Poland Signs New $6.5 Billion Contract With South Korea for K2 Tanks

Written by Fabio Lucas Carvalho

Published on 02/08/2025 at 18:33

Tanque de batalha principal Hyundai Rotem K2GF Black Panther (Fonte da imagem: Ministério da Defesa da Coreia do Sul)

Uma pessoa reagiu a isso.

In The Midst Of The Largest Military Modernization Effort Since The Cold War, Poland Has Just Signed A New Billion-Dollar Agreement With South Korea. The European Country Bets On Local Manufacturing And Foreign Technology To Strengthen Its Land Defense In The Coming Years.

Poland Took Another Step In Its Military Modernization By Signing A Contract Worth US$ 6.5 Billion With South Korean Hyundai Rotem.

The Agreement Provides For The Purchase Of 180 K2 Black Panther Tanks And 81 Support Vehicles.

The Ceremony Took Place In Gliwice, With The Presence Of Deputy Prime Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz And South Korean Minister Of Defense Ahn Gyu-back. The Supply Of The Vehicles Is Expected To Occur Between 2026 And 2030.

ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW

Major Oil, Gas, and Energy Event Will Take Place in Brazil: Macaé Energy Will Gather Petrobras, Equinor, Prio, Among Other Suppliers and Energy Executives for Business, Networking, and Employment Opportunities

The Technical Agenda and the Fair in the City of Macaé Should Boost Discussions on Investments, Energy Transition, and Development of the Oil, Gas, and Energy Chain in the National...

Paulo Nogueira

Production In Polish Territory

Of The Total Tanks, 116 Will Be The K2GF Version, Produced In South Korea. The Other 64 Are Part Of The K2PL Variant, With Part Of The Manufacturing Transferred To Poland.

The Production Of The First Three K2PL Tanks Will Occur In Asia. After That, Bumar-Łabędy, A Subsidiary Of The State-Owned PGZ, Will Take Over Local Manufacturing.

Kosiniak-Kamysz Highlighted That The New Units Will Come With Significant Improvements. “Production Begins Next Year. Between 2028 And 2030, We Aim To Achieve Large-Scale National Manufacturing,” He Stated.

Reinforcement After The War In Ukraine

The Most Important Aspect Is That This New Contract Is The Second Phase Of Poland’s Plan To Acquire Up To 1,000 K2 Tanks. In 2022, The Country Had Already Closed The First Batch With 180 Units.

The War In Ukraine Accelerated Warsaw’s Plan To Strengthen Its Ground Forces.

For This Reason, Poland Decided To Bet On The South Korean Defense Industry, Known For Its High Production Capacity And Flexibility In Transferring Technology.

With This, Poland Establishes Itself As The Largest European Customer Of South Korean Arms.

0 Comentários

Mais recente

Mais antigos Mais votado

Feedbacks

Visualizar todos comentários

Poland Signs New $6.5 Billion Contract With South Korea for K2 Tanks

In The Midst Of The Largest Military Modernization Effort Since The Cold War, Poland Has Just Signed A New Billion-Dollar Agreement With South Korea. The European Country Bets On Local Manufacturing And Foreign Technology To Strengthen Its Land Defense In The Coming Years.

Major Oil, Gas, and Energy Event Will Take Place in Brazil: Macaé Energy Will Gather Petrobras, Equinor, Prio, Among Other Suppliers and Energy Executives for Business, Networking, and Employment Opportunities

Production In Polish Territory

Reinforcement After The War In Ukraine

At just 14 years old, a boy creates a system without energy, using steel pipes buried in the ground, that irrigates seedlings with moisture from the air, to combat the water scarcity threatening reforestation in northern China.

Where there was only sand and wind at 40 degrees, China built a megacity of 500,000 inhabitants with farms, wineries, and universities in the middle of the desert using melted glacier water from hundreds of kilometers away.

At over 8,800 meters above sea level, the summit of Mount Everest is made up of rocks that originated at the bottom of an ocean about 500 million years ago and were pushed to the highest point on Earth by the collision of tectonic plates.

NASA photographed a nearly perfect square with 3 km sides on Mars, 13 times larger than the Great Pyramid of Giza, but the official explanation is natural erosion; still, no one has explained why the four sides have almost identical lengths.

Expansion of Federal Institutes: 38 new campuses and R$ 200 million for public education; see the cities included.

At over 80° south latitude on Mars, a formation called “Inca City” reveals a network of kilometer-scale ridges that forms an impressive geometric grid visible from space, created by deep fractures and sculpted by ice in one of the most extreme environments on the red planet.

Goodbye expensive retaining wall: builder teaches how to create an ecological structure with recycled tires that holds the soil, reduces costs, and repurposes materials that would go to waste.

