Media: Poland to buy US spy balloons to control airspace of Ukraine and Belarus

The Polsat TV channel reported that Poland will sign an agreement with the United States in late May on the purchase of several Barbara reconnaissance balloons to control the airspace of Ukraine, Belarus and Russia’s Kaliningrad Region, TASS reports

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It is noted that only the details of the agreement need to be finalised so that Poland can sign this document.

Spy balloons are reported to be permanently stationed near the borders, enabling to ‘detect aerial targets flying at low altitudes more effectively than ground-based radar stations’. Polish authorities said they would be able to monitor every object that could ‘illegally appear on the country’s territory’.

Poland will become Europe’s first country to receive such balloons.