Poland Has Given The Go-ahead For San's Latest Drone-fighting System

• 30.01.2026, 14:27

It will be used as part of the Eastern Shield system.

Poland on Friday signed a contract for the development and delivery of the latest San anti-drone system, which will be used as part of the Eastern Shield system.

Polish news agency PAP reported.

The signing ceremony took place at the PIT-Radwar facility in Kobylka near Warsaw with the participation of Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz.

The contract was awarded by the Polish Armaments Agency and a consortium including Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa (PGZ), APS and Norwegian defense giant Kongsberg.

The project is designed for rapid implementation, with the program scheduled to be completed in two years. According to unofficial reports, the contract is worth about 15 billion zlotys (about 3.6 billion euros).

Prime Minister Donald Tusk called the event historic, emphasizing that the San system will be a key element of the Eastern Shield initiative.

"We are dealing with an absolute breakthrough in the issue of effective, efficient defense of the eastern border of Poland, Europe and NATO, and this in the most sensitive element, which is air defense, above all defense against modern techniques of aggression," Donald Tusk said.

He also emphasized that it is crucial for Poland that the Eastern Shield reliably protects the skies from the latest threats, and the involvement of Norwegian expertise through Kongsberg guarantees the highest level of technology.

San is a comprehensive multi-layered defense system that will include 30mm cannons using programmable ammunition, low-cost APKWS precision-guided missiles, interceptor drones designed to destroy enemy UAVs in the air, and sensors to see targets that are "hiding" from REBs.