How do I get to the parade?

A full of 1.7 1000 soldiers from all types of armed forces as well as allied armies will participate in the pedestrian parade. The most of these will be represented by France and the United States and will form 88 flag posts. Next, the Wisłostrada will take 252 vehicles – motorcycles, quads, long-range reconnaissance vehicles, MRAPs, Langust rocket launchers, HIMARS, Chunmoo, Krab and K9, Cancer mortars, Rosomak armoured transporters, besides with an unmanned ZSSW-30 tower, Leopard 2PL tanks, K2, Unmanned search and impact strategy GladiusEven Patriot launchers. And there will be no shortage of debits. On 15 August Warsaw Wisłostrada will pass Abrams SEPv3 tanks and light reconnaissance vehicles of Legwan. Guests of the parade will besides be able to familiarize themselves with prototypes of equipment ordered but not yet implemented in the Polish Army. They'll be there. Badger infantry wagons and light armored disc transporters tick. besides at this phase of the event there will be no shortage of allies – Americans will present Abrams M1A2 tanks and Bradley's fighting infantry wagons, British reconnaissance vehicles Jakal and Coyote, and Romanians will present Gepard anti-aircraft guns.

Sea Parade

This year, for the first time, the Navy will be active on specified a large scale. Representatives of specified armed forces will be present not only in the Warsaw Wisłostrad, but besides in the Baltic. There, at 12 p.m. a parade of almost 20 ships. It will be the first to sail the Eagle Orp, then to see the Orp fregates of Gen. T. Kościuszko and Gen. K. Pulaski. Min ORP destroyers ‘Albatros’ and ORP ‘Meva’, ORP rescue units ‘Lech’ and ORP ‘Piast’, ORP ‘Zbyszko’, ORP ‘Maćko’, orP submarine corvette ‘Kashub’, ORP transport-min ship ‘Lublin’, 2 ORP trawlers ‘Necko’ and ORP ‘Mami’, as well as 2 ORP hydrographic units ‘Arctowski’ and ORP ‘Heelius’. The group is besides to be joined by a pair of radio-electronic designation ships – ORP “Hydrograph” and ORP “Navigator”. In the air the helicopters of the Naval Air Brigade and the aircraft of early informing – Saab 340 AEW will be presented. All units will sail along the Hel Peninsula, and the parade finals will take place at the tallness of Hel. Each of its stages will besides be possible to see viewers admiring the parade in Warsaw. All due to 19 telebs set up close Wisłostrada.

How do you decision around town and scope the parade?

While the spectators of the sea parade will have large freedom to look at it, the situation in the capital will become more complicated, as the organisation of specified a large undertaking will require restrictions on movement.

On Thursday at 4 pm, Wisłostrada will be closed, from Skłodowska-Curie Bridge to Gagarina Street. The connections to Wisłostrada will not include the AK way and the Grot-Rowecki Bridge, the Solidarity Avenue and the Silesia-Dąbrowski Bridge, as well as the Poniatowski Bridge. From Czerniakowska Street, drivers will only go to the Łazienkowska way towards the centre or to the Łazienkowski Bridge.

On Friday at 11.30 a.m., traffic on the bridges of Gdańsk and Śląsko-Dąbrowski will be completely halted, and at 11.00 a.m. a closed footbridge connecting Karowa and Okrzei streets. The sharpens will apply until Friday at 4 p.m.

– We encourage everyone who wants to watch the parade to come to the place by public transport, and the cars have left as far distant from the place of the event – says Tomasz Mencina, deputy president of Warsaw. He besides points out that the best place to watch the march is close Fontann Park.

Polish Army Festival – celebrations all over the country

Of course, the parade and parade are not the only elements of the celebrations of the Polish Army. This evening at the Military Cemetery in Powązki there will be a solemn cap and a memorial appeal, another specified event will take place in Ossów at 9 a.m. On Friday, the celebrations of the feast will begin at 8:00 a.m. in the intention of the homeland and soldiers to be celebrated in the Polish Army Department. At 10 a.m. before the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier there will be a solemn change of watch. On that day, the Polish Military Museum, located in the Warsaw Citadel, is besides invited to the military picnic. akin events will take place throughout the country. “I encourage anyone who meets a soldier that day to come to him and say, “Thank you for your service”, says Cezary Tomczyk, Deputy Minister of National Defence.