{"id":1569,"date":"2026-04-14T10:58:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T10:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/1569\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T10:58:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T10:58:16","slug":"poland-holds-tight-to-its-patriot-batteries-amid-reported-us-call-for-middle-east-transfer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/1569\/","title":{"rendered":"Poland holds tight to its Patriot batteries amid reported US call for Middle East transfer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph-sc-1tqpf5s-0 bFwqVI body-paragraph body-paragraph\">WARSAW, Poland \u2014 Poland has denied plans to deploy its Patriot air-defense systems to the Middle East where Gulf countries could use them to shield themselves against Iranian attacks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-sc-1tqpf5s-0 bFwqVI body-paragraph body-paragraph\">As Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine continues, Poland\u2019s priority is to protect Polish skies, according to W\u0142adys\u0142aw Kosiniak-Kamysz, the country\u2019s deputy prime minister and national defense minister.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-sc-1tqpf5s-0 bFwqVI body-paragraph body-paragraph\">\u201cOur Patriot batteries and their armament serve to secure the Polish skies and NATO\u2019s eastern flank. Nothing is changing in this field, and we do not plan to move them anywhere,\u201d Kosiniak-Kamysz said in a social media post on March 31. \u201cOur allies know well and understand how important are our tasks here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-sc-1tqpf5s-0 bFwqVI body-paragraph body-paragraph\">In March 2018, Poland signed a deal to purchase two Configuration 3+ batteries for around $4.75 billion. The nation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/global\/europe\/2022\/05\/24\/poland-requests-six-additional-patriot-batteries-from-the-united-states\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">launched the second phase<\/a> of its mid-range air-defense program in May 2022 by requesting the United States to supply a further six Patriot batteries with related gear. In December 2025, Poland declared the first two batteries reached full operational readiness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-sc-1tqpf5s-0 bFwqVI body-paragraph body-paragraph\">Kosiniak-Kamysz\u2019s statement followed reports of informal requests originating from the U.S. government for the deployment of one of Poland\u2019s batteries to the Middle East. Washington has unofficially asked whether Warsaw could also supply some of the PAC-3 MSE interceptors from the Polish military\u2019s stock to Middle Eastern nations whose supply is being depleted by Iran\u2019s attacks, local daily Rzeczpospolita reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-sc-1tqpf5s-0 bFwqVI body-paragraph body-paragraph\">At a March 31 press conference, Adam Sz\u0142apka, a spokesperson for the Polish government, said the Patriot systems \u201care to serve Poland\u2019s security\u201d and did not answer a question whether the U.S. had in fact requested such a transfer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-sc-1tqpf5s-0 bFwqVI body-paragraph body-paragraph\">Some of the operators of Patriot systems in the Gulf region include Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__BioWrapper-sc-cy7r53-0 eATlTY a-body2\">Jaroslaw Adamowski is the Poland correspondent for Defense News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WARSAW, Poland \u2014 Poland has denied plans to deploy its Patriot air-defense systems to the Middle East where&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[436,437,430,452,453,323,1424,9,383,423,1425],"class_list":{"0":"post-1569","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-poland","8":"tag-circulated-defense-news","9":"tag-defense-news","10":"tag-dn-dnr","11":"tag-drones","12":"tag-iran","13":"tag-nato","14":"tag-patriot","15":"tag-poland","16":"tag-saudi-arabia","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-unmanned"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}