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This is to facilitate the Polish Armed

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Forces development of their attack

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aviation capability with the fielding

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of their 96 H-64s . It's an opportunity

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to work together to bring this

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capability into the NATO alliance . Now

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we're in our second summit . We've got

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planned training exercises coming up .

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Continuing to develop this relationship

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is just extremely important . That is

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why we need so many combat helicopters

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just to protect the east flank of NATO ,

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not only Poland , but also we are part

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of alliances . A 64 Echo is still a

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battle winning capability into the 21st

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century , taking Apache from being a

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tool of counterinsurgency to being a

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war fighting platform where we're able

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to operate at mass . So what we're

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really talking about now is like

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massing aviation to deliver effect in a

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war fighting scenario against a peer

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adversary . We are facing the huge

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transition from post-Soviet fleet of

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helicopters to brand new Apache fleet ,

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which is very advanced , highly combat

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capable . Apache is a very complex

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weapons system . The best solution is

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just to ask somebody who knows . Forces

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that are present here in Europe , the

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importance of us being here and helping

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our NATO allies modernize their force

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while we're learning from them as we

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begin to modernize our own forces .