{"id":513570,"date":"2026-01-30T11:59:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T08:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=513570"},"modified":"2026-01-30T12:13:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T09:13:18","slug":"poland-begins-deployment-of-anti-drone-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/poland-begins-deployment-of-anti-drone-system","title":{"rendered":"Poland Begins Deployment of Anti-Drone System"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Poland is beginning the deployment of the \u201cSan\u201d anti-drone system. Today, in the presence of Prime Minister <b>Donald Tusk<\/b> and Defense Minister <b>W\u0142adys\u0142aw Kosiniak-Kamysz<\/b>, contracts were signed for the supply of equipment, weapons, and system integration. The project will be implemented by a consortium consisting of the Polish Armaments Group, the private company APS, and Norway\u2019s Kongsberg. The system is expected to be deployed within two years. Its cost is estimated at 15 billion zlotys (about $4.3 billion).<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cWe are dealing with an absolute breakthrough in terms of effective and efficient protection of the Polish, European, and NATO eastern border, as well as in the most sensitive element \u2014 air defense, above all protection against modern methods of aggression,\u201d<\/i> Prime Minister Donald Tusk said.<\/p>\n<p>According to W\u0142adys\u0142aw Kosiniak-Kamysz, the plan is to obtain 18 anti-drone batteries, 52 fire platoons, 18 command platoons, and more than 700 vehicles of various purposes.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cAll this means that we will be extremely effective in countering threats coming from the east. The night of September 9 to 10, when our airspace was violated and Russian unmanned aerial vehicles appeared over NATO territory for the first time, became a turning point,\u201d<\/i> he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to Poland\u2019s Ministry of National Defence, the \u201cSan\u201d system will consist of anti-aircraft batteries, each including three fire platoons and a support platoon. Each fire platoon will have the capability to independently detect, track, identify, and engage aerial targets. As <a href=\"https:\/\/defence24.pl\/\">Defence24<\/a> writes, the platoons will be equipped with 30 mm and 35 mm cannons, 12.7 mm machine guns, small interceptor missiles, kamikaze drones, and electronic warfare systems. It is assumed that \u201cSan\u201d will be able to counter not only strike drones of the Shahed-Gerbera type, but also smaller unmanned aerial vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSan\u201d will become another layer of Poland\u2019s air defense system, which already includes the \u201cWisla\u201d system based on Patriot medium-range air defense systems, the \u201cNarew\u201d system based on CAMM short-range air defense systems, as well as \u201cPilica\u201d and \u201cPilica+\u201d systems based on anti-aircraft guns and Grom and Piorun man-portable air defense systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poland is beginning the deployment of the \u201cSan\u201d anti-drone system. Today, in the presence of Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Defense Minister W\u0142adys\u0142aw Kosiniak-Kamysz, contracts were signed for the supply of equipment, weapons, and system integration. The project will be implemented by a consortium consisting of the Polish Armaments Group, the private company APS, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":513569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/697c7634044e1.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Poland Begins Deployment of Anti-Drone System"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-513570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}