Poland plans to buy US jeeps, transport planes

WARSAW (AFP) Apr 23, 2003
Poland, fresh from sealing eastern Europe's biggest military procurement deal with Washington, now wants to buy 400 US HMMWV jeeps and several Hercules transport planes, deputy defence minister Janusz Zemke says.

Zemke was quoted on Wednesday by the Trybuna daily as saying during a visit to Moscow the US equipment would be second hand.

He said the acquisition could be financed by a "non-repayable loan from the US government" of 27 million dollars.

Poland last Friday signed a 3.5-billion-dollar (3.2-billion-euro) contract to buy 48 F-16 fighter jets from US group Lockheed Martin that was signed Friday.

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