“We are becoming increasingly self-reliant in defense manufacturing. We are not just purchasing weapons, but bringing production to Poland,” Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defence Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz said during a signing ceremony.
"I promised that the Arms Factory would not be short of work. We keep our word. The Grot is intended to serve the Polish soldier and Polish security," said Paweł Bejda, Secretary of State at the Ministry of National Defense.
Answering the Pentagon’s call to bolster defense industrial base.
"We are intensively expanding our production capacity, increasing the quantitative volume and dynamically acquiring competences and technologies to produce the necessary types of weapons," said Adam Leszkiewicz, president of the management board of PGZ, in a statement.
Poland signed a roughly $290 million deal for 400 Lekki Pojazd Rozpoznawczy Light Reconnaissance Vehicles, as well as two framework agreements to develop new ground vehicles for the future.
"A modernized and well-equipped army is a guarantee of our security which is why we are constantly strengthening [the] Polish Army using the possibilities of the Polish arms industry," said Poland's minister of defense, Mariusz Blaszczak.
The new system, which could cost between $12 and $17 billion, will be almost entirely homegrown - a major impact on Polish industry.
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