 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| . |  |
. |
US to deploy Patriot missiles in Poland in 2010: US official
Warsaw (AFP) Oct 16, 2009 The United States will deploy ground-to-air Patriot missiles in Poland in 2010 and is discussing its plans for a new anti-missile system with Warsaw, a US defence official said Friday. "We presented some detailed information on how the rotations of our Patriot batteries would be conducted over the next few years under the August 2008 agreement" with Poland, US Assistant Secretary of Defence for International Security Alexander Vershbow said in Warsaw. "We look forward to the commencement of those rotations next year," Vershbow said following talks with Poland's Deputy Defence Minister Stanislaw Komorowski Friday ahead of next week's visit by Vice President Joe Biden. The Patriot missile battery "will be armed and possess elements permitting it to be integrated with the Polish defence system," Komorowski added. Friday's high-level talks also focused on US proposals for Poland's role in the architecture of the European part of President Barack Obama's proposed new anti-missile system. "We are very interested in the possibility that Poland would be the host country for one of the two land-based SM-3 missile sites that are envisaged under the four-staged plan that President Obama has laid out," Vershbow said. "This system is specifically designed to protect all of NATO as well as US forces and US civilians based in Europe," he added. In September Poland's Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said Washington would deploy Patriot-type anti-missile missiles in Poland despite dropping plans for a stationary anti-missile system based in eastern Europe to counter Iranian rockets. At the same time US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said that aside from the Patriots Washington aims to deploy new SM-3 missiles in Poland and the Czech Republic in 2015. Last month Obama scrapped a plan agreed by his Republican predecessor George W. Bush to install a controversial anti-missile system in the two neighbours. The Bush administration said the shield was designed to deal with attacks by so-called "rogue" states, namely Iran, but Russia slammed it as a threat to its national security. Obama said that after a rethink, and the realisation that Iran was developing its own missiles more slowly than anticipated, his administration was opting for a more flexible system. Share This Article With Planet Earth
Related Links Learn about missile defense at SpaceWar.com Learn about nuclear weapons doctrine and defense at SpaceWar.com All about missiles at SpaceWar.com Learn about the Superpowers of the 21st Century at SpaceWar.com
Obama's new missile defense planWarsaw, Poland (UPI) Oct 15, 2009 Experts are optimistic that U.S. President Barack Obama's new missile defense plan for Eastern Europe is better than the old one. Obama's new plan, the so-called "phased, adaptive approach" for a European missile defense system features a combination of fixed (ground-based) and relocatable (on U.S. warships) Standard Missile 3 interceptors and radars that focuses mainly on the threat fr ... read more |
|
|
| The content herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, are Copyright 1995-2009 - SpaceDaily. AFP and UPI Wire Stories are copyright Agence France-Presse and United Press International. ESA Portal Reports are copyright European Space Agency. All NASA sourced material is public domain. Additional copyrights may apply in whole or part to other bona fide parties. Advertising does not imply endorsement,agreement or approval of any opinions, statements or information provided by SpaceDaily on any Web page published or hosted by SpaceDaily. Privacy Statement |
del.icio.us
Digg
Reddit
YahooMyWeb
Google
Facebook