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WARSAW, Poland – Poland has finalized negotiations with South Korea to buy some three hundred K239 Chinmoo multiple rocket launchers, a contract to be signed on Polish Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Mariusz Błaszczak’s stopover in Seoul next week.
“It’s a perfect artillery weapon and, based on our observations of the war in Ukraine, we can obviously see how artillery can generate benefits on the battlefield,” Błaszczak told local news I. PL.
Last May, the minister announced that he had signed a letter of request for the acquisition of approximately 500 M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, or HIMARS, in the United States. However, the latest developments mean that Warsaw understands that it will not be able to buy as many American systems as it had planned in the first place.
“We are aware that we will not get the 500 HIMARS launchers, for which we have sent a letter of application, within a deadline that suits us,” Błaszczak said. “We will divide the HIMARS order into several stages. We are going to have HIMARS and Chunmoo.
The minister said that this plan, South Korea’s first launchers, manufactured through the Hanwha Group, will be delivered to Poland in 2023.
“In addition to those launchers, we will also get a large number of missiles, either precision strike missiles with a distance of up to 70 km and tactical missiles with a diversity of about 300 km,” Błaszczak said.
The price of the planned contract, which will further increase Poland’s dependence on South Korean weapons, was not disclosed. A series of agreements signed in recent months for the acquisition of tanks, howitzers and aircraft have made Seoul the country’s largest defense visitor in Europe.