Why is it important that Polinia is buying Korean tanks.
Poland is in talks with South Korea to purchase K2 “Black Panther” tanks, the country's defense minister said Wednesday. During his visit to South Korea, Mariusz Blaszczak said Varsavi a wants to use Seoul's "potential " to help replace Soviet-era equipment still in the Polish army's inventory.
According to a series of tweets from the Polish Ministry of Defense, Poland is looking for "equipment compatible with American ones, and such equipment is manufactured by South Korea". He stressed that Warsaw wants the technology to be transferred and the tanks to be produced in Poland.
Why this decision is important. Poland currently has many tanks in service, including American M1A2 Abrahams, about 200 German Leopard 2s, in various versions, the PT 91 "Twardy", a Polish elaboration of the T 72, and several upgraded T 72s, many of which are been transferred to Ukraine. Why K2 when there are German and American tanks?
- American tanks are very expensive and bulky;
- German tanks are not technologically considered to be at the level of the Korean tank.
- with the purchase of around 500 Korean tanks there are 500 T91s to export, and the first place would be Ukraine
The K2 has much more advanced composite armor, missile interception radar and active defense system. The VIRSS uses special smoke bombs, actually something more, to confuse infrared and laser-guided missiles. It is also lighter and faster.
In short, Poland does not trust Germany and considers its wagons unsuitable and starts to build Korean wagons under license in Europe. Once they were built, nothing forbids their sale to other countries, perhaps politically close to Poland. Among other things, it could be the first Eastern weapon system to be produced in Europe, ready to be followed by advanced Korean and Japanese systems, from missiles to fighters. Meanwhile, the German industry is sinking into its inefficiency.
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