Poland and the United States remain in tight contact on the planned fielding no later than 2018 of future-generation U.S. missile interceptors in the Eastern European country, the U.S. Defense Department said on Wednesday (see GSN, June 7).
Polish Defense Minister Tomasz Siemoniak and U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta held talks at the Pentagon that addressed the coming deployment of advanced ballistic missile interceptors, RIA Novosti reported. In accordance with NATO efforts to build a missile shield in Europe, Poland has agreed to host Standard Missile 3 Block 2A interceptors that are envisioned as having the capacity to defeat short-, medium- and intermediate-range ballistic missiles (see GSN, May 18).
Pentagon spokesman George Little in released comments said, "Panetta thanked Siemoniak for Poland's leadership on NATO ballistic missile defense," RIA Novosti reported.
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