ISRAEL - Dec. 29 - Poland To Get Missiles.Poland Poland, Pol. Polska, officially Republic of Poland, republic (2005 est. pop. 38,635,000), 120,725 sq mi (312,677 sq km), central Europe. It borders on Germany in the west, on the Baltic Sea and the Kaliningrad region of Russia in the north, on Lithuania, and Israel sign $350m deal to buy 2,700 state-of-the-art Israeli anti-tank Spike missiles. To be delivered between 2004 and 2013, they will be produced under licence from the state-owned Israeli Rafael arms corporation by Mesko, a Polish company. Mesko will use components from Rafael, which will supply an initial batch of Israeli-made missiles in 2004. (The Spike is optically guided, can be shoulder-fired or mounted on vehicles or helicopters and has a range of 4,000 metres. It will replace the Soviet-era missiles still in use by the Polish military - part of a wider effort to bring the country's armed forces up to the standards of NATO NATO: see North Atlantic Treaty Organization. NATO in full North Atlantic Treaty Organization International military alliance created to defend western Europe against a possible Soviet invasion. , which Poland joined in 1999. The contract will give Mesko financial breathing room after a decade of losses. Its value for the first two years of the contract is estimated at $35m. Poland's Defence Ministry says the deal is the third largest involving modernisation of the country's armed forces since the end of Communism communism, fundamentally, a system of social organization in which property (especially real property and the means of production) is held in common. Thus, the ejido system of the indigenous people of Mexico and the property-and-work system of the Inca were both in 1989. Last April, Poland signed a $3.5 bn deal to buy 48 US-made F-16 jet fighters Jet fighter may refer to:
AMV Avian Myeloblastosis Virus AMV Alfalfa Mosaic Virus AMV Army Motor Vehicle AMV Assisted Mechanical Ventilation AMV Armored Maintenance Vehicle AMV Accredited Meter Verifier AMV Annulus Master Valve Patria PATRIA. The country; the men of the neighborhood competent to serve on a jury; a jury. This word is nearly synonymous with pais. (.q.v.) armoured personnel carriers from Finland. Rafael has sold various models of the Spike to Finland and the Netherlands. Rafael is expected to log record sales of $900m for 2003. Defence Ministry figures show Israeli weapons export contracts in 2002 were worth $4.1 bn - up from $2.6 bn the previous year. Israel's overall exports are about $30 bn. In June, Defense News, a US weekly specialising in military issues, ranked Israel third in defence exports, behind the US and Russia. |
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