RP: Poland will buy fewer French helicopters

Poland will only buy "a few" Caracal Eurocopters from France instead of 50, Rzeczpospolita reported. Minister of Defense Antoni Macierewicz informed his French counterpart of this decision in Paris yesterday. The Polish government aims to make up for this by buying the rest of the helicopters from domestic producers. This development means that the current Ministry of Defense has reneged on a deal signed in April 2015 by the previous Civic Platform-led government. That agreement called for 50 H225M Caracal Eurocopters produced by Airbus to be delivered to the Polish military. Neither side has officially confirmed the development. AFP reported, after the meeting of the two ministers yesterday, that France is against any sort of cancellation of the tender.