Belgium to buy Piorun air-defence systems from Poland and train Polish F-35 pilots

Belgium to buy Piorun air-defence systems from Poland and train Polish F-35 pilots

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[The event that took place on May 12 at the Mesko plant](https://defence24.pl/sily-zbrojne/polskie-pioruny-leca-do-belgii) resulted in the signing of two documents. The first of them was the officially known letter of intent regarding Polish-Belgian cooperation in the area of, among others, air defense. This refers here **especially to very short-range systems in the form of shoulder-mounted launchers with Piorun missiles**. In addition, the coo…