Poland plans to buy thousands of drones
PR dla Zagranicy
Paweł Kononczuk
08.11.2016 16:23
Defence Minister Antoni Macierewicz said on Tuesday that Poland plans to buy thousands of drones "so that we will able to defend ourselves against every threat."
Antoni Macierewicz (centre). Photo: PAP/Tomasz Gzell
Macierewicz said the drones would be used by Poland’s planned new territorial defence forces as well as other military units.
He was speaking in Zielonka, near Warsaw, where he attended a show with drones at the Military Institute of Armaments Technology.
Macierewicz did not specify how many of the machines the defence ministry would buy.
He said he hoped that thanks to the drones “our combat capabilities will be such that we will able to defend ourselves against every threat."
(pk)
Source: PAP