MSPO 2016: Bell plans advance on Kielce
Polish defence officials are understood to be planning to outline their defence modernisation priorities to industry on 7 September at MSPO in Kielce.
With uncertainty hanging over several key defence procurements, Warsaw is expected to use the second day of the exhibition to provide clarity of its acquisition plans for 2017-2019.
Given that billions of dollars of defence investments are on the line, any official announcement will be hotly anticipated by international and domestic defence suppliers alike, giving MSPO a suspense largely absent from contemporary trade shows.
Warsaw has major procurements planned across the armoured vehicles, C4ISR, simulation
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