WARSAW (Reuters) --- Poland hopes to buy the American Patriot
air and missile defense system, Defence Minister Antoni Macierewicz
said on Saturday, signaling a $5 billion deal may be struck despite
the new conservative government's initial doubts.
In April 2015, Poland's centrist government said it would buy
Raytheon's Patriot missiles, a deal which the then opposition
conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party said it would review should
it come to power.
Following PiS' election victory in October, the new government
questioned whether the "original cost and timeline assumptions,
as well as those regarding the scope of (U.S.) cooperation with
Polish industry," could be met, adding it might scrap the deal.
Raytheon was ready to build the system in 65 months, but the actual
delivery date would depend on inter-governmental negotiations, the
company said at the time.
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