Poland increases weapons production significantly thanks to unprecedented investments - RP
Date: 2024-01-15 Author: Кирило Загоруйко Categories: WORLD
Polish factories are increasing weapons production several times thanks to unprecedented investments in the defense industry, writes RP.pl.
Even enterprises that have recently undergone modernization are striving to increase their production, since their capacity has no longer met the needs, the publication writes.
So, in two years, the Lucznik factory in Radoml wants to produce 100 thousand rifles per year, tripling the current production volumes. At the factory's factories, the renovation of machine tools is in full swing, the construction of additional workshops has been approved, although the current turnkey plant was launched only ten years ago.
The company Huta Stalowa Wola, which is a manufacturer of heavy artillery, long-range self-propelled howitzers Krab and automatic mortars Rak, only on the eve of the war in Ukraine completed a technological modernization worth tens of millions of zlotys. However, today these investments are insufficient. As the company's executive director Jan Shwedo noted, the company has two years to double production. Thus, the company bought the workshop that once belonged to Huta from a Chinese investor, a new plot of land was also prepared, and the investment is estimated at hundreds of millions of zlotys.
Significant investments are also being made in the Remontowa Shipbuilding shipyards and the PGZ military shipyards, reconstructed after many years of decline. It is at these shipbuilding enterprises that three licensed multi-purpose frigates of the new generation of the Swordfish series will be built worth 15 billion zlotys, and analysts hope that this will stop the collapse of the Polish Navy, which was not so long ago predicted.
In addition, another Polish company, Autosan, which previously produced electric buses, has now begun production of the Waran, the latest multi-purpose armored vehicle with high mobility, suitable for close-in artillery reconnaissance, as well as a versatile transport platform on the battlefield.
Also receiving an investment boost was Nitro-Chem from Bydgoszcz, one of the world's leading TNT producers. According to the company's CEO Dominik Sawicki, the outbreak of war in Ukraine and a sharp increase in demand for explosives forced the Bydgoszcz plant to increase TNT production to its maximum level, and today, he says, the plant produces TNT in three shifts, 24 hours a day.
