The Polish Defence Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz has said that all civilian airports must be adapted and modernised to be potentially used by the Polish Air Force.
Speaking to Polish Radio, Kosiniak-Kamysz said civilian airports will be able to used as transportation and cargo hubs, evacuation points and in the event of an emergency there will also be air points.
Kosiniak-Kamysz said, “Every airport must be adapted and in some way adapted to the possibility of cooperating and working with the military.”
He said at some civilian airports work is already underway as a cargo hub, together with a railway siding, with fuel supplies.”
These are currently being built at Wroclaw and Katowice and at Krakow a “preparatory process” is underway.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has said that if the whole of NATO matched Poland’s spending the combined defence budget would be ten times that of Russia putting the alliance in pole position.
Tusk said, “Other countries should not pay 1.5% of their GDP for defence — this is not enough.”
“If all European countries start taking their obligations in NATO seriously, I am sure America will be happy to cooperate with us,” Tusk added.
The US President Donald Trump has called on NATO to raise their target to 5% of GDP which is far higher than the mere 2% target.
