16 Pomeranian Mechanized Division increases its numbers and strengthens its combat possible through continuous training of soldiers and, among others, the successive implementation of modern combat vehicles. In fresh times another batch of fresh K2GF tanks and light reconnaissance vehicles of the Legwan have reached the Amber Division.
More tanks K2GF Black Panther They've just been equipped. 9th Armored Cavalry Brigade. It's about 28 machines that were unloaded in the Gdynia port in late August. They will shortly be utilized during training soldiers 2nd Tank Battalion The taking brigade. – In our battalion we have a trained full tank company after the primary course, which allows to start program training," said Colonel Przemysław Stański, commander of 2nd Battalion. The subdivision commanded by him has functioned so far in a mixed structure, in which the PT-91 hard tanks dominated. According to military plans, the full division (56 wagons) is to be equipped with South Korean K2.
This process had already undergone the 1st Battalion of Tanks of the Bravian Brigade, to which the first K2 reached in late 2024, and by mid-2025 the full division had already trained utilizing fresh wagons. In structure 9 BKPanc there is 3rd Tank Battalion from Elbląg, whose soldiers inactive usage the utilized Toughmen. It is besides intended to receive the Black Panthers, possibly already in the K2PL version, whose production is due to start in the first 4th of 2028.
Iguanas for recognition
While another K2 tanks arrived in Braniewa, located just a fewer kilometres from the border with the royal circuit, in Koniecki close Ełk, they settled in New Iguanas. It is about light reconnaissance vehicles 4x4, manufactured by the consortium of PGZ and Rosomak based on the light tactical vehicle KLTV (Kia Light Tactical Vehicle).
The cars went to 16 Reconnaissance Battalionwho is 1 of the youngest subdivisions of 16 DZ. It is stationed in a recently built barracks complex in Koniecki (official beginning took place in February 2026). From here to the border with the royal circuit is about 50 km. – 16 Reconnaissance Battalion is the "eyes and ears" of the 16th Mechanized Division. Our task is to get and transmit all the reconnaissance information for the purposes of carrying out division tasks," said Colonel Robert Chupka, commander of the 16th Battalion.
Another Legwans reached the division in Koniecki under the agreement of 2023. The Armed Forces Agency then ordered nearly 400 specified vehicles with transportation dates by 2030. The first users of modern Honker successors were soldiers 20 The Bartoshite Mechanized Brigade. Thanks to the framework agreement concluded in 2025, more than 1,200 vehicles of Polish production based on KLTV are to be sent to the Polish army in various variants (light reconnaissance cars, advanced mobility trucks, 4x4) with the completion date by 2035.
