“This agreement represents a shared commitment to advancing battlefield survivability for next-generation armored platforms,” said Tzvi Marmor, Rafael’s executive vice president and head of land and naval systems division, according to a company announcement.
Almost all of that money is tied up in $6.5 billion agreement with South Korea's Hyundai Rotem Company (HRC) for a second deal on tanks and support vehicles.
Knowing when to build on commercial systems and when to develop something new can be the difference between parity and information dominance.
Poland has announced over $16 billion in weapon buys from South Korean firms since 2022. There are a number of ways those deals could be impacted by the uncertainty around South Korea's government.
Hyundai Rotem and the Polish Armaments Agency are currently in talks about which K2 components will be produced by “Polish companies," said Euiseong Lee, defense solutions senior vice president at Hyundai Rotem.