– fresh procedures for combating abroad objects entering Poland's airspace enter into force. You won't request visual recognition anymore, just radar information. This is crucial at the present time between peace and war – Deputy Prime Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz informed. The change will make combating intruders in airspace easier.
– I received a study from General Ireneusz Nowak, commander of operational types of armed forces. Everything is ready, fresh procedures are being implemented. 1 October is simply a good time not only to start the academic year, but besides to implement fresh procedures – said Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz yesterday. The Minister of National Defence added that the changes were made at the level of the interior regulations of the Armed Forces Operations Command, there was no request for legislative changes.
The steps taken by the Ministry of Defence are a consequence to a increasing threat from Russia. “We simplify procedures for pilots, radio-location strategy operators. The changes are orderly, they let to shorten the consequence time – said Colonel Jacek Goryszewski, spokesperson for DORSZ. He added that these actions were taken under the influence of lessons learned from incidents and regular activities of air defence systems.
The fresh regulations consist in passing the army from the VID procedure, i.e. visual identification, to the PID of affirmative identification. This is intended to reduce consequence time and let pilots and ground systems to decision faster from detecting a abroad object to identifying a threat and taking action. In simplification, the pilot or its commander will be able to decide to shoot down a abroad object on the basis of information collected by radars and another systems without requiring visual identification.
The head of the MON, by profession of doctor, stresses that in specified situations it is crucial to ‘algorithm of conduct, i.e. rules forged to sheet’, as in medicine, the rules of conduct in the event of cardiac arrest. “There must be automation here, there is no time to wonder,” said Władysław Kosiniak-Kamish. The national defence minister, explaining the reasons for the changes, cited talks with air defence soldiers, both serving ground-based anti-aircraft and anti-missile systems as well as fighter pilots. – It was very crucial to have clarity of action, (...) due to the fact that there is no classical peace, but there is no classical war either," he added.
Already a week ago, the changes were announced by Deputy Minister of defence Cezary Tomczyk. – We are changing procedures in the Polish Army, alternatively of visual recognition it will be called affirmative identification. If the pilot has information, for example radar, and the object crosses or enters the no-fly zone, this will be the basis for the operational commander and for the pilot to usage force," said Tomczyk on TVN24. At the same time, the Deputy Minister admitted that Russian provocations would be repeated in the coming months.
A week ago, On 23 September, a Russian chopper breached Polish space Air in the area of Braniewa (Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship) close the border with the royal circuit. In mid-September close Jarosław (West Pomeranian Voivodeship) The military on the Baltic shore fished a Russian drone out of the sea Gerbera type. At the end of July in Tarnavia-Kolony in Lublin Voivodeship fell armed Russian projectile Ch-101.
