Purchase of multirole fighter aircraft for Poland as a guarantee of air space security and strenghtening international position

Abstract

The main goal of the paper is to analyze the current state of the combat aircraft in the Polish Air Forces, and on that account draw a conclusion regarding the potential need of purchasing a new multirole fighter in order to increase the national air defense capability. The first section of the article is dedicated to a thorough description of the aircraft that constitute today the Polish Air Forces, i.e. the SU-22 “Fitter”, MiG-29 “Fulcrum”, and F-16 “Fighting Falcon”. Advantages and disadvantages of each aircraft are presented and discussed. The article is concluded with the statement that for the sake of the Polish airspace and overall security the country has to invest and acquire a new modern multi-purpose aircraft capable of performing a full range of combat missions

Keywords

• multirole
• fighter aircraft
• airspace security
• SU-22
• MiG-29
• F-16