Poland renews talks with Lockhead Martin

Poland has relaunched talks with Lockheed Martin's MEADS on a missile-defence system,  deputy defense minister Bartosz Kownacki told daily Dziennik Gazeta Prawna. "We're relaunching talks with MEADS,"  Kownacki said. "We're still discussing who the supplier of the missile defense will be.... Various options and various suppliers are possible. It all depends on the conditions which are offered to us." In April 2015, Poland decided to buy surface-to-air Patriot missile systems produced by American weapons producer Raytheon. However, after the October election, the new government said it would scrap the deal. In November, Defense Minister Antoni Macierewicz said that the contract with Raytheon for the delivery of  surface-to-air Patriot missile systems hasn't yet been signed and is practically invalid. Under the initial agreement, Raytheon was responsible for the delivery of six Patriot missile systems equipped with GEM-T missiles in the next three years, and then, with newer PAC-MSE missiles. The total value of the contract stood at PLN 26 billion.