In addition to buildings built for soldiers, equipment and training, we besides invest in the logistics of ammunition storage. We're a strong match for allies, especially Americans. The ammunition of the Polish army will be stored under the same conditions as the funds belonging to the US Army.
A acquainted general late told me that in the early 1990s, erstwhile he began his service, he was amazed to see tens of old men unpacked to the edges with boxes of ammunition for tanks and bewups standing under the cloud, most likely in a method equipment park in Szczecin. possibly they were waiting for the field to be utilized for fire training. I myself remember well the business expedition in July 1997 to Kędzierzyn-Koźl, where the 10th Mixed Artillery Regiment was stationed. Rockets to his BM-21 launcher were stored there in a garrison depot, located in an Oder fork. The flood came, flooded the barracks in town for a fewer twelve centimeters, but it was through the ammunition depot that the flood wave went through. Sentinels mentioned that in the warehouses, rocket boxes were floating under the ceiling, and they were patrolling the area on boats.
Today the Kędzierzyn regiment is ancient history. The defence minister and the staff decided to disfigure it, due to its inconvenience. present besides the view as the 1 from Szczecin from more than 30 years ago seems impossible. We don't keep ammunition like that. There is simply a road, covered by the guarantee, requires appropriate conditions – we must take care of it.
It is worth noting that ours The army has emptied a powerful condition of the warehouses between 2022 and 2023, passing thousands of tons of missiles, in peculiar 122 mm and 125 mm, Ukrainians defending themselves against Russian aggression. And ordered fresh batches in the Natovian calibers, matching the barrels of purchased Abrams, K2, Crabs, K9, as well as the K239 and HIMARS pipes, as well as the Vistula and Narew sets. The time between orders and deliveries is likely to have been utilized by logistics to adequately inventory the property and quick repair of buildings It's very demanding. Now, military investors have started planning to modernise full ammunition depots, and besides to order the construction of fresh facilities, designed to store peculiarly costly combat measures. In selected places, warehouses covered with earth are created. These are peculiar buildings for safe retention of explosives and ammunition (artillery, tank, hand grenades of igniters), with reinforced concrete construction, with dome or vaulted roof, covered with a protective layer of ground. They match the cold war shelters for Su-22 and MiG-29 aircraft, which we know from bases in Minsk Mazowiecki, Powidz and Mirosławec. They are designed to suppress the effects of the interior explosion, preventing its spread to adjacent facilities, thereby ensuring the safety of personnel and limiting the anticipation of chain reaction. These structures are usually made of reinforced concrete, have a curved roof and doors placed only in the front wall. 1 specified shelter-magazine for ammunition costs about PLN 9.5 million gross.
Similar facilities will be built for US troops stationed here under EDCA 2020. You could say that We import this concept from the west, although the construction is handled or will be occupied by national companies. I estimation that about 100 specified objects will be created soon. I'm not going to uncover their location here due to the fact that all soldier will see them with their own eyes sooner or later. I am glad that, in fact, the ammunition will be stored well and safely during the conflict. She will not be threatened by flooding from the sky or by flood tsunamis. It's no longer the time for brick houses and boards, we'll shelter her under a beautiful thick reinforced concrete, in appropriate centrum.