{"id":4544,"date":"2018-12-05T22:24:56","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T22:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=4544"},"modified":"2018-12-05T22:24:56","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T22:24:56","slug":"poland-accelerates-fighter-replacement-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/12\/05\/poland-accelerates-fighter-replacement-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"POLAND ACCELERATES FIGHTER REPLACEMENT PLANS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/12\/poland-mig-29-1170x610.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4545\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/12\/poland-mig-29-1170x610-1024x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/12\/poland-mig-29-1170x610-1024x534.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/12\/poland-mig-29-1170x610-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/12\/poland-mig-29-1170x610-768x400.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/12\/poland-mig-29-1170x610-560x292.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/12\/poland-mig-29-1170x610-260x136.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/12\/poland-mig-29-1170x610-160x83.jpg 160w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/12\/poland-mig-29-1170x610.jpg 1170w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: Flight Global<\/p>\n<p>Poland is to accelerate the replacement of its air force&#8217;s RAC MiG-29 fighters and Sukhoi Su-22 ground-attack aircraft on the instructions of the country&#8217;s defence minister.<\/p>\n<p>Mariusz B\u0142aszczak, minister of national defence, has repeatedly stated his aim of removing Soviet-era aircraft from Warsaw&#8217;s inventory.<\/p>\n<p>But now B\u0142aszczak has instructed the chief of general staff of the Polish armed forces to speed up the implementation of the replacement programme under its Harpia requirement.<\/p>\n<p>Poland is seeking aircraft that can perform a number of combat roles, including certain maritime operations and electronic warfare missions.<\/p>\n<p>According to the deputy defence minister, Wojciech Skurkiewicz, &#8220;the end of the analytical and conceptual phase of the Harpia programme is planned for the end of February 2019. Deliveries of new aircraft should begin in 2024.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Picture Source: The Defence Post<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: https:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/news\/articles\/poland-accelerates-fighter-replacement-plans-454094\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Flight Global Poland is to accelerate the replacement of its air force&#8217;s RAC MiG-29 fighters and Sukhoi Su-22 ground-attack aircraft on the instructions of the country&#8217;s defence minister. Mariusz B\u0142aszczak, minister of national defence, has repeatedly stated his aim of removing Soviet-era aircraft from Warsaw&#8217;s inventory. But now B\u0142aszczak has instructed the chief of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/12\/05\/poland-accelerates-fighter-replacement-plans\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">POLAND ACCELERATES FIGHTER REPLACEMENT PLANS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-industry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4544","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=4544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4546,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4544\/revisions\/4546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}