The signed contract for the supply of South Korean K2 tanks will allow Poland to transfer new batches of T-72 and PT-91 MBTs to Ukraine

Poland signs new deal with South Korea for supplies tanks K2, thereby replacing the outdated Soviet-era T-72 and PT-91 vehicles with more modern equipment. The tanks removed from service with the Polish army will go to Ukraine. This is reported by Military Watch Magazine.

Poland has delivered about 300 T-72 and PT-91 tanks to Ukraine since the start of the Russian special operation, including the last transfer of armored vehicles in March of this year. However, the Polish army still has Soviet-era tanks that Ukraine needs. The timing of their transfer to the Ukrainian Armed Forces depends on Warsaw receiving new Korean K2 Black Panther tanks as part of a new deal. The sooner Poland receives the new ones, the sooner it will transfer the old ones to Ukraine to compensate for its losses in equipment.

Following the delivery of a new batch of upgraded T-72s in early March, bringing the expected total to over 300 units, the acceleration of K2 deliveries is expected to facilitate faster deliveries of T-72s and PT-91s to Ukraine.

- writes the magazine.

According to available information, Warsaw has signed an agreement with the South Korean concern Hyundai Rotem for the sale of 180 K2 Black Panther battle tanks, with the first 96 to be delivered by the end of this year. Some of the tanks will be assembled directly in Poland.

The deal will see 63 of the 180 tanks assembled in Poland, along with new tank configurations, technology transfer and full maintenance, repair and overhaul support.

— the publication clarified.

Comments

[Egoza]

The sooner Poland receives new ones, the sooner it will transfer the old ones to Ukraine to compensate for its losses in equipment.

"Here you go, God, what we don't need." Give all the old stuff to Ukraine! The world dump accepts everything!

[B-15]

72 is better than 64.
The only question is - will 404 survive until the moment of receiving this equipment?

[Kravets Vyacheslav]

Of course it won't live to see it. It lived to see Western tanks, missiles, and airplanes, and now it will give up the ghost.

[bukhach]

They don’t go overboard with food if they have nothing to eat, where can they go if they have almost nothing of their own, and what they do have is clearly not enough.

[bukhach]

In light of recent events on the front, tanks are not as relevant for Ukraine as air defense systems or shells, although they also need armor to make up for losses.

[Sotskiy]

...accelerating K2 deliveries will facilitate faster deliveries of T-72 and PT-91 to Ukraine...

Here it is, one of the reasons for the delay in the SVO - the relatively cheap disposal of old equipment and rearmament with new equipment at the expense of the Russian Federation.

[Paranoid62]

Quote: Sovetskiy

re-equipment with new equipment at the expense of the Russian Federation

Please explain why “at the expense of the Russian Federation”?

[Sotskiy]

Quote: Paranoid62

Please explain why “at the expense of the Russian Federation”?

Because it is the Russian Federation that is spending material and human resources on the disposal of NATO’s obsolete equipment for the SVO, or is this not obvious?
At the same time, NATO increases the percentage for the defense of the alliance, updating stocks with new equipment, and the Russian Federation only spends what it has. Isn't that a double benefit for NATO?
As an example, I read here about the delivery of T-62 tanks to the SVO zone...

[Paranoid62]

Quote: Sovetskiy

Because it is the Russian Federation that is spending material and human resources on the disposal of NATO’s obsolete equipment for the SVO, or is this not obvious?

Interesting idea

Along with this equipment, the carriers of the Ukrainian fascist ideology are being disposed of. That is, one of the goals set before the SVO is being fulfilled.

Quote: Sovetskiy

At the same time, NATO is raising the percentage for the alliance’s defense, updating its stocks with new equipment, while the Russian Federation is only spending its existing one.

A war with NATO, if it happens, will be nuclear. And they will hardly need this equipment. IMHO, of course.

[Sotskiy]

Quote: Paranoid62

A war with NATO, if it happens, will be nuclear.

This is a controversial statement.
If we are to believe our talking heads, the war with NATO is already underway with the direct participation of NATO intelligence, special forces, as in the "proxy" version, at the hands of restless neighbors.
And it's not nuclear.

[Mikhail Krivopalov]

The bearers of fascist ideology are primarily at the head of the state, but for some reason not a single missile or shell has been fired at them during the entire time, although the goal of the SVO was declared to be the liberation of the fraternal Ukrainian people from the fascist junta
PS: some people have in their heads the same indignation/joy that in Ukraine people are being caught on the streets to be sent to the front, with the fact that all the soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are bearers of the ideology of fascism

[Paranoid62]

Quote: Mikhail Krivopalov

how come some people have it all in one head

Easy. Watch your hands:

1. Any animal (and a fascist is also an animal) wants, first of all, to live, eat and fuck.
2. Fascists (in the sense of ideology) - in Ukraine now there is an overwhelming majority, the brains of the people there have been washed quite professionally.
3. Nevertheless, not only "everyone" wants to die on LBS.

Hence the busification. It's simple.

[Peter Shah]

Moreover, using the experience of the Russian military, their technical innovations, which no one has seen before, Western engineers are putting these know-how into production at full speed. The West is increasing the number of its troops, and the Russian Federation is decreasing its number, etc.

[tlauicol]

This will be enough for them for a couple of years of war. And they'll also bring in a hundred self-propelled guns.

[Nastia makarova]

let them chase, it won't help anyway

[Kravets Vyacheslav]

And what won't it help with? For the war of attrition that is going on now, this is exactly what is needed.

[Nastia makarova]

There are no soldiers, and there are fewer and fewer

[Mikhail Krivopalov]

Since 2022 (you can follow the articles published on this resource) the constant mantra is that the Ukrainian Armed Forces are about to run out of soldiers

[Wildcat]

On the SUBJECT - while the old contract is being closed (180 units), there is no new contract yet, they have been signing since May. They plan to sign again for 180 units: 60 next year, the rest - within 5 years, the last ones will be of Polish assembly (for themselves and, possibly, for sale).
It is unclear where the remaining 640 pieces of the planned 1000 pieces are.
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