“The FA-50 is in progress. Today, the Armed Forces Agency signed an agreement with Mildat to acquisition ammunition for the deck plot," said Paweł Bejda, Deputy Minister of National Defence. Deliveries will come to an end next year and cover 50,000 pieces of combat ammunition and the same number of exercise ammunition.
The contract signed by Colonel Piotr Paluch, Deputy Head of the Armed Forces Agency with the typical of the Warsaw company Mildat, is worth about PLN 18 million. Thanks to it, Polish air force will receive combat ammunition and training kal. 20 mm to M197 (M61A2 Vulcan) deck plots on FA-50 aircraft. The tender announced in February afraid the acquisition of 50,000 units of combat ammunition and the same number of exercise ammunition.
The signing of the contract for the transportation of ammunition for the FA-50 is another action taken late for the Polish air force. At the end of June, a transportation contract was concluded AIM-9L Sidewinder air-to-air missiles for FA-50 school-fighters. And yesterday at Military Aviation Plant No. 2 in Bydgoszcz Deputy Prime Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz signed an agreement worth $3.8 billion on modernization of all Polish F-16 fighters. This means that 48 "hawks" in version C/D Block 52+ will be upgraded to version V Block 72 between 2030 and 2038.
The FA-50 is simply a light multi-tasking school and conflict aircraft manufactured by South Korean company Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI). In 2022 Poland bought 48 specified machines. The first twelve FA-50GF versions were delivered in 2023. The remaining 36 FA-50PL aircraft are expected to scope Poland by 2028.
– erstwhile we came to the resort, the FA-50 was “without teeth”. The aircraft purchased by our predecessors were not prepared for operational operations, there was no certification to authorize the usage of this aircraft – said Władysław Kosiniak-Kamish in June. Thanks to fresh purchases, armed machines will be able to join the Polish airspace safety on duty.
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