Poland signs $735M missile contract with US
PHOTO CAPTION: An F-16 releases the first Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile Extended Range, or JASSM-ER, over the Gulf of Mexico, Sept. 19, 2018. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Master Sgt. Michael Jackson via U.S. Defense Visual Information Distribution Service)
WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland has signed a $735 million contract with the U.S. for the supply of JASSM-ER missiles, Defence Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said on Tuesday, as the country spends heavily to bolster its armed forces since Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Warsaw is spending around 4% of its gross domestic product on defence this year and last week announced an agreement with the U.S. for the delivery of a $960 million airspace reconnaissance system to monitor the north-eastern borders.
"Today we have signed a contract worth $735 million, another multi-million dollar contract, for the purchase of air-to-surface missiles," Kosiniak-Kamysz told a news conference on Tuesday.
The missiles have a range of around 1,000 kilometres, according to the defence ministry.
(Reporting by Pawel Florkiewicz, Alan Charlish; Editing by Sriraj Kalluvila)
