Poland is sealing USD 3 billion deals with South Korea for the purchase of 48 Korean FA-50 fighter planes as the central European country takes urgent steps to increase its deterrence and defence capabilities amid Russia’s war on neighbouring Ukraine.
The two deals for the purchase of Fighting Falcon planes follow contracts signed last month for the acquisition by Poland of some USD 5.8 billion worth of South Korean tanks and howitzers.
Poland’s President Andrzej Duda, who is the armed forces’ supreme commander, and South Korea’s Minister of Defense Acquisition Program Administration, Eom Dong-hwan, are to attend the signing ceremony Friday at a military base and airport in Janow, in central Poland.
