{"id":5497,"date":"2018-01-01T13:02:40","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T13:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=5497"},"modified":"2018-01-03T15:03:51","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T15:03:51","slug":"polish-navy-orders-570m-minesweepers-rescue-vessel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/polish-navy-orders-570m-minesweepers-rescue-vessel\/","title":{"rendered":"Polish Navy orders $570M minesweepers, rescue vessel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Poland spends US$570 million on minesweepers, rescue vessel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Polish Ministry of Defence has signed a deal with a consortium formed by the Gdansk-based Remontowa Shipbuilding shipyard and the country\u2019s defense giant PGZ to receive two minesweeper vessels and one rescue vessel.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe are rebuilding the Polish Navy, which was forgotten for many years,\u201d Deputy Defence Minister Bartosz Kownacki said in a statement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Polish Deputy Defence Minister Bartosz Kownacki told reporters that the new orders were an important part of efforts to revive Poland\u2019s shipbuilding industry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He added that the government contracts would benefit both the privately-run Remontowa Shipbuilding yard and state-owned producers working as part of the Polish Armaments Group (PGZ).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The\u00a0ORP Kormoran\u00a0is the first in a series of three modern minehunters that have been commissioned for the 8th Coast Defence Flotilla of the Polish navy, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Kormoran minesweeper&#8217;s main functions are seeking, identifying, and destroying mines and escorting other naval vessels through the areas of mine danger risk.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The minesweepers were intended for combat missions in the Baltic Sea, the North Sea, and other waters within NATO allied territory,\u00a0Polish News Agency (PAP) reported.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Polish navy is being rebuilt after many years of neglect, Kownack said, with a focus on reconstructing its shipbuilding industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poland spends US$570 million on minesweepers, rescue vessel The Polish Ministry of Defence has signed a deal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[62,1],"tags":[6,357,90,54,113,91],"class_list":["post-5497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","tag-defense","tag-europe","tag-navy","tag-poland","tag-security","tag-warship"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/poland-navy.jpg?fit=690%2C370&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-1qF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5497"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5514,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5497\/revisions\/5514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}