Poland hopes to buy the American Patriot air and missile defence system, Defence Minister Antoni Macierewicz said on Saturday, signalling a $5 billion deal may be struck despite the new conservative government's initial doubts. In April 2015, Poland's centrist government said it would buy Raytheon's Patriot missiles, a deal which the then opposition conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party said it would review should it come to power.
Following PiS' election victory in October, the new government questioned whether the "original cost and timeline assumptions, as well as those regarding the scope of (US) cooperation with Polish industry," could be met, adding it might scrap the deal.