The US will present Poland with eight Apache helicopters till Warsaw receives its personal models, Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak confirmed Saturday.
“The US army will provide Poland with Apache helicopters from its own resources, even before signing the contract for the purchase of 96 helicopters,” Blaszczak mentioned in Washington after assembly US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on the Pentagon on Friday.
Last 12 months, Poland expressed its need to buy 96 AH-64 Apache helicopters, although it’s unclear when the deliveries may happen.
The US floor forces will present Poland with eight Apaches, and the coaching of Polish pilots is ready to start in a couple of weeks. The helicopters will go to jap Poland subsequent 12 months, Blaszczak mentioned.
Having Apaches is necessary as a result of they work properly will with Abrams tanks, which Warsaw additionally ordered from the US in recent times, he added.
Poland, a NATO member in Eastern Europe the place hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians fled after Russian forces final 12 months launched a conflict, plans to deploy the helicopters to its 18th Mechanized Division and 1st Air Force Brigade.
The buy should first be accredited by the US Congress and State Department.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
