"If there was any indication that the Russian missile that violated Polish airspace was heading towards a target in Poland, it would have been shot down. It was monitored by our radars at all times," Minister of Defense Wladysław Kosiniak-Kamysz said.
@Paul_stilgar @noelreports There are reasons not to do it:
1. Falling debris of cruise missile or AA missile could kill someone.
2. You can't shoot things down when the airspace is not closed. Let's leave shooting down civilian aircraft to 🇷🇺.
3. No one has 100% AD coverage, not even 🇮🇱. 🇵🇱 GBAD is in a terrible state. It was already badly outdated before the war and then a lot (most?) of it was sent to Ukraine. F-16 couldn't get there in 39s.
4. 🇷🇺 would learn wartime modes of NATO radars/rockets.
