On Monday, Poland received the first launchers of the US missile system "HIMARS".
Polish television broadcast the ceremony of the arrival of a transport plane at Warsaw Military Airport.
Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak said during the ceremony, "Today we receive the first HIMARS systems in the Polish army."
He explained that the first batch of HIMARS systems will be delivered to the 1st Artillery Brigade of the 16th Mechanized Division stationed in the northeast of the country.
In 2019, Poland purchased 20 HIMARS systems with 18 launchers and two training platforms at a value of $414 million.
Last February, Poland expressed its desire to purchase another 500 systems of this type.
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