(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) Germany has offered Warsaw the Patriot missile defense system to
help it to secure its airspace after a stray missile crashed in
Poland last week, Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht told a
newspaper on Sunday, trend reports citing al
arabiya .
The German government had already said it would offer its
neighbor further help in air policing with German Eurofighters
after the incident, which initially raised fears that the war in
Ukraine could spill across the border.
“We have offered Poland support in securing airspace - with our
Eurofighters and with Patriot air defense systems,” Lambrecht told
the Rheinische Post and General Anzeiger.
The missile that hit Poland last week, killing two people,
appeared to have been fired by Ukraine's air defenses rather than a
Russian strike, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg has said.
Ground-based air defense systems such as Raytheon's Patriot are
built to intercept incoming missiles.
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