Two Polish helicopter instructors will be permanently stationed at RAF Shawbury in the West Midlands for a full rotational tour.<\/p>\n
The announcement came during a visit by Polish President Karol Nawrocki to Downing Street on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
U.K. Defense Secretary, John Healey, hailed Poland as \u201ca crucial ally for the U.K. in this era of rising threats\u201d and said together they were \u201cstepping up to defend Europe and face down the threat from (Vladimir) Putin.\u201d<\/p>\n
British fighter jets conducted an air defense mission over Poland as part of an allied response to Russian drone incursions into Polish airspace, with pilots from the two countries flying together as part of NATO\u2019s Eastern Sentry mission.<\/p>\n
Healey announced last year that British armed forces would get fresh powers to bring down suspicious drones<\/a> over military sites as part of the Armed Forces Bill, amid a spate of aerial incursions across Europe.<\/p>\n Ministers have committed to improving the U.K.\u2019s aerial defenses, following concerns that it is increasingly vulnerable<\/a> given the changing nature of threats from the air.<\/p>\n The U.K. and Poland have cooperated extensively on air defense in the past, including a \u00a31.9 billion export agreement announced in April 2023<\/a> to equip 22 Polish air defense batteries, and a separate deal worth over \u00a34 billion to continue the next phase of Poland\u2019s future air defense programme, Narew<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two Polish helicopter instructors will be permanently stationed at RAF Shawbury in the West Midlands for a full…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[2594,18992,1306,11078,748,473,2595,393,1214,4884,2819,51030,2597,98281,2598,12337,1144,770,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-693285","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-air-defense","10":"tag-airspace","11":"tag-aviation","12":"tag-batteries","13":"tag-britain","14":"tag-defense","15":"tag-drones","16":"tag-england","17":"tag-exports","18":"tag-great-britain","19":"tag-john-healey","20":"tag-karol-nawrocki","21":"tag-military","22":"tag-military-aviation","23":"tag-missiles","24":"tag-missions","25":"tag-northern-ireland","26":"tag-poland","27":"tag-scotland","28":"tag-uk","29":"tag-united-kingdom","30":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115888187118865989","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}