U.S., Poland Work on SM-3 Interceptors Deployment - Pentagon

U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta escorts Polish Minister of National Defense Tomasz Siemoniak to the Pentagon as they walk past an Honor Cordon on their way to a private meeting on July 25, 2012


Washington and Warsaw keep closely discussing the deployment of a U.S. new-generation ballistic missile defense interceptor site in Poland by 2018, Pentagon spokesman George Little said.
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta met on Wednesday with his Polish counterpart Tomasz Siemoniak to discuss besides other issues the deployment of the U.S. missile shield elements in Europe.
“Panetta thanked Siemoniak for Poland’s leadership on NATO Ballistic Missile Defense [BMD]. Poland was the first nation to establish a BMD agreement with the United States… The two nations are working closely together to establish an SM-3 ballistic missile interceptor site in Poland by 2018,” Little said in a statement.


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