Raytheon is one of two defence industry companies competing for a contract to provide six batteries of medium-range Wisła missiles by 2022. Poland was considering four different systems (the Raytheon PATRIOT; MBDA’s ASTER 30; the Rafael/Raytheon STUNNER; and the Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) BARAK-8), but after closing a technical dialogue phase in mid-2014 there are just two contenders left: Raytheon offering PATRIOT(PAC-3 MSE, PAC-2 GEM-T, and PATRIOTNG) and Eurosam with SAMP/T. Poland wants the Polish defence industry to participate in 50%, including missile production.
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Raytheon announced that its plan is to have 52% of Poland’s industrial and technological cooperation. Raytheon proposes to manufacture parts of the GEM-T missile in Poland (Mesko), with Polish industry holding responsibility for the final assembly as well. Raytheon has also declared its readiness to work with Polish industry on the co-development (design, engineering, software) and co-production of the Next Generation PATRIOT (NG) system. This will include transfer of technology with component manufacturing, integration, assembly, system validation and test, training, service and sustainment, a joint/NATO training center, and a missile assembly and certification facility.
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If Raytheon is selected, Poland will be allowed to participate in developing and introducing of a new Common Command and Control (CC2), an advanced 360 degree multi-function radar and integration of a new advanced Low Cost Interceptor (LCI), which could be based on Rafael’s STUNNER (of DAVID’s SLING) or on fully new construction. So far Raytheon has signed cooperation agreements with several Polish companies which have been added to Raytheon’s approved supplier list. Recently Raytheon has signed agreement with Pit Radwar, Teldat, as well as Bumar Elektronika, which will be responsible for the design and development of a modernised PATRIOT Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) antenna. It will be a part of a new 360 degree radar proposed by Raytheon for Poland’s Wisla.
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While for initial capability in 2018 Raytheon is offering PAC-3+ with MSE and GEM-T missiles (1-2 batteries), for full capability it is offering a so-called PATRIOT NG (Next Generation) which might be ready around 2020-2022. This concept was created to a large extent after discussions with Polish decision-makers. During the first phase it would be manufactured for Polish Armed Forces and later it might be offered for export. Poland’s PATRIOT NG would be based on a new 360 degree radar, new missile (a completely new construction or a modification of an already existing missile, such as Israeli STUNNER) and a new BM4CI system with open architecture. Raytheon declared that the new BM4CI for PATRIOT NG will be fully assembled in Poland. It was agreed that it would be used not only in the Wisla medium-range system but also in Narew, a short-range system (likely NASAMS II with AIM-120 AMRAAM missiles) and POPRAD, a very short-range system (with Poland’s PIORUN missiles).
Raytheon announced that its plan is to have 52% of Poland’s industrial and technological cooperation. Raytheon proposes to manufacture parts of the GEM-T missile in Poland (Mesko), with Polish industry holding responsibility for the final assembly as well. Raytheon has also declared its readiness to work with Polish industry on the co-development (design, engineering, software) and co-production of the Next Generation PATRIOT (NG) system. This will include transfer of technology with component manufacturing, integration, assembly, system validation and test, training, service and sustainment, a joint/NATO training center, and a missile assembly and certification facility.
If Raytheon is selected, Poland will be allowed to participate in developing and introducing of a new Common Command and Control (CC2), an advanced 360 degree multi-function radar and integration of a new advanced Low Cost Interceptor (LCI), which could be based on Rafael’s STUNNER (of DAVID’s SLING) or on fully new construction. So far Raytheon has signed cooperation agreements with several Polish companies which have been added to Raytheon’s approved supplier list. Recently Raytheon has signed agreement with Pit Radwar, Teldat, as well as Bumar Elektronika, which will be responsible for the design and development of a modernised PATRIOT Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) antenna. It will be a part of a new 360 degree radar proposed by Raytheon for Poland’s Wisla.
While for initial capability in 2018 Raytheon is offering PAC-3+ with MSE and GEM-T missiles (1-2 batteries), for full capability it is offering a so-called PATRIOT NG (Next Generation) which might be ready around 2020-2022. This concept was created to a large extent after discussions with Polish decision-makers. During the first phase it would be manufactured for Polish Armed Forces and later it might be offered for export. Poland’s PATRIOT NG would be based on a new 360 degree radar, new missile (a completely new construction or a modification of an already existing missile, such as Israeli STUNNER) and a new BM4CI system with open architecture. Raytheon declared that the new BM4CI for PATRIOT NG will be fully assembled in Poland. It was agreed that it would be used not only in the Wisla medium-range system but also in Narew, a short-range system (likely NASAMS II with AIM-120 AMRAAM missiles) and POPRAD, a very short-range system (with Poland’s PIORUN missiles).
Robert Czulda