WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland has signed a deal to purchase anti-tank grenade launchers from Sweden’s Saab in a deal price round 6.5 billion zlotys ($1.63 billion), its Defence Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz mentioned on Monday.
This 12 months Poland is spending about 4% of gross home product (GDP) on defence because it seeks to strengthen its armed forces within the face of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
“Poland’s armed forces will… (get) anti-tank grenade launchers produced in Sweden, and we’re allocating about 6.5 billion zlotys for that,” Kosiniak-Kamysz instructed a information convention, including that the weapon had been efficient in Ukraine.
The deal issues the Carl-Gustaf M4 grenade launcher, which is meant to fight all varieties of trendy fight automobiles.
Kosiniak-Kamysz mentioned Poland would obtain a number of thousand grenade launchers and a number of other hundred thousand rounds of ammunition, in addition to the mandatory infrastructure, coaching and different components vital to make use of the weapon.
($1 = 3.9810 zlotys)
(Reporting by Alan Charlish and Karol Badohal; Modifying by Jan Harvey)
