Polish gateway for Black Hawks

polska-zbrojna.pl 1 month ago

Proguns Group concluded a fresh contract to supply comprehensive services in the field of sales, maintenance, repair and modernization of UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters on the Polish market. The offer concerns ships adapted to transport, firefighting and rescue tasks which may additionally have specialised operating systems and equipment.

As reported Proguns Group, the agreement concluded with the US Charter Trading corp (CTC) regulates the cooperation between the parties as part of the chopper sales task UH-60 Black Hawk on the Polish marketplace and another markets agreed by both parties. CTC granted the Polish company the exclusive right to represent its interests and advance the sale of Black Hawks and another its goods and services in our country for 5 years. Previously, both entities had a Memorandum of knowing signed in February 2025 for a period of 2 years.

“The fact that CTC has entrusted us with the exclusive right to represent its interests in Poland, we treat it as an expression of trust and recognition,” says Marcin Krajewski, president of Proguns Group. “We believe that in the coming years this cooperation will translate into concrete contracts and will strengthen Proguns Group’s position as a reliable partner for public and commercial institutions in the defence sector,” emphasises Krajewski.

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The UH-60 Black Hawk program includes comprehensive service and modernization services of helicopters, carried out in accordance with global standards. It offers a full scope of MRO activities (maintenance, repair and operations), including inspections, repairs, upgrades and installation of modern on-board systems. In another words, Proguns can bring to Poland and operate utilized Black Hawks via CTC, which specializes in supplying equipment, controlled resources and services to US armed forces and allied countries. The Polish company declares that the services offered by it let to extend the life cycle of helicopters and reduce their operating costs by up to 80-90% compared to the acquisition of a fresh unit.

Currently Proguns has 3 versions of UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters: Transport (UH-60L), Firefighting Configuration (UH-60 Firefighting Configuration), commonly utilized by American and global firefighting and search and rescue services (UH-60 SAR/Special Operations). The company emphasizes that each of these configurations can be further adapted to the circumstantial needs of customers by upgrading avionics, communication systems and another components.

Let us remind that Polish peculiar troops usage 8 S70i Black Hawk helicopters, which are an export variant of UH-60M produced in Poland by PZL Mielec. Black Hawki is besides utilized by Polish police. In May Armed Forces Agency notify the Mielec plant of the cancellation of the public procurement procedure for the transportation of further multi-purpose S-70i support helicopters. The game active the acquisition of 32 Black Hawks for aeromobile troops.

Jakub Zagalski
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