Polish Patriot program will be in 3 phases

Officials from Poland and United States are working out the road map on how to prepare Poland’s future Patriot air defense batteries to have the latest technologies.

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By Ministerie van Defensie/Stephan de Bruijn [CC0 or CC0], via Wikimedia Commons

John Baird, vice-president of Poland programmes for Raytheon, told IHS Jane’s that the program will be carried out in three phases.

Phase 1 will see Poland taking delivery of the Patriot III Plus configuration. This is the current in production and this will allow Poland to deploy units in the fastest way.

Phase 2 is a development program and at Phase 3, the radar will be upgraded to a gallium nitride (GaN) AESA front end. The system will be fully 360° coverage with the addition of two smaller radar panels at the sides.

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