MSPO 2022: Poland surprises with size of Apache request
AH-64E Apache Guardian was on display at MSPO 2022. (Photo: Grzegorz Sobczak)
Poland aims to order three times as many AH-64E attack helicopters as previously expected.
Polish defence minister Mariusz Błaszczak has revealed that a Letter of Request has been sent to the US government for 96 AH-64E Apache Guardian attack helicopters from Boeing, as a solution to requirements in the Kruk programme.
Błaszczak announced the news after a meeting with his US counterpart Lloyd Austin III during an 8 September visit to Ramstein AFB in Germany, where he attended a meeting of the Ukraine Defence Contact Group.
Shephard Defence Insight values the 96-helicopter procurement programme at $3.3 billion.
While the selection of Apache for Kruk is not surprising, as Boeing’s proposal has long been
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