Frag Out! Magazine
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A decision was made to acquire two Australian Adelaide missi- le frigates - a modernized variant of the OHP vessels, already known by the Polish sailors. The talks on potential procurement of the Australian vessels began in 2016. They came to an abrupt, scandalous end two years later. One day before President Duda was to visit Australia, Poland resigned from concluding the pre- -negotiated agreement. Resuscitation of the Miecznik program was another iteration of the spectacle, entitled: how to avoid procuring a warship for the Polish Navy. Take two took place after the pre-specified ope- rational requirements were redefined - the attempts began in 2018, and the whole effort was canceled a year later. base platform. They were referred to as OPVs with mine hun- ting capabilities. Czapla („Heron") became the program name for these. We had to wait until 2015 for that procurement to begin when the MoD invited the PGZ Group to discuss and negotiate the details of this program. Nonetheless, the negotiation was short-lived, as the process was canceled in 2016. The formal re- ason stemmed from the necessity to repeat the analysis of the emergence of the „basic national security interest". Unofficially, however, the rumors were suggesting that the SMW shipyard was in fatal shape, financially, hence the decision made by the MoD. Given the above decision, second-hand vessels were an ad hoc measure that could bring the Polish Navy back to life. NAVY