
Poland is leasing General Atomics' MQ-9A Reaper drones as an interim step in the nation's planned buy of Reapers and Turkish TB2 Bayraktars to help defend Poland from possible Russian aggression. Last year, Poland signed an agreement with Turkey to buy 24 TB2s. "There is no modern army without drones," Polish Deputy Prime Minister Mariusz Błaszczak said last week. "The high effectiveness of the equipment wss provided by Ukraine which used these modern drones to defend themselves against the Russians."…