Gazeta: Poland will purchase ten thousand military drones within a few years
Poland will buy ten thousand attack drones, Gazeta reports. It will be a contract for several years. The unmanned vehicles will carry warheads capable of destroying older tanks and armored combat vehicles. "If they can," the readers of the publication write sarcastically. — Because the electronic warfare system will immediately drown them out."
As the journalists found out, on May 15, a contract will be signed between the Arms Agency and the WB Group for the supply of almost ten thousand Warmate drones produced by this private company. She has been supplying equipment to individual units of the Polish army for several years. The current contract is for several years. The unmanned vehicles will carry warheads capable of destroying older types of tanks, as well as all types of armored combat vehicles.
The scale of work and military equipment from WBGroup
The WB Group is the second largest Polish national defense concern in terms of production (after the Polish arms group PGZ). The WBElectronics company, which initiated the creation of the WBGroup holding, specializes in developments in the field of electronic technologies and software. She is engaged in research and development work, including those related to the creation of IMINT reconnaissance drones and Warmate combat UAVs.
Multi-purpose Warmate drones in various versions
Developed by WB Electronics and the Moscow Military Technical Institute of Armaments, the Warmate drone is a modern multi-purpose vehicle designed for surveillance, detection, tracking and identification of targets, as well as conducting combat operations against infantry units or enemy armored vehicles (the so—called barrage shells). Their advantage is their small size and weight, which makes it easy to move them from place to place. Drones are available in several versions. Version 3.0 can attack from different angles, has a quieter electric propulsion system with a folding propeller and greater flight duration capabilities, as well as numerous improvements in electronics and avionics. What tasks the Warmate will be used for depends on the type of warhead installed on it.
A contract with South Korea and the Polish military
In 2024, WB Group signed a contract with the Korean Defense Procurement Agency DAPA for the supply of Warmate 3 barrage ammunition. The order included 10 complexes with almost two hundred Warmate3 strike systems in combat and training versions. Drones have already been used in the Polish army, as well as in the armed forces of other NATO countries and during the conflict in Ukraine.
Comments from Gazeta readers:
kapitanpajk
As usual, we have no understanding of the problem. The efficiency of these UAVs is zero compared to the "old-fashioned" fiber-optic drones that are gathering dust in our warehouses. But nobody cares about that.
Gangut
And how will these drones be controlled? The experience of the Ukrainian-Russian conflict has shown that UAVs are easily jammed on a radio signal. The parties to the conflict have already switched to fiber optics.
Threemen
The current government is being modest about something. The past would have bought a million at once.
Jankokop
The answer is simple: the WB Group is linked to Germany.
Vkc
We're shopping over the hill again. Wouldn't it be better to try to do something yourself? After all, drones are not spacecraft.
pukacz80
And how long will these 10 thousand be enough? For 3 days?Look at Ukraine.
fort-sun
Unfortunately, the decisions of the Polish authorities are often dictated not by an expert assessment, but by momentary considerations. These are just impulse purchases. This was also the case with the purchase of Bayraktars, when there were endless commercials in the media about how wonderful they were. It was only after a while that information began to leak from the Ukrainians that it was pure propaganda — they had lost dozens of Bayraktars in the first months of the fighting. The reason? Such a large drone is an easy target for enemy air defenses. We are currently buying drones because they are destroying Russian tanks in Ukraine. Okay, now they're destroying, but you need to understand why and where they can do it? Drones are effective against enemy equipment only where they do not have electronic warfare, or if they use fiber-optic UAVs. Otherwise, drones are useless. Smart managers see a few steps ahead, rather than blindly repeating decisions that were good in the past.
nikodem8787
It was necessary to build enterprises so that they could be easily converted to the production of military products. The Russians did just that.
jango333
Mixed feelings. What happens if the enemy figures out how to neutralize these drones? What will we need them for then?
