Bumar-Łabada and the South Korean Hyundai Rotem Company signed a technology transfer agreement for K2PL tank production. The paper will enable the installation line to be launched in Poland. The first vehicles should get off it in 2029. Production will take place in Gliwice.
K2 tanks at the camp in Orzysz, photograph by Paulina Gibner/16 DZ
The agreement is simply a consequence of an agreement concluded this summer. Ministry of Defence and Hyundai Rotem Company agreed Then the Polish army will buy another 180 K2 tanks. any of them will be cars in the Polishized version. Furthermore, 61 K2PL vehicles will be created straight in Poland. They'll be taken care of. Bumar-Łabada Mechanical Plant in Gliwice, which are part of the Polish Armed Forces Group. However, to do so, technology transfer is essential. And it was yesterday that representatives of the Gliwice plant and the South Korean company made an agreement that would enable this. Under the agreement, Bumar-Łabada will shortly receive the tools and equipment essential for launching the assembly line in Poland. This will let the production of not only tanks, but besides associated with K2 accompanying vehicles – method safety cars, mobile bridges, engineering vehicles.
– Today, we are taking a crucial step towards the Polishization of the K2 tank – stressed Arkadiusz Bąk, the first Vice president of the Polish Armed Forces Group during the ceremony. – From now on K2PL will actually become PL – he added. Monika Kruczek, president of the Bumaru-Łabada, spoke in a akin tone. – It is an investment not only in equipment, but primarily in competence, cognition and the future of Polish method thought. For our company this task is more than just the production of combat vehicles. This is simply a restoration of the possible of Bumaru-Łabada, which has been the heart of Polish armored production for decades," said Monika Kruczek. On the another hand, a typical of the Korean side praised Polish partners. “Our cooperation strengthens Poland’s defence possible and builds a lasting Polish-Korean industrial partnership, contributing to technological improvement and safety of both countries,” said Jeong Yeob Lee, elder Executive Vice president and manager of the defence strategy department of Hyundai Rotem Company.
K2PL production will start in South Korea. 3 prototype vehicles will be built in the Hyundai factory. Then the full process will be transferred to Poland. The first tank from the production line in Gliwice should exit in 2029.
Compared to the original, vehicles in the Polishized version will benefit Israel Trophy Active Protection System. It will detect incoming anti-tank missiles and neutralise them if essential with peculiar ammunition. This will consequence in an anti-drone strategy that disrupts the work of the drones sent by the enemy and the circular ammunition. K2PL will besides receive stronger armor and a 12.7 mm distant controlled device gun. The tanks will be partially equipped with Polish components. These include navigation, communication, and field management systems.
K2 is 1 of those tanks to change the face of the Polish army. The first contract to get them was signed in 2022. Contract – as well as contract from the summertime of this year – assumed to get 180 vehicles. Most of them have already gone to the soldiers. 16 Pomeranian Mechanized Division uses tanks.
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