Army buys antiaircraft missiles for PLN 1 bln

The Polish Army has singed a contract with PIT-Radwar for the delivery of anti-aircraft mobile missile launcher POPRAD 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 deliver 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 would feel safer." POPRAD is a short-range anti-aircraft system capable of destroying air targets at low and middle altitudes, using homing guidance missiles.