Frag Out! Magazine
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M-21FK Feniks-Z – offers a bit longer range. A few thousand of these have been manufactured for the needs of the Polish Armed Forces. Unfortu- nately, the problems with the French rocket fuel and the disadvantageous contract (with an even more disadvantageous price and with some restrictions) have made the volumes purchased quite small. At present, it has been decided to reduce the rocket dispersion in a salvo, and to improve the accuracy of the dispersed submunitions – at the cost of range. Rockets of such type are to be soon purchased in mass quantities, which is definitely a reasonable step to make. Unfortunately, the above list exhausts the range of products our military industry can offer. But it would be a really good idea for our Armed Forces to start buying Polish solutions in bigger amounts be- cause they are not only relatively inexpensive but also very cost-ef- fective. This concerns mainly mines and DPICM ammo. What will have to be purchased abroad or require foreign know-how is the solution to substitute the RPG-7, to increase the number of ATGM launchers, and to provide us with smart auto-targeting artillery ammunition. The first of these programs requires a complete Polonization of the entire manufacturing process, but the other two – only appropriate arrange- ments to be made for future maintenance and integration purposes. These three programs play a much more significant role to the poten- tial of the Polish Armed Forces than Kruk. Working on DPICM ammu- nition for Krabs, Kryls, and the Homar seems also to be a reasonable idea. Our industry and research institutes are well able to handle it. Modern anti-tank defenses involve striking enemy armored-mech- anized forces across the whole depth of defense using numerous measures. Establishing an out-and-out "system" is costly, of course, but only comprehensive solutions may guarantee the expected ef- fects. There have been some attempts to form such a system here in Poland, but their outcomes taking shape appear sometimes to be quite silly, if only to mention the insufficient quantities of ATGMs and the "anti-tank defenses" at the platoon level, which altogether start resembling the tales of the brave "Panfilov's Men" and the myths of petrol bombs. Some of the seen instances of neglect are all the more outrageous because the Polish military in- dustry is perfectly able to provide some essential solutions; and has been able to do so for many years. But these solutions are usually purchased in small quantities, or the contracts 'proceed' at a snail's pace, just like the research-development-implementation projects taking almost a decade to finish. PHOTO: 10 BKPANC LAND FORCES