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Poland changes its mind to buy American F-35 and Patriot systems for $ 12 billion

The Polish side is thinking about abandoning the American F-35 and Patriot systems.

Despite the fact that Washington agreed to sell the fifth generation F-35 fighter aircraft and the Patriot air defense / missile defense system to Poland, the Polish side seriously considered refusing such a deal, the amount of which amounts to 12 billion dollars.

The reason for concern was the incredibly high cost, while if Washington sells fighters for 85 million dollars to its allies, then Warsaw will have to fork out in the amount of 203 million dollars for one combat aircraft.

Poland has no less doubts about the purchase of the Patriot air defense system, which is due to the rather low efficiency of this system, which, in fact, has failed the tasks assigned to it in Saudi Arabia.

Specialists offer Poland to pay attention to European fighters, which in fact are not much inferior in combat potential to the American F-35. At the same time, as a replacement for the American Patriot, Warsaw may well conclude a profitable deal with Beijing, which has quite good air defense and missile defense systems in its arsenal.

“Under certain conditions, Poland could well have acquired the Russian C-300 and C-400, but rather complicated relations between the two countries, as well as pressure from the United States, are unlikely to provide Warsaw with such an opportunity”, - the expert marks.

Well, European fighters are also not much inferior to American ones in price)

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