{"id":2359,"date":"2017-07-06T16:58:57","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T16:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=2359"},"modified":"2017-07-06T16:58:57","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T16:58:57","slug":"poland-set-to-buy-patriot-missile-system-as-trump-visits-warsaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/07\/06\/poland-set-to-buy-patriot-missile-system-as-trump-visits-warsaw\/","title":{"rendered":"POLAND SET TO BUY PATRIOT MISSILE SYSTEM AS TRUMP VISITS WARSAW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/07\/PATRIOT.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2361\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/07\/PATRIOT.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/07\/PATRIOT.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/07\/PATRIOT-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/07\/PATRIOT-768x415.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/07\/PATRIOT-560x303.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/07\/PATRIOT-260x141.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/07\/PATRIOT-160x87.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sourced : Bloomberg<\/p>\n<p>By Wojciech Moskwa<\/p>\n<p>Poland\u2019s government agreed to buy the Patriot missile defense system from the U.S., Polish state news agency PAP reported on Wednesday as President Donald Trump started his 16-hour visit to Warsaw.<\/p>\n<p>In March, Polish Defense Minister Antoni Macierewicz said he planned to sign a contract, valued at less than 30 billion zloty ($8 billion), with Patriot producer Raytheon Co. by the end of the year. The first deliveries of the missile interceptors, which have been a source of tension between NATO and Russia, may take place within two years, he said then.<\/p>\n<p>Poland, a formerly communist nation that shares a border with Russia, is one of the few NATO members that meet the alliance\u2019s defense-spending target of 2 percent of economic output. Trump will meet his Polish counterpart Andrzej Duda in Warsaw on Thursday to discuss military and energy security before traveling to Germany for a meeting of the G-20 industrialized nations.<\/p>\n<p>Image Sourced : Sputnik<\/p>\n<p>Read more at : https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-07-05\/poland-agrees-to-buy-u-s-patriot-rockets-as-trump-visits-warsaw?cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&amp;utm_content=business&amp;utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sourced : Bloomberg By Wojciech Moskwa Poland\u2019s government agreed to buy the Patriot missile defense system from the U.S., Polish state news agency PAP reported on Wednesday as President Donald Trump started his 16-hour visit to Warsaw. In March, Polish Defense Minister Antoni Macierewicz said he planned to sign a contract, valued at less than&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/07\/06\/poland-set-to-buy-patriot-missile-system-as-trump-visits-warsaw\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">POLAND SET TO BUY PATRIOT MISSILE SYSTEM AS TRUMP VISITS WARSAW<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[66,856,673,1592,27,98],"class_list":["post-2359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-industry","tag-nato","tag-patriot","tag-poland","tag-raytheon-co","tag-russia","tag-u-s","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2362,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359\/revisions\/2362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}