AWACS plane to fly over the country to assess Poland's reconnaissance needs

A team of NATO officers has arrived in Poland aboard a military plane equipped with an Airborne Warning And Control System (AWACS). The team will fly over Polish airspace with the Polish Airforce to jointly assess how AWACS' reconnaissance and air-traffic-control data could be of use to the Polish military. Planes equipped with AWAC have been on Poland's shopping list for some time, though procuring them is for now still a remote possibility because of their high price. (Rzeczpospolita, page A3). S.M.