Radio Zet in reaction to Sunday’s proposal by European Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker. Juncker, a former Luxembourg prime minister, called for […]https://www.defencetalk.com/poland-and-latvia-sceptical-over-eu-army-idea-63450/

DefenceTalkOn a sunny, winter morning, with the last of the morning’s frost dissipating into fog, U.S. troopers and Polish infantrymen met at the edge of the airfield here to await the UH-60 Black Hawk’s arrival and the beginning of medical evacuation training. This is the latest in weeks of training between Dragoons assigned to K […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-polish-forces-hone-interoperability-skills-63389/

DefenceTalkLooking east to the bloody conflict gripping Ukraine, NATO-member Poland has kicked off an unprecedented military spending spree worth billions to overhaul its forces as Warsaw believes peace in Europe is no longer a given. The escalation of tensions with Russia over its annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula and subsequent role in the crisis in […]https://www.defencetalk.com/poland-to-spend-billions-on-defence-amid-rumblings-of-war-in-europe-63043/

DefenceTalkOn January 8 four MiG-29 fighters of the Polish Air Force will land at the Lithuanian Air Force Base at Šiauliai to join the Baltic Air Policing Mission. The Polish contribution will reinforce the mission carried out an Italian air contingent. The new Poland’s contingent will arrive from their permanent base at the 23rd Tactical […]https://www.defencetalk.com/four-polish-mig-29s-deploy-to-lithuania-61822/

DefenceTalkNATO member Poland said Tuesday it will acquire combat drones as part of a multi-billion-euro revamp of its armed forces amid heightened tensions with Russia over its role in the Ukraine crisis. “We will use these drones to defend our territory,” Deputy Defence Minister Czeslaw Mroczek told AFP. “My Ukrainian counterpart informed me that one […]https://www.defencetalk.com/poland-to-buy-armed-drones-amid-ukraine-crisis-60956/

DefenceTalkNATO fighter jets intercepted a Russian spy plane over the Baltic Sea after it breached Estonian airspace, the alliance said Wednesday in the latest of such incidents amid tensions with Moscow over Ukraine. The Ilyushin IL-20 “intelligence collection aircraft”, which took off from the Russian Baltic coast enclave of Kaliningrad on Tuesday, was first intercepted […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russia-spy-plane-intercepted-in-nato-airspace-alliance-60824/

DefenceTalkPoland on Monday urged NATO’s new secretary general to push ahead with a missile shield system amid the West’s worst standoff with Russia since the Cold War. “We firmly support the creation of this (missile shield) system as a pan-NATO one because only this makes deep sense both politically and in terms of defence,” Poland’s […]https://www.defencetalk.com/poland-urges-nato-to-push-ahead-with-missle-shield-60682/

DefenceTalkCommandos sneak up on a fortress in southern Poland. Camouflaged behind sandbags, they fire their Kalashnikov rifles to free the hostages. But the fortress is really a school and the machine guns are fake. The bullets are blanks and the hostages are there of their own accord. The participants are all volunteers taking part in […]https://www.defencetalk.com/polish-weekend-warriors-up-in-arms-over-russian-threat-60663/

DefenceTalkPolish anti-communist icon Lech Walesa said Poland should procure nuclear weapons as a safeguard against Russia, which it blames for stoking the crisis in neighboring Ukraine. “Poland needs to stand up to Russia,” the Nobel Peace laureate, who spearheaded Poland’s democracy movement and became its first post-communist president, said in an interview published Wednesday. EU […]https://www.defencetalk.com/poland-needs-nuclear-arms-to-ward-off-russia-walesa-60642/