Poland; MoD negotiating buy of 250 M1A2 tanks from US

According to Jaroslaw Adamowski in Defense News, Poland’s Defense Ministry is reportedly preparing to buy about 250 M1 Abrams tanks from the United States, two months after it announced plans to buy 24 Turkish Bayraktar TB2 drones. In fact, the Abrams is the third existing design offered in the Wilk program, alongside the Leopard 2 and the South Korean K2. The Wilk program is aimed at selecting a replacement for the T-72/PT-91 MBTs.

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The Polish Armed Forces are reportedly interested in acquiring up to 250 tanks in the M1A2 SEPv3 variant and a further dozen tracked vehicles for training under a deal estimated to be worth between 11 billion zloty (U.S. $2.9 billion) and 19 billion zloty (U.S. $5 billion). The potential acquisition would significantly expand Poland’s modern tank capacities. In the latest additions to its tank fleet, in 2002, the country secured 128 Leopard 2A4 tanks from the German military. In 2013, the Defense Ministry signed a deal to acquire a further 119 A4 and A5 tanks from Germany.

 

Poland has been readying to purchase a new tracked vehicle platform to replace the country’s outdated Soviet-designed T-72 and PT-91 tanks. In 2019, Warsaw declared interest in the European main battle tank project, an initiative spearheaded by a French-German tandem. But to date, these declarations have not been followed by any binding decision.

Poland; MoD negotiating buy of 250 M1A2 tanks from US

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