Polish missiles – production begins

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A contract was signed for the transportation of more than 10,000 rocket missiles to the lobster-K launchers utilized in the Polish Army. Plant producing rockets – joint investment of the WB Group and Korean concern Hanwha Aerospace – will be built in Gorzów Wielkopolski. “We are building something that has always been our ambition – independency in production”, said Deputy Prime Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz.

– We join the Polish company WB Electronics and Korean Hanwha Aerospace – said Deputy Prime Minister Kosiniak-Kamish at the ceremony of signing a contract for transportation to the military of more than 10,000 rocket missiles to lobster-K launchers. – Technology transfer, production license, independency in production become a fact – added the head of the MON. The contract worth about PLN 14 billion assumes that the ammunition of the precise demolition of CGR-080 with a scope of 80 km will be produced in Poland by the company set up for this intent by the WB Group and the Korean company Hanwha Aerospace. Plant to implement the contract will be created in Gorzów Wielkopolski.

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This is the 3rd executive agreement on the lobster-k program. And as the peculiar envoy of the president of the Republic of Korea for strategical economical cooperation, president Kang Hoon-sik's chief of law is of exceptional importance and goes beyond the average export framework. "This is an in-depth cooperation in which our countries will decision to the joint production stage," he said.

The head of the MON pointed out that the common ambition expressed in the conversation with the advanced typical of the president of the Republic of Korea is that it should be the center for selling missiles to the Chunmoo launcher to Europe. This weaponry has already been purchased by Estonia. Romania and Norway may besides do so.

WB Group president Piotr Wojciechowski estimated that signing this agreement was a celebration of the Polish Army, which will have rockets produced in Poland. He explained that there will besides be Koreans working next to Poles who will come here with families. The first deliveries were scheduled for 2030.

The lobster-K, or a colonized version of the K239 Chunmoo rocket system, is 1 of the most crucial programs of modernization of Polish artillery. The rocket launchers purchased in South Korea are mounted on the Polish trucks of Jelcza. They can usage different types of rockets, including ballistics with a scope of about 300 km.

The WB Group is 1 of the largest private companies in Poland operating in the defence sector. It provides Polish troops with communication and combat management systems for Topaz artillery, communication systems for land troops, as well as Unmanned systems, including FlyEye and circulating ammunition (so-called kamikaze drones) Warmate.

Ms Blinkiewicz

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