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World Tribune February 4, 2010 Poland buys Israeli UAVs for use in Afghanistan LONDON — Poland has selected an Israeli tactical unmanned aerial vehicle for operations in Afghanistan. The Polish Defense Ministry has reached agreement to purchase UAV systems from Israel's Aeronautics Defense Systems. Officials said the UAV would be deployed by the Polish military contingent of NATO in Afghanistan. "Four UAVs will be delivered to Afghanistan, and the four others will be used for training in Poland," Polish Defense Minister Bogdan Klich said. In a Feb. 1 news conference, Klich did not identify the Israeli UAV. He said the award to Aeronautics was worth $32 million. Israel has supplied UAV systems to a range of Western militaries in the NATO stabilization campaign in Afghanistan. They included such platforms as the Heron and Searcher-3 UAVs for such countries as Australia, Canada, France, the Netherlands and Spain. This marked at least the second Aeronautics project in Afghanistan. In March 2009, Aeronautics signed a $50 million contract to provide Aerostar UAVs to the Royal Netherlands Army. Industry sources said Aerostar was believed to have been selected by Poland as well. Aerostar, employed by the Israeli military and U.S. Navy, was reported to have an endurance of 12 hours. The platform was said to have a range of 300 kilometers. =========================== Stop NATO http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stopnato Blog site: http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/ To subscribe, send an e-mail to: rwroz...@yahoo.com or stopnato-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Daily digest option available. ==============================