Juttua Puolan epäsuorantulen hankintaohjelmasta nimeltä REGINA. Puola siirtyy lähivuosina näillä hankinnoilla NATO-yhteensopivaan tykistöön. W-SPH Testit voittanut SOLTAM ATMOS 2000 (Pl. "Kryl")on sijoitettu Puolalaisen kuormurin alustalle. Tätä pidän itsekin lähtökohtaisesti parhaana vaihtoehtona koska meillä suunnitellaan ja osin tehdään (vielä) hyviä maastokuorma-autoja. Puola suunnittelee hankkivansa näitä 170 kpl. Ensimmäiset 24 kpl on tilattu ja valmistuvat tänä vuonna.
Mainittakoon että pyörä-alustaisessa SPH-kilvassa finaalissa oli häviäjänä Nexter Caesar. Syynä lienee se että Nexter ei tarjoa muita lavettivaihtoehtoja kuin omansa (tyypillistä ranskiksille, oma on paras). Caesar lienee myös kalliimpi.
Puola hankkii myös telalavettisia tykkejä joiden kutsumanimi on "Krab". Krabin alusta on Puolalainen telavaunu johon istutetaan AS 90 Braveheart-torni ja aseeksi tulevaisuudessa Rheinmetallin tykki. Järjestelmän paino on 52 tonnia. Krab korvaa 152mm SPH Danat (30 tn.) tulevaisuudessa, suunnitteilla on hankkia näitä 124 kpl.
Ostoslistalla on muutakin kuten raketinheittimiä, ohjuksia, kranaatinheittimiä...
Queen of Battles: Poland’s New Artillery Programs (2014 snapshot)
Sep 04, 2014 20:39 UTC by Defense Industry Daily staff
Kryl
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Poland’s military is modernizing on a number of fronts, and a Western shift in its self-propelled artillery is underway. The country has become a key bulwark within NATO, but its howitzers have used Russian calibers. Among its self-propelled vehicles, its most numerous 2S1 tracked vehicles are 122mm, while its Czech-designed Dana wheeled howitzers are 152mm. Project REGINA is slowly changing that, as the country adopts standard NATO calibers. A combination of local and international design leans heavily on local defense industries for production…
Poland’s Kryl Hybrid
DANA – Afghanistan
This program began in 2011. Poland wanted a light truck-mounted 155mm howitzer that would use locally-designed and built trucks and Polish equipment, but mount a proven gun system from abroad. The finalists were Nexter’s Caesar, and Elbit Systems’ ATMOS 2000. The Israeli firm won, and the resulting machine from Huta Stalowa Wola (HSW) mounts a modified ATMOS on a 6×6 Jelcz-663 truck.
Maximum range with rocket-boosted ammunition is estimated at 41 km. Poland is also said to be looking into
155mm SmArt armor-killing cluster rounds, from Diehl/Rheinmetall’s GIWS (Gesellschaft fur Intelligente Wirksysteme mbH) joint venture, to equip its new 155mm guns.
HSW are currently under contract to deliver 24 Kryl self-propelled howitzers, with 1st delivery planned for 2015. Each division of 24 will have 3 batteries of 8 guns, which can split into 2 platoons of 4 guns each. Note that full divisions will also include a variety of other vehicles for reconnaissance, command and control, ammunition supply, general transport, mobile repair, etc.
Overall, the Polish Army plans to buy about 170 Kryls. These vehicles, and the RAK vehicle-mounted 120mm mortars, will eventually replace Poland’s 250+ legacy 2S1 Gozdzik 122mm tracked self-propelled howitzers. The Kryls may also have a future role in situations that would otherwise call for the 29.25t Dana wheeled howitzer, as Kryl’s deployability in C-130s and on roads is far better than the heavy Krab’s.
Project REGINA: Other Systems
RAK on Marder
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Poland’s artillery modernization has a number of other components, which will operate alongside Kryl in future Polish forces.
Heavy Tracks: The Krab. This is a 52.1t heavy tracked self-propelled 155/52mm howitzer, designed and built by HSW but using a British AS90 Braveheart turret and (in future) a Rheinmetall gun. There are about 8 in service with the 1st Mazurska Brygada Artylerii, of 24 on contract for the initial order. Poland plans to buy about 124 total: 5 artillery regiments worth, plus a few for the training center in Torun. They will replace the 29.25t Dana 152mm wheeled self-propelled howitzers over time.
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