https://www.saab.com/newsroom/press-rel ... rom-poland
25 JULY 2023
Saab receives order for airborne early warning aircraft from Poland
Saab has received an order from Poland’s Ministry of National Defence
for two Saab 340 Airborne Early Warning (AEW) aircraft.
The order value is approximately SEK 600 million and the contract period is 2023-2025.
These early warning systems comprise the Saab 340 aircraft equipped with Saab’s advanced Erieye radar.
The contract also includes ground equipment as well as in-country logistics and support services.
https://www.janes.com/defence-news/news ... c-aircraft
The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defence of Poland, Mariusz Błaszczak,
made the disclosure on 25 July 2023,
two months after announcing on 22 May
that his country's government was in the advanced stages of negotiations with Sweden to acquire such a capability.
While Błaszczak did not disclose aircraft numbers or a delivery timeline,
Saab is expected to provide
two recently retired airframes from the United Arab Emirates
that are now stored in Sweden
(Saab had not commented on the minister's announcement at the time of publication).
A Polish Air Force briefing slide shown at the IDET 2023 defence exhibition in Brno, Czech Republic, on 25 May 2023
showed a timeline to acquire two Saab 340 Erieye aircraft,
with deliveries to take place by early 2024.
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