Under six contracts financed from the SAFE Bydgoszcz Electromechanical Plant “Belma” SA in a consortium with another entities, including the Military Institute of Engineering Technology and MindMade, by 2030, will supply the Polish Army with thousands of overhead and anti-tank mines and controlled explosives. The full value of contracts is about PLN 2 billion.
Although the Polish arms manufacture has long offered the Polish Army modern engineering systems, which can halt the opponent, among others, with automated anti-tank mines (i.e. ones that can be deactivated remotely), it only obtained simple overhead and anti-tank mines. Now that's changed. On Friday 29 May, the Armed Forces Agency, as part of the conclusion with national entities of contracts financed from Union SAFE Mechanism, signed with Bydgoszcz Electromechanical Plant ‘Belma’ SA six executive contracts for various types of mines, offered by the company belonging to the Polish Armed Forces Group. The full value of orders is about PLN 2 billion.
Jarzabins, Tulips...
Under the agreement of the highest value, exceeding PLN 1.3 billion, Belma will deliver an undisclosed number of ISM mine cassettes with MN-123 overhead mines by 2030. These mines can be arranged by Kroton systems and Baobab.
A small less, due to the fact that around PLN 700 million, is worth a package of 3 contracts for the supply of controlled explosives systems Jarzobin-S, which the Armed Forces Agency signed with a consortium composed of MindMade sp. z o.o., Bydgoszcz Electromechanical Plant “Belma” SA and Military Institute of Engineering Technology.
As stressed by Deputy Prime Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz at the ceremony of initialling contracts, national defence minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, Jarzabins are sourced for the purposes of the Shield East program. We don't have time to waste. all second, a minute, an hour, all day, a week, a period is the weight of gold. due to the fact that the gold is our security, our families, children, grandchildren, the future of Poland – said the head of the Ministry of Defence, pointing to the urgency of arms purchases. He added that after the mines ordered by the Polish army want to scope another countries as well. “We buy cassettes for Baobab, that is to say, to vehicles of miner, which is our export product, and we will sale them to another countries under the SAFE programme,” Kosiniak-Kamish pointed out.
Within last Two contracts signed today, Belma will supply the Polish Army by 2029 with respective 1000 TM anti-tank mines with a ZN (a value of PLN 51 million) and respective 100 controlled anti-tank and anti-transport explosives (SPPŁW) Tulipan – the value of this contract is about PLN 11 million.
SAFE in a pill
The EU's safety Action For Europe (SAFE) programme was created to strengthen associate States' defence capacity. Poland is its largest beneficiary and will receive EUR 43.7 billion in the form of low-interest loans. The money will be used, among others, to acquisition drones, air defence systems, ammunition or weapons of land troops. The funds are to be spent by 2030 and the debt will be repaid up to 45 years from the date of payment of each tranche. About 90 percent of the funds will go to Polish companies, and the government estimates that the programme will benefit almost 12 1000 Polish companies cooperating with the arms industry.
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