Poland aims to buy 25 mine-clearing tanks from the United States, the country's Armament Agency said on Thursday, as Warsaw seeks to beef up its armed forces following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Poland plans to spend around 4% of gross domestic product (GDP) on defence this year and the outgoing government of the nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party vowed to double the size of the army.
The Armament Agency said it aimed to buy the tanks under Washington's Foreign Military Sales (FMS) programme, which facilitates defence purchases from U.S. producers.
"Mine-clearing tanks for the Polish Army!" the agency wrote on social media platform X, formerly Twitter. "The purpose of the FMS procedure is to procure 25 M1150 ABV sapper vehicles from the U.S."
The M1150 ABV mine clearing tank is based on the chassis of the Abrams battle tank.
Separately, Northrop Grumman is exploring producing 120 millimetre tank ammunition in Poland as the U.S. ally surges defence production capacity, the company's chief told Reuters on Thursday.
Źródło: TVN24 News in English, Reuters