Urgency for attack & utility helicopters

Poland's plan to spend more than $33 billion over ten years on modernizing its military hardware includes 70 medium lift and 32 attack helicopters. With recent worries about Russian aggression the time-frame for bids just got a kick in the dupa. 

Medium-lift utility helicopter bid should have been in by the end of September 2014, according to the Ministry of Defense.

Analysts estimate the tender, which is now accelerated to August, might be worth nearly $1.4 billion and said Russia’s annexation of Crimea from Ukraine had helped to accelerate the purchase. The new equipment would replace some of the 250 Soviet-era helicopters owned by Poland.

Poland is scheduled to spend 1.95% of its GDP on military hardware including its own missile defense shield since Obama dismantled earlier plans and promises by the Bush administration to provide radar stations in the Czech Republic and launchers in Poland.

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