Poland has ordered 32 AgustaWestland AW149 multi-role helicopters for the Polish Army for EUR 1.75 billion.
The Defence Ministry will increase an order for the man-portable Piorun surface-to-air missiles owing to the weapon proving its effectiveness in the Russia-Ukraine war.
Poland's combat engineers will soon receive new pontoon parks that will allow, among other tasks, AMRAMS tanks to cross rivers, the minister of defence announced on social media, on Wednesday.
Andrzej Duda, the Polish president, has said that allies should restock the military equipment which Poland has transferred to Ukraine to help that country fight the Russian invasion.
The defence minister has said that two new combined arms divisions will be formed in Poland and that they will be stationed along the Vistula River, in the country's central region.
Mariusz Blaszczak, the Polish defence minister, inaugurated the first training session of a new volunteer force, comprised of people who have signed up for basic military service, set up in response to Russia's aggression against Ukraine.
Poland's defence minister has said that while modern weaponry is important, it is more important for an army to have a large number of soldiers.
The Polish army will be equipped with several hundred Warmate, Gladius and FlyEye drones this year, the defence minister has announced.
With the blessing of their parents, the 18-year-old identical triplets have joined Poland’s Territorial Defence Forces amid an enlistment surge following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
A Lithuanian investigative website has published for the first time the files of 50 Polish Army soldiers who were captured by the Soviets after returning to their homeland in 1951 and deported to remote regions of the Soviet Union.
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