Deadline today for submitting bids to supply air force with new planes

The deadline for the submission of bids to supply the Polish air force with multi-purpose planes passes today at 3 pm. The Defense Ministry estimates that it will have to spend $2.5 billion to $3.5 billion on the lease of 16 planes and the purchase of 44 new ones. Swedish-British consortium Gripen, Lockheed Martin of the US, and Dassault of France have already submitted the necessary documentation to take part in the tender. Minister of defense Bronislaw Komorowski has announced that the final contract will be signed in September. (Gazeta Wyborcza p. 8, Rzeczpospolita p. A4) M.T.K.