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Poland monitoring maritime situation, navy on alert says president

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The situation in the maritime domain around Europe is under constant observation and the Polish navy is in a state of readiness, the country's president, Andrzej Duda, said on Friday.

Poland buys naval training system from Saab

Poland has signed a purchase contract with Sweden's Saab for a system to train naval crews in anti-submarine warfare, as Warsaw boosts its defence spending amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Saab to design two ships for Polish Navy

Poland has signed a deal with Swedish firm Saab for the construction of two radio-electronic surveillance ships for the Polish Navy, a spokesman for the Armament Agency has told PAP.

World’s oldest surviving destroyer dubbed ‘ship of heroes’ to get 7mln PLN makeover

Holding Poland’s highest military decoration, the Gold Cross of the Order of Virtuti Militari, the Błyskawica has been described as being “a precious national relic”, not to mention a symbol of Polish heroism.

Gdynia cleared as huge WWII parachute bomb weighing ONE TONNE is detonated 3km out to sea

The operation to move the bomb, which was most likely dropped by Hitler’s Luftwaffe at the start of the war, began at 8am and took nearly six hours before it could be exploded.

Poland orders four choppers for its Navy

A PLN 1.65 billion (EUR 430 million) contract for the delivery of four AW101 helicopters for the Polish Navy was signed in Świdnik, south-east Poland, on Friday.

Europe’s third biggest defence expo launches in Kielce

This year’s event, which runs from 4 to 7 September, will feature over 600 exhibits, more than half of which will be from Poland. Delegations from 31 other countries will also be in attendance.

US destroyer to visit port of Gdynia

US Navy destroyer USS Farragut will moor at the northern Polish port of Gdynia's French Quay on Friday afternoon for a three-day working visit. She will sail on Sunday.

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They say love don't come easy - but it does in Bielsko-Biała!

I must apologise if this column is not the academic or historical discourse that this city so richly deserves, but it is the Bielsko-Biała that revealed itself to me – it’s also the Bielsko-Biała that I fell desperately in love with. I’m pretty sure, you will as well.

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Warsaw’s secret war against Moscow’s spies: Poland’s intelligence services have gone into overdrive to combat Putin’s covert assault

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