In early February 2022, the Armament Policy Department of the Ministry of Defense of Poland planned to award a contract to the state concern PGZ for the production of the latest Borsuk infantry fighting vehicle this year, after the completion of a series of tests.
At that time, representatives of the Polish Ministry of Defense expected that by 2035 their army would be able to receive 10 battalion sets (588 units) of Borsuk infantry fighting vehicles and finally start abandoning the Soviet BMP-1.
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Now the Polish news portal Defence24 describes a slightly different picture of the launch of Borsuk IFV. Commenting on the publication, a spokesman for the state defense concern PGZ said that his company was ready to supply 1,000 Borsuk infantry fighting vehicles to the Polish army in the next decade. Thus, in the first year of production the enterprise is ready to make one battalion set (58 units of this IFV), and in the following years two battalion sets (116 IFVs) each next year.
But in order to make such theoretical plans come true, the PGZ and the Ministry of Defense of Poland need to agree on the main thing, which is the conditions and financing.
The war in Ukraine in particular showed that it is impossible to cut down on funding in terms of defense, as it’s necessary to do the opposite, namely to spend money generously on long-term defense plans. Yet, the Ministry of Defense of Poland and Polish defense industry haven’t reached a consensus on how many Borsuk IFVs they need: 588 or 1,000 units and, as a result, the necessary budget.
Such “disagreements” push back the dates when the Polish army finally gets modern Borsuk IFVs and be able abandon BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicles.
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