Poland receives first high-mobility vehicles
Poland’s air cavalry and airborne brigades will soon be operating new high-mobility vehicles, after the country’s MoD took delivery of the first batch of the platforms.
The first batch of 15 light, high-mobility vehicles was delivered to the Polish Army on 15 January, with a handover ceremony at the base of the 16th Airborne Battalion in Krakow, which is a unit of the country’s 6th Airborne Brigade.
The contract for the new vehicles was signed in December 2018 between the MoD and a consortium of local companies: Auto Podlasie, Auto Special Modlniczka, Hibneryt and Kafar Bartlomiej Sztukiert.
The agreement, which
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