{"id":273231,"date":"2023-09-13T07:25:24","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T07:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=273231"},"modified":"2023-09-15T07:02:11","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T07:02:11","slug":"poland-approves-deal-with-the-us-to-buy-nearly-500-himars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=273231","title":{"rendered":"Poland approves deal with the US to buy nearly 500 HIMARS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Anastasiia Kondrat \u2013 Svidomi.com Sept 11, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Poland&#8217;s Defence Minister has approved an agreement with the United States to purchase 486 HIMARS launchers.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MON_GOV_PL\">announcement<\/a>\u00a0was made by Mariusz B\u0142aszczak on his Twitter page.<\/p>\n<p>The contract <a href=\"https:\/\/polskieradio24.pl\/5\/1222\/artykul\/3239664,setki-himarsow-dla-polskiej-armii-szef-mon-to-bedzie-jeden-z-najwazniejszych-komponentow-wojska-polskiego\">provides<\/a>\u00a0for the supply of long-range launchers, logistics and training facilities, as well as a package of missiles with a range of up to 70 kilometres and capable of hitting enemy targets at a distance of up to 300 kilometres. The agreement will also include technology transfer.<\/p>\n<p>Deliveries will begin in late 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the task of the Polish side is to adapt the systems and integrate the launchers with Polish systems. This will take two years.<\/p>\n<p>The Polish Ministry of Defence will purchase the systems under the Homar programme. This is a purchase of missile weapons that will allow for the future assembly of 27 missile squadrons.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The opposition says that [almost] 500 launchers are too many. No, this is not too much; it is exactly the number of HIMARS launchers that the Polish Army needs to really deter the aggressor,&#8221; B\u0142aszczak commented on the deal.<\/p>\n<p>Translated by Oleksandra Sobol<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/svidomi.in.ua\/en\/page\/poland-approves-deal-with-the-us-to-buy-nearly-500-himars\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We know Poland is committed to beef up its armed forces but to buy so many HIMARS rocker launchers suggests that they are preparing for outright war<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":256025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=273231"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273234,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273231\/revisions\/273234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/256025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=273231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=273231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=273231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}