The Polish Navy will receive the HMS Soedermanland submarine under agreement with Sweden. Swedish media, among others, study on the transfer of the unit. The diary "Dagens Nyheter" notes that Stockholm is losing any of its resources, but will make up for this cooperation with Warsaw in the Baltic. presently the only submarine in the Polish service is the Orp Eagle.
Ministers of Defence of Sweden and Poland signed on Wednesday a memorandum specifying, among others, the number and dates of supplies of submarines and the framework of the future agreement. The Swedish side has undertaken to supply three fresh A26 Blekinge submarines. Before that happens, the Swedish Navy is to hand over Poland in 2027 the oldest of its 4 ships. It is built in 1988 and upgraded later HMS Soedermanland.
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According to the paper "Dagens Nyheter" Johan Granholm, lecturers of the Swedish Defence University, although after the transfer of the ship HMS Sodermanland Sweden will reduce its possible in the Baltic Sea to 3 submarines, both countries have akin problems in the confederate part of this reservoir. The expert recalled that Stockholm and Warsaw are allies in NATO, and The common threat is Rsia. According to Granholm, Swedish-Polish cooperation at the level of command, among others, can be expected.
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The Swedish expert expressed his knowing of the fact that Poland wanted to get earlier from Sweden the older ship HMS Soedermanland, due to the fact that "many structural and systemic aspects (of this unit) are the same as for fresh submarines".
The first ship A26 Blekinge for Poland is to be ready in 2030. This will become possible by expanding the production capacity of Saab-Kockums shipyard, as well as the production of components in Poland. At the same facility in Karlskrona there are now 2 submarines of the same class for the Swedish Navy.
Deal with the Swedes. Poland will increase its possible at sea
Polish sailors now have 1 obsolete ship Orp "Earl", built in 1985 in the USSR.
The agreement signed on Wednesday is another step towards the acquisition of submarines. However, this is not yet an appropriate implementing agreement – a possible deadline for its conclusion by the Deputy Prime Minister, the head of the MON Władysław Kosiniak-Kamish specified for the second 4th of next year.
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The Swedish offer provides for the transportation of 3 A26 Blekinge ships produced by Saab-Kockums shipyard. Currently, the first 2 ships of this kind are being formed for the Swedish Navy.
The A26 Blekinge units are based on modular design, equipped with diesel-electric drive, as well as an air-independent drive module (AIP), expanding the anticipation of long stay in immersion. The main weaponry of the ships is torpedoes of 533 mm caliber and a dock allowing, among others, the launching of submarine unmanneds or the movement of soldiers in a secretive way in place of peculiar troops missions.
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