The United States will deploy ground-to-air Patriot missiles in Poland in 2010 and is discussing its plans for a new anti-missile system with Warsaw, a US defence official said Friday.

"We presented some detailed information on how the rotations of our Patriot batteries would be conducted over the next few years under the August 2008 agreement" with Poland, US Assistant Secretary of Defence for International Security Alexander Vershbow said in Warsaw.

"We look forward to the commencement of those rotations next year," Vershbow said following talks with Poland's Deputy Defence Minister Stanislaw Komorowski Friday ahead of next week's visit by Vice President Joe Biden.

The Patriot missile battery "will be armed and possess elements permitting it to be integrated with the Polish defence system," Komorowski added.

Friday's high-level talks also focused on US proposals for Poland's role in the architecture of the European part of President Barack Obama's proposed new anti-missile system.

"We are very interested in the possibility that Poland would be the host country for one of the two land-based SM-3 missile sites that are envisaged under the four-staged plan that President Obama has laid out," Vershbow said.

"This system is specifically designed to protect all of NATO as well as US forces and US civilians based in Europe," he added.

In September Poland's Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said Washington would deploy Patriot-type anti-missile missiles in Poland despite dropping plans for a stationary anti-missile system based in eastern Europe to counter Iranian rockets.

At the same time US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said that aside from the Patriots Washington aims to deploy new SM-3 missiles in Poland and the Czech Republic in 2015.

Last month Obama scrapped a plan agreed by his Republican predecessor George W. Bush to install a controversial anti-missile system in the two neighbours.

The Bush administration said the shield was designed to deal with attacks by so-called "rogue" states, namely Iran, but Russia slammed it as a threat to its national security.

Obama said that after a rethink, and the realisation that Iran was developing its own missiles more slowly than anticipated, his administration was opting for a more flexible system.