Poland goes shopping...

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They’re loading up on US and South Korean equipment, it would seem.

The Government of Poland has requested to buy one hundred sixteen (116) M1A1 Abrams Main Battle Tanks; twelve (12) M88A2 HERCULES Combat Recovery Vehicles; eight (8) M1110 Joint Assault Bridges; six (6) M577A3 Command Vehicles; twenty-six (26) M1152A1 High Mobility Multi-purpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWV); twenty-six (26) M1279A1 Joint Light Tactical Vehicles (JLTV); one hundred sixteen (116) M2 .50 caliber machine guns; two hundred thirty-two (232) M240 7.62mm machine guns; six (6) AGT1500 gas turbine engines; thirty thousand nine hundred twenty-eight (30,928) 120mm M865 Target Practice, Cone Stabilized, Discarding Sabot - Tracer (TPCSDS-T) cartridges; twenty thousand eight hundred twenty-three (20,823) 120mm M1002 Target Practice Multipurpose Tracer (TPMP-T) projectiles; sixty thousand (60,000) 120mm M829A4 Armor Piercing, Fin Stabilized, Discarding Sabot-Tracer (APFSDS-T) cartridges; two thousand (2,000) 120mm M829A3 Armor Piercing, Fin Stabilized, Discarding Sabot-Tracer (APFSDS-T) cartridges; fifty thousand (50,000) 120mm M829A2 Armor Piercing, Fin Stabilized, Discarding Sabot-Tracer (APFSDS-T) Cartridges; ten thousand (10,000) 120mm M830A1 High Explosive Anti-Tank (HEAT) TP-T
cartridges; sixty thousand (60,000) 120mm M908 High Explosive Obstacle Reduction-Tracer (HE-OR-T) cartridges; and seventy thousand (70,000) 120mm M1147 High Explosive Advanced Multipurpose Round cartridges. Also included are Forward Repair Systems; Next Generation (NG) Shop Equipment Maintenance Contact (SECM) shelters; communications equipment; GPS receivers; ammunition; Spare and Repair Parts; Special Tools and Test Equipment (STTE); technical manuals and publications; new equipment training; U.S. Government and contractor technical engineering, logistics, and personnel services; and other related elements of logistics and program support. The total estimated program cost is $3.75 billion

https://www.dsca.mil/sites/default/files/mas/Press%20Release%20-%20Poland%2022-71%20CN.pdf

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Those bastards copied my Christmas list to Santa.

I don’t know how these orders usually go, but I think it’s interesting that it’s just not heavy on gear, but recovery and other vehicles along with not just ammunition, but practice ammunition.

I don’t know if the Russians noticed, but I saw that there were some bridging equipment in the order too. I guess you can use that defensively, but it sure seems that bridging equipment is more often used offensively.

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As FMS orders go, that’s a lot of ammo.

4

Are they expecting to get in a war or something ?

5

Gee almost like their neighborhood has gone to shit.

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This is a really good breakdown of what they have on order, and why.

//youtu.be/yrbaAKZfjwg

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So these people can actually pay for their weapons? Good to know…

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When barbarian chomo Russkie dogshit are next door, “epecting to get into a war” is a Day Ending In Y thing.