Army buys anti-aircraft missiles for PLN 1 bln

The Polish Army has signed a contract with PIT-Radwar for the delivery of POPRAD anti-aircraft mobile missile launchers worth PLN 1.08 billion. The deal stipulates that the company will supply the army with 77 POPRAD systems and will upgrade two others that had been delivered earlier. The weaponry will be equipped with short-range rockets, Grom and Piorun. Bartosz Kownacki, the deputy Minister of Defense, said that he is happy to sign such a big agreement with a Polish company. "The deal will increase Poland's defense potential, so that Poles will feel safer." POPRAD is a short-range anti-aircraft system capable of destroying air targets at low and mid altitudes, using homing guidance missiles.