Poland’s authorities has introduced the signing of a deal to purchase the Ottokar Brzoza tank destroyer for the nation’s armed forces. The contract was signed by the Polish Armaments Company and the PGZ-OTTOKAR consortium, which incorporates Huta Stalowa Wola, Mesko and Wojskowe Zak?ady Elektroniczne. As well as, such an settlement covers the whole cycle from manufacturing to supply and additional modernization of weapons. The primary prototypes will likely be prepared subsequent yr. After signing the contract, Polish Protection Minister Mariusz B?aszczak emphasised that the primary prototypes of tank destroyers will likely be prepared subsequent yr and can go to the 14th Anti-Tank Artillery Regiment stationed within the Suwa?ki Hole space close to Russia’s Kaliningrad area.
Ottokar-Brzoza programme, aimed toward acquisition of a brand new tank destroyer for the Polish army, has simply entered one other part. The Polish Ministry of Defence goes to accumulate tank destroyers geared up with anti-tank guided missiles that would offer the platform in query with a capability to neutralize the threats past the road of sight. As a result of new weapons, the items of the Polish military will likely be ready for the realities of the fashionable fight surroundings. As well as, he famous that the battle in Ukraine was an element within the improvement of the Ottokar Brzoza program and led to the acceleration of the re-equipment of the Polish military with anti-tank weapons. The Ottokar Brzoza program was introduced in 2019.
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The Ottokar-Brzoza tank destroyers will likely be produced by a consortium of Polish state-owned arms contractors, led by the Polish Armaments Group (PGZ). The tank hunters will likely be geared up with UK-made Brimstone anti-tank guided missiles. 9 corporations of the Polish Armaments Group (PGZ) have concluded an settlement with MBDA UK concerning co-operation within the tank destroyer section. The settlement will enable for the design and manufacturing of this class automobiles with the usage of MBDA UK Brimstone anti-tank guided missiles. Brimstone is a floor or air-launched floor assault missile developed by MBDA UK for Britain’s Royal Air Power. It was initially supposed for “fire-and-forget” use towards mass formations of enemy armour, utilizing a millimetre wave (mmW) energetic radar homing seeker to make sure accuracy even towards shifting targets.
Implementation of the Ottokar-Brzoza programme, the codename of which is derived from the title of the founding father of the artillery factor of the Polish Legions, Brig. normal Ottokar Brzoza-Brzezina, is to make sure a qualitative leap for the Polish tank-destroyer items. It’s a basis that may very well be used to revive the 14th Anti-Tank Artillery Regiment in Suwa?ki, that might be based on the present 14th Squadron. The above unit continues to be working the out of date 9P133 automobiles with Malyutka launchers utilizing the BRDM-2 platform as the bottom automobile. It could undoubtedly be troublesome to think about institution of a brand new unit with out new gear being offered as reintroduction of the 9P133 platforms that had been withdrawn earlier can be removed from being rational.