Few people know this, but Neil Armstrong, one of the most famous NASA astronauts in history, survived the Korean War after jumping from the plane during his seventh combat mission aboard the USS Essex aircraft carrier of the United States.

The first commercial hydrogen-powered ferry enters operation in the U.S., eliminates the use of diesel, uses fuel cells to generate clean energy on board, and transforms San Francisco Bay into a landmark of the new era of emission-free navigation.

Diving with a camera in Lake Furnas reveals a submerged city with an entire street, almost intact houses, a preserved bridge, a wood stove, a Kombi, and even a bus at the bottom of the largest lake in the Southeast.

In Sweden, a 51-meter tower was built almost entirely of wood, without a concrete structural core and with solar panels integrated into the facade, using CLT and laminated beams to challenge the dominance of steel and concrete in modern buildings.

Lula reveals a masterstroke by Petrobras to undo a deal made by Bolsonaro, which involves the return of an important refinery that currently produces less than half of what was expected and makes Brazil dependent on international diesel.

Poland Signs New $6.5 Billion Contract With South Korea for K2 Tanks

In The Midst Of The Largest Military Modernization Effort Since The Cold War, Poland Has Just Signed A New Billion-Dollar Agreement With South Korea. The European Country Bets On Local Manufacturing And Foreign Technology To Strengthen Its Land Defense In The Coming Years.

Major Oil, Gas, and Energy Event Will Take Place in Brazil: Macaé Energy Will Gather Petrobras, Equinor, Prio, Among Other Suppliers and Energy Executives for Business, Networking, and Employment Opportunities

Production In Polish Territory

Reinforcement After The War In Ukraine

At just 14 years old, a boy creates a system without energy, using steel pipes buried in the ground, that irrigates seedlings with moisture from the air, to combat the water scarcity threatening reforestation in northern China.

Where there was only sand and wind at 40 degrees, China built a megacity of 500,000 inhabitants with farms, wineries, and universities in the middle of the desert using melted glacier water from hundreds of kilometers away.

At over 8,800 meters above sea level, the summit of Mount Everest is made up of rocks that originated at the bottom of an ocean about 500 million years ago and were pushed to the highest point on Earth by the collision of tectonic plates.

NASA photographed a nearly perfect square with 3 km sides on Mars, 13 times larger than the Great Pyramid of Giza, but the official explanation is natural erosion; still, no one has explained why the four sides have almost identical lengths.

Expansion of Federal Institutes: 38 new campuses and R$ 200 million for public education; see the cities included.

At over 80° south latitude on Mars, a formation called “Inca City” reveals a network of kilometer-scale ridges that forms an impressive geometric grid visible from space, created by deep fractures and sculpted by ice in one of the most extreme environments on the red planet.

Goodbye expensive retaining wall: builder teaches how to create an ecological structure with recycled tires that holds the soil, reduces costs, and repurposes materials that would go to waste.

What if the Sun disappeared suddenly? Simulation shows Earth in darkness within minutes, extreme cold, and rapid collapse of life on the planet.

A 2,400-year-old iron foundry has been discovered in Senegal with 100 tons of slag, 35 furnace bases, and signs of nearly eight centuries of continuous metallurgical activity.

Four humans are flying towards the Moon inside the Orion capsule launched by the SLS rocket, and on April 6, Artemis II will disappear behind the far side of the Moon without communication with Earth for nearly an hour.

Worlds covered by water, atmospheres filled with hydrogen, and the possibility of life beyond Earth: ocean planets are rewriting the map of cosmic search and forcing scientists to rethink where to look.

Argentina achieves the unimaginable after more than 110 years and reintroduces the largest native herbivore of South America to the Chaco to restore a lost link in nature.

Few people know this, but Neil Armstrong, one of the most famous NASA astronauts in history, survived the Korean War after jumping from the plane during his seventh combat mission aboard the USS Essex aircraft carrier of the United States.

The first commercial hydrogen-powered ferry enters operation in the U.S., eliminates the use of diesel, uses fuel cells to generate clean energy on board, and transforms San Francisco Bay into a landmark of the new era of emission-free navigation.

Diving with a camera in Lake Furnas reveals a submerged city with an entire street, almost intact houses, a preserved bridge, a wood stove, a Kombi, and even a bus at the bottom of the largest lake in the Southeast.

In Sweden, a 51-meter tower was built almost entirely of wood, without a concrete structural core and with solar panels integrated into the facade, using CLT and laminated beams to challenge the dominance of steel and concrete in modern buildings.

Lula reveals a masterstroke by Petrobras to undo a deal made by Bolsonaro, which involves the return of an important refinery that currently produces less than half of what was expected and makes Brazil dependent on international diesel.