Negotiations on Borsuk combat wagons for the Polish army have been going on for months. Paul Bejda, Deputy Minister of National Defence informed on Polsat News in an interview with Michael StelaThey're already in the final stage.
– Badger is actually on the last straight. We are waiting for the final price offer – he said. The sheet with the valuation from the Steel Wola Huta and the Polish Armed Group is to be placed until 10 February.
Badgers will be produced in Poland. large Innovation for the Army
In parallel, negotiations are underway on the provisions of the agreement, which are already being clarified. It'll all go to the lawyer General together. We're prepared at any moment.because the money is secured in the budget – said Bejda.
– We want to sign a contract for more than 100 pieces. We will see how much can be negotiated – he informed. However, he reserved that the framework agreement covers more than a 1000 Badgers and 400 accompanying cars.
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The Deputy Minister stressed that if everything goes as planned, the contract should be signed by the end of February. Prior to its signature, the Armed Forces Agency must agree and its opinion must be given to the lawyer General.
"Borsuk at last straight". Innovative weapons shortly joined Polish troops
As he emphasized, the Polish army is not only waiting for Borsuki, but the issue is besides of large importance for industry. – This is simply a question of the production capacity of the Polish industry. Stalowa Wola Huta needs to get started. As an army, we request quite a few this – he said.
With this contract Poland will get free of the russian scrap. – A combat infantry car Borsuk will replace the already outdated infantry car called BW1 – post-missile, which is in Polish units. I'm not hiding that it went a small bit to Ukraine too, so absolutely the military needs them, Not even in hundreds but thousands of pieces He stressed.
Poland modernizes the army. In the plans of tankers and Orka
Even though the Borsuk army's power is simply a step forward, the military has another backlogs. Last week, the Ministry of defence signed a contract for radio-location missiles to F-35 fighters. However, Poland does not have Tankersthat would let them to refuel in the air. We request at least four.
– I very much regret that the erstwhile Minister of National Defence Antoni Macierewicz he broke up all these talks in 2016 that sought to sign this agreement," recalled the Deputy Minister.
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At the moment, specified a programme is in place in the Benelux countries. There are 10 of these in the pool.
– If we wanted to join this program, which we're besides analyzing, we'd gotta buy 2 of these planes. We are entering this program and we have the ability to refuel in the air – he said that they are besides at the same time emergency and medical aircraftwhich can be utilized for various kinds of missions.
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As he said, negotiations on their acquisition are taking place with more than 1 supplier. "These planes are very much needed by the Polish army, but what will be the way to get them, at the minute everything is on the table," he concluded.
In addition, the budget besides includes secured funds for the acquisition of the Ork submarine. “We would like to sign this year,” he said.
