Damian

We can now confirm, that turret serial numbers, ends with letter MP. This means that M1A2SEPv3's for Polish Army, have a variant of the same armor, as M1A2SEPv3's for US Army, where their serial number, ends with letter M.

Well, Polish MoD can surprise. They just informed that 28 brand new M1A2SEPv3's for Poland, was unloaded in port of Gdynia. These are first two companies from total of 250 ordered. @urbanoid@Markus Becker@sunday@alejandro_@Mighty_Zuk@Sherman@Rick@Stuart Galbraith

No, of course not. Poland produce it's own trucks from Jelcz company. We also procure other wheeled platforms.

Advantage of PzH2000 is heavier armor and isolated propelant charges storage. AFAIK Polish Army want to solve survivability problems of Krab, within Krab 2 with autoloader which also means, that perhaps at least propelant charges will be isolated. But Krab modernization means most likely development of completely new turret system.

Yes, but hydropneumatic suspension makes this easier (not easy, just easier). Of course vehicle would not be amphibious anymore. No, no, no. We are not divesting all wheeled platforms. Army simply decided that tracked SPH is better than wheeled SPH due to survivability, being better platform for a gun, better mobility in difficult terrain, more ammunition inside etc.

Borsuk front armor have interesting design, the geometry is to make it better at amphibious operations, but, there is large cavity in front between external plate and engine compartment. Inside this cavity most likely there is buoyancy element right now. But in theory this cavity is large enough, that, again at least in theory, you could install there a composite armor.

Correct. Concept of 155mm SPH like Ceasar is seen by Polish Artillery Corps as not fit for current and future large scale battlefield with peer adversary. So focus is placed on tracked systems, while wheeled 155mm SPH requirements must be redefined, and they will return to it after 2035.

Egypt is simply upgrading 555 of the oldest M1A1's they have to M1A1SA (M1A1AIMv2) configuration. This will require more than just upgrading thermal sights @Mighty_Zuk. Simply DSCA documents, never list everything included in that specific agreement package.

New artwork from 1st Armored Brigade. @sunday@Markus Becker@Stuart Galbraith@old_goat@urbanoid@alejandro_@Rick@Sherman

Right now it seems that there is perhaps a desire to keep some T-72's and PT-91's to act as OPFOR during excercises.

Both T-72's and 2S1's were in active service. So right now T-72's will be mostly replaced by 116 M1A1FEP's and 250 M1A2SEPv3's + 180 K2's, this also means replacement for PT-91's. 2S1's are mostly replaced by K9A1's, altough of course there are also Krab's that are being procured.

As urbanoid said, inherited from 2S1 and MT-LB, and also improved compared to originals. It is definately cheaper to use these, already avaiable road wheels, suitable for lighter, narrow tracks, for LPG platform. Altough LPG is constantly being unified with Borsuk, so who knows, maybe at some point LPG will be retrofitted with Borsuk running gear.

Ukrainians have often strange opinions about everything, probably depending on the mood. Not to mention they often turned off fire extuinguishing system, to smoke cigarettes inside... this caused additional problems. Krab in general is considered as a bit more advanced than K9A1, due to better fire extuinguishing system, better FCS altough Topaz is retrofitted to our K9A1's as well. Krab also have Obra self defence system etc. On the other hand, K9A1 is definately more affordable, and it's 1 metric ton lighter, and thus slightly more mobile. It is also considered that K9A1 turret geometry is a bit better, because turret is less cramped. Overall both vehicles are comparable, both having pros and cons.

K9's were needed to quickly replace 2S1's that were given to Ukraine. And altough K9 and Krab are extremely similar, they have some differences and both are better in different areas. It is not directly said, but we can assume that K9 is treated as a cheaper, somewhat less advanced, and Krab as more expensive but also more advanced in some domains.

So we have some new contracts. Huta Stalowa Wola, which is main producer of artillery systems, received recently two new contracts. First contract is for 96 AHS Krab howitzers. Interesting thing is that 48 of these will be in standard configuration, and 48 more will be upgraded with things like autoloader, RWS with 12,7mm machine gun, and some other improvements. With 96 AHS Krab howitzers, there are also ordered various support vehicles. In total 4 artillery batalions were ordered for 9 bln PLN. So far HSW secured several contracts to produce around 240 AHS Krab for Polish Armed Forces + finalized contract to produce 54 AHS Krab for Ukrainian Armed Forces. Second major contract is for over 250 support vehicles for 9 K9A1 artillery batalions. This contract is worth 8 bln PLN. Within this contract, HSW also will develop new medium weight ARV based on Krab/K9 chassis, to support artillery units. Also, MoD photos from HSW, shows production of Borsuk IFV hulls. These Borsuk IFV's are being manufactured by HSW on their own funds and risk, before first executive agreement is signed with MoD. So far MoD says that first executive contract for first batch of Borsuk IFV's might be signed next month. And some additional photos MoD released from HSW. These photos present next batch of Rosomak IFV's with ZSSW-30 turret, and it seems more vehicles awaiting integration, and some other systems, like Waran 4x4 in mobile launcher variant for BSP-U Gladius UAV system, Homar-K launcher, and more Krab's being produced. @sunday@alejandro_@old_goat@Markus Becker@urbanoid@Rick@Sherman@Mighty_Zuk@txtree99@Stuart Galbraith