"Our goal is for Poland to be among the top three NATO countries in terms of operational capabilities," said Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, Poland’s Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of National Defense.
Almost all of that money is tied up in $6.5 billion agreement with South Korea's Hyundai Rotem Company (HRC) for a second deal on tanks and support vehicles.
The initial command and control gateway to earn a continuous Authority to Operate is changing multi-domain operations.
Denmark, Germany and the United Kingdom are all countries Northrop is pitching, or plans to pitch, on its Integrated Battle Command System.
"We are intensively expanding our production capacity, increasing the quantitative volume and dynamically acquiring competences and technologies to produce the necessary types of weapons," said Adam Leszkiewicz, president of the management board of PGZ, in a statement.
Eurofighter is chiefly targeting four export campaigns to dramatically increase production long term: Austria, Poland, Turkey and Saudi Arabia.
The changes, one official said, were influenced by rapid developments in technology, as well as the war in Ukraine.
Michigan’s defense ecosystem and expertise makes it a special asset for production.
Pawel Beja, Poland’s deputy minister of national defense, suggested the decision related to a reexamination of priorities in part prompted by the war in Ukraine.
The plan from Belgium to acquire hundreds of MANPADS comes at time when Europe is investing heavily in rearmament initiatives and urgent efforts to shore up its defenses.
Europe has entered a period of high and increasing military spending, “which is likely to continue for the foreseeable future," Lorenzo Scarazzato, a researcher at SIPRI’s Military Expenditure and Arms Productions Program, told Breaking Defense.
“In 2024, we signed a second agreement for 72 Homar-K [Chunmoo] systems […]. This is the first stage of transferring the production technology of Chunmoo launchers to Poland,” Secretary of State at Poland’s Ministry of National Defense Paweł Bejda said at the ceremony.
Consolidate network monitoring, performance management, and fault isolation into a single, comprehensive solution.
"The next priority for production is Europe," Lockheed's Tim Cahill told reporters. "I would say the Middle East is the next area of direct priority and interest, both on the part of the countries and the part for us to produce."
"With this decision, we are sending a clear message: our countries are prepared and can use every necessary measure to defend our territory and freedom," the joint statement reads.
“Poland’s history makes it very clear why they are concerned that the people they align with, and the people they rely on for protection from Russia, will abandon them,” Jon Wolfsthal, a former US government official now with the Federation of American Scientists, told Breaking Defense.
The deal, which covers eight AH-64Ds, will serve as a capability bridge until the first of 96 newly-bought Apaches arrive starting in 2028.