UK and Poland cooperating on development of future common missile
A rendering of a CAMM in flight. (Photo: MBDA)
The UK and Poland will work together to develop a future common missile based on MBDA’s Common Anti-Air Modular Missile (CAMM) as part of wider cooperation between London and Warsaw.
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On 5 July, the foreign and defence secretaries of the UK and Poland signed the 2030 Strategic Partnership following talks at Lancaster House.
The agreement sets out joint priorities on a swathe of diplomatic, defence and other issues and builds on a 2017 UK-Poland Treaty on Defence and Security Cooperation.
Key to the partnership is building next-generation capabilities for both countries’ armed forces.
UK and Polish defence cooperation has intensified recently with the successful export of the Type 31 frigate design for Poland’s Miecznik programme and collaboration on
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