Polish army. The head of the Ministry of National Defense: Poland will buy South Korean FA-50 planes and K2 Black Panther tanks
Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of National Defense Mariusz Błaszczak, that Poland will sign in a week with Korea on the capture of K2 tanks, K9 cannon howitzers and the acquisition of three squadrons of FA-50 combat aircraft. The first cannon-howitzers and tanks will be delivered to Poland this year, the planes – in the heg – were handed over to the head of the Ministry of National Defense.
– In the tools to solve the problem, which have been checked by South Korea. In the matter of aid to the army of military equipment, they use weapons, because they are Korean children’s weapons – said Mariusz Błaszczak at the Friday briefing. He emphasized that these were K2 tanks, K9 cannon howitzers and three squadrons of FA-50 aircraft. In the Polish Air Force, one squadron has 16 machines.
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Security that the first cannon-howitzers and tanks will be delivered to Poland this year, and in the first year – the first place for aircraft. – Therefore, the defense capabilities of the Republic of Poland will increase abruptly. We care about deadlines for, we have ahead of Poland, what we have in Ukraine, what time we have from Putin’s (Vladim) politics, from Putin’s Russian service – the deputy prime minister’s service.
– Initialization is to deter the aggressor and the scale of the Polish Army as large as possible – he stressed.
Błaszczak of his review that the agreement to the result of the annual visit to Seoul and the issue of, inter alia, with the rotation of the national minister. “We will make the most of the power of the Polish arms industry, we have access to resources, as much as possible cannon-howitzers within the available equipment. , will be made in South Korea – position.
As he claimed, he also recommended a position in the first company that produced in South Korea, there was also a position intended for work in Poland. Closer to the later production of Pol, that they are performed for the benefit between the employees of the Grupa Grupa and the technical companies in the field of servicing this equipment.
Early in “Sie” weeks, Błaszczak said that Poland was going to buy 48 FA-50 planes and every 180 K2 Black Panther tanks.
Gen. Pszczoła on FA-50 combat aircraft
The air force inspector at the General Command of the Armed Forces of the general divisions, pilot Jacek Pszczoła told PAP that South Korea has produced the FA-50 aircraft, the center on the F-16 site. He added that the FA-50 is a lightweight, two-seater multi-role aircraft very similar to the F-16 only smaller smaller.
So far – he reminded – the authors of the FA-50 are used by five countries: South Korea, Indonesia, Iraq, the Philippines and Thailand. He generated that he did that a Korean plane with the task of performing an air-to-air task and hanging it could be transported, among others, by for carrying laser guided weapons.
General or not was the next one that South Korean planes will be hard to integrate with foreign systems in the Polish election forces and whether the Polish military aviation infrastructure is ready to accept machines. – When it comes to interoperability with the platforms that are used and will be used in Polish behavior, this integration will be maintained as much as possible (…). The maintenance work on the returned-16 system, and as for who wants to go to that infrastructure, is sufficient for these planes to seamlessly adopt to our efforts to ensure, Forces assured.
Asked that the FA-50 is armed. – The site assures us that a pilot trained for 16 needs a lot of hours for the F FA to fly – said General Pszczoły.
I also conveyed that the FA-50 will be new machines for Poland. The general announced that the first part would arrive “fairly soon”, but he would not give any.
Photo Source: US Army photo by Pfc. Dasol Choi