华沙，10月27日 —— 副国防部长马格达莱娜·索布科维亚克-查尔内茨卡周二表示，将在波兰设立一座由洛克希德·马丁公司制造的“爱国者”拦截导弹维护中心。
WARSAW, Oct 27 - A maintenance centre for Lockheed Martin-made Patriot interceptor missiles will be established in Poland, Deputy Defence Minister Magdalena Sobkowiak-Czarnecka said on Tuesday.
乌克兰和中东的战争耗尽了防空拦截导弹库存并导致交付延迟，促使各国寻求更靠近本土的维护和生产能力。
Wars in Ukraine and the Middle East have strained stocks of air-defence interceptor missiles and caused delivery delays, prompting countries to seek maintenance and production capabilities closer to home.
索布科维亚克-查尔内茨卡表示，波兰的这座中心将是美国境外唯一的一座。
The centre in Poland will be the only one outside the United States, Sobkowiak-Czarnecka said.
“四个国家竞争这项投资的欧洲选址：除波兰外，还有德国、荷兰和挪威……这一成功并非理所当然，”索布科维亚克-查尔内茨卡在社交媒体平台上写道。随后她告诉记者，该投资价值约为10亿兹罗提（2.5341亿美元），并将需要十几个月才能使中心投入运营。
"Four countries competed for the European location of this investment: alongside Poland — Germany, the Netherlands, and Norway ... This success was not a given," Sobkowiak-Czarnecka wrote on social media platform She later told reporters that the value of the investment would be around 1 billion zlotys ($253.41 million) and that it would take a dozen or so months to make the centre operational.
将中心设在欧洲将比以往更快地实现导弹维修，此前导弹必须运往美国。
Locating the centre in Europe will allow for quicker servicing of missiles than earlier, when they had to be sent to the US.