Maciej Miłosz: Rzeczpospolita: ‘How to improve the acquisition of weapons?’“The budget is strained, the efficiency of defence spending needs to be improved and political will demonstrated. The promise of 5% of GDP is unrealistic — this year we will scope just over 4%. Let us review contracts, especially the acquisition of 96 AH-64 Apache (about 40 billion PLN plus ~100 billion PLN of maintenance), which may not be optimal. Smaller procurement and investment in drone systems and stronger support for national manufacture would increase efficiency. An independent, cadential institution is needed to measure the rationality of purchases."
