Purchase of Multirole Fighter Aircraft for Poland as a Guarantee of Airspace Security and Strengthening International Position

• Authors: Kalwat Marcin
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The main goal of the paper is to analyze the current state of the combat aircraft in the Polish Air Forces, and on that account draw a conclusion regarding the potential need of purchasing a new multirole fighter in order to increase the national air defense capability. The first section of the article is dedicated to a thorough description of the aircraft that constitute today the Polish Air Forces, i.e. the SU-22 “Fitter”, MiG-29 “Fulcrum”, and F-16 “Fighting Falcon”. Advantages and disadvantages of each aircraft are presented and discussed. The article is concluded with the statement that for the sake of the Polish airspace and overall security the country has to invest and acquire a new modern multi-purpose aircraft capable of performing a full range of combat missions.

Keywords

EN

multirole fighter air craft; airspace security; SU-22; MiG-29; F-16

• Publisher: Centrum Rzeczoznawstwa Budowlanego Sp. z o.o.
• Journal: Safety & Defense
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 3
• Pages: 19-24

Dates

published

2017

Contributors

author

Kalwat Marcin

• Faculty of Management and Command War Studies University Al. gen. Antoniego Chruściela „Montera” 103, 00-910 Warszawa, Poland

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Identifiers

ISSN

2450-551X