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The Polish army has been actively replenished with new military equipment in recent years. In particular, large orders were made in Seoul for tanks (180 K2 MBT were purchased) and self-propelled guns (212 K9A1 howitzers were purchased). As stated in the government of the country, the contracted South Korean products will be part of the new, fifth tactical association of the ground forces – the 1st Infantry Division of the Legions named after Marshal Jozef Pilsudski.
The new formation will be based mainly in the Podlaskie Voivodeship next to the 16th Mechanized Division (Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship) already transferred to the borders of the Kaliningrad Region and the 18th md (Mazovian and Lublin Voivodeships) relocated closer to Ukraine.
The new division will consist of 4 combined arms brigades of 4 battalions each. The main locations are closer to the border of Belarus.
- it is noted in the publication Defence24 about the need to saturate the battle formations with artillery.
So, in the neighboring 16th md, the process of reorganizing the 11th art regiment into the 1st art brigade has already begun.
In general, the process of military construction in Poland clearly reflects the anti-Russian vector of the country's foreign policy and indicates that soon the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation will have to face a new, to put it mildly, "inadequate" neighbor.