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So, we are bringing back the Sturm Tiger? :p Isn't HEP American for HESH?

Shows that the Soviets were into something with the BMP-3's armament ...

Whipping up that force into a Horde Threatening Our Nation's Existence does not pose a problem for propagandists anywhere :) BTW - suchlike are called "PR people" today?

GASP! They are preparing to attack Sankt Peterburg, just like in 1939!!!!11

Makes me feel safe and sheltered, as described in this song&dance number selling an air-to-air missile (no, this is NOT a condom commercial): prances into the sunset mumbling dinga-dinga-dee

Sorry, missed that :) Here I simply do not believe the PiS delivering all that military hardware or raising those units ... I believe the English equivalent of that Polish idiom is "cut off nose to spite face". That's their propaganda at work - they always do the really important things that...

Sorry for the OT - this is supposed to be about NATO and not the Polish political cesspool. PiS has alienated the other parties and nobody will join them in a coalition. True that PiS got the most votes, 7,5M, but that is less than in 2019 - 8M. Also, PiS stewardship managed to boost turnout to...

Too early to say. Polish boards are divided as to the usefulness of what the late Gov't ordered/said it ordered.

Now that Law&Justice (what a misnomer!) got the boot, Poland's military plans will be brought down to earth. The late Govt's plans propaganda were 90% unrealistic, mostly involving the purchase of napkinwaffe using non-existing funds and manned by imaginary personell. Remember, part of the...

And enlarged NATO too. Go Putin!

STURMGESCHUTZ!!!111 :P

The USA chose a name for its new "light tank" - anybody know anything about this programme? The US Army has been developing a repalcement for the M551 since 1970 ...

[SHRUGS] Russia was backing a terrorist state - A-H was in the right.

Neither. It was France by its cheque blanche to Russia.

This Gov't is quite likely to end after the next elections (date TBD - between 15.X and 5.XI), hence the completion of all the anoounced "deals" and "advanced talks" is rather suspect. Poland - like many other countries - is not known for long term planning.

As part of Polish Govt's panic buys/PR efforts/electoral campaign promises/whatever: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/poland-talks-buy-swedish-early-warning-aircraft-minister-says-2023-05-22/

I, for one, welcome our new Lithuanian overlords! You know whence this comes from, right?

As I live 40km from ATP I'll get the shovel and start digging a foxhole ... once the thaw sets in tomorrow, that is :p In other amusing news - a high ranking Polish Police Officer visting Ukraine was gifted with a captured Russian grenade lanucher. He did not report it at the border, he did not...

Poland, pursuing its "3% GDP for defence" goal, the Lower Chamber voted a 2023 budget including 97,4 billion PLN on military spending. That's more or less 22B USD or 20,5B Euro Now this goes to the Senate, split 46:41:13 between Ruling Party, Main Opposition and Plankton*. In the Lower Chamber...

Since 1991 the mission of the Polish Army had been to fight the USSR/Russia. Ukraine is proving that T-72 and T-80 are good enough.