
By INS Contributors
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia--On July 27, 2022, Polish Minister of Defense Mariusz Blaszczak announced that Warsaw had purchased 980 K2 tanks, 648 K9 self-propelled howitzers and 48 FA-50 fighter jets from South Korea.
The equipment should replace the weapons samples transferred to Kyiv.
Western experts are skeptical about the Polish-South Korean deal.
A former British army officer, defense industry analyst Nicholas Drummond believes that the K2 tank has much lower performance characteristics compared to the Leopard 2 tanks, which Poland planned to purchase from Germany.
Against the backdrop of the difficult situation in Ukraine, Berlin regularly postpones the supply of Leopard 2 to the Polish state, which has already forced Warsaw to resort to acquiring less efficient South Korean hardware.
The analyst also noted that in the event of an armed conflict in Europe, Poland would eventually face problems in the supply chains of equipment manufactured in Asia.
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