Poland has accomplished negotiations with South Korea on the acquisition of K239 Chunmoo a number of launch rocket techniques (MLRS) developed by Hawnha Protection. The Polish Armed Forces would obtain nearly 300 techniques as such, whereas the Polish defence trade would obtain the switch of expertise agreements, that there’s a rising chance Poland would buy the South Korean system. The cooperation may embody rockets manufacturing, integration of the South Koreanlaunchers with Polish-developed Jelcz autos and Topaz fight handle techniques. Poland will use the Chunmoo along with the US-built HIMARS launchers already in service.
Poland can also be procuring main portions of munitions, together with guided rockets (with a spread of 80 km), in addition to tactical ballistic missiles (a spread of 300 km). Poland is shopping for South Korean a number of launch rocket system after the 2 international locations formalized an official settlement for Poland’s buy of K2 Black Panther predominant battle tanks and K9 Thunder self-propelled howitzers in offers value round $5.7 billion. That implies that the acquisition can be paying homage to K2 MBTs, or K9 howitzers buy. The K239 Chunmoo, in addition to the K9 Thunder, are each manufactured by south korean protection firm Hanwha Protection.
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The K239 Chunmoo is a rocket artillery system developed in 2013 to switch the ageing K136 Kooryong of the South Korean navy. The K239 Chunmoo is a self-propelled a number of rocket launcher (MRL) able to firing a number of completely different guided or unguided artillery rockets.The K239 is able to launching K33 131 mm rockets, apart from 130 mm rockets such because the K30, K37 and K38 used within the present K136 Kooryong rocket artillery system. The launch car relies on a Doosan DST (now Hanwha Protection) K239L 8×8 truck chassis with an armored cab that protects its 3-man crew from small arms hearth and artillery shell splinters in addition to offering NBC safety.
The launcher carries two launch pods that may maintain 4 sorts of rockets/missiles:
- 20 K33 131 mm unguided rockets, beforehand used on the K136 Kooryong, with a spread of 36 km (22 mi) (40 whole).
- Six KM26A2 230 mm rockets modified primarily based on the M26 227 mm unguided DPICM rocket utilized in M270 MLRS autos operated by the South Korean Military, with a spread of 45 km (28 mi) (12 whole).
- Six 239 mm guided rockets with unitary high-explosive (HE) warheads or a whole lot of cluster bombs designed for the K239 Chunmoo with a spread of 80 km (50 mi) (12 whole).
- 4 KTSSM (Korean Tactical Floor-to-Floor Missile) may be launched nearly concurrently from a hard and fast launch pad they usually can journey 120 km (75 mi).
