Alenia Aermacchi has signed a contract with the Polish Defence Ministry for the supply eight M-346 advanced trainer jets worth $383 mil...
Alenia Aermacchi has signed a contract with the Polish Defence Ministry for the supply eight M-346 advanced trainer jets worth $383 million (€280 million). The contract raises the number of M-346 aircraft ordered to date to 56.
The deal also include logistic support, a training programme for pilots and engineers and ground-based training system with dedicated classroom and educational materials. After Italy, Singapore and Israel, Poland is the fourth customer to order the M-346, considered the most advanced/ lead-in fighter trainer aircraft specifically designed to train pilots to fly high-performance new generation military aircraft.
M-346 will replace some of the Polish Air Force’s aged fleet of PZL Mielec TS-11 Iskras. Poland announced the deal in December following a competition also involving the BAE Systems Hawk and the Korea Aerospace Industries T-50 trainer jets.
