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NATO Material and Fuel Support Bases (Probably under The Territorial Defense Command)

 

? Material – Fuel Support Base (Gardeja),

? Material – Fuel Support Base (Cybowo),

? Material – Fuel Support Base (Puszcza Mariańska),

? Material – Fuel Support Base (Wędrzyn),

? Material – Fuel Support Base (Porażyn).

 

 

Polish Land Forces Equipment and Manpower (in 1 January 2007)

 

We have not yet updated the equipment list for Poland.

 

Tanks      926       

                             128 Leopard 2A4

                              232 PT-91 “Hard”

      586 T-72 M/M-1

 

Armored Fighting Vehicles      1359   

1298 BMP-1 (BWP-1 in polish)

16 BMR-1K Recon vehicles (BWR-1K in polish)

            22 BMR-1S SVATAVA (BWR-1S in polish)

 

Armored cars            510-465            

                  Mostly origin BRDM –2

                  NBC recon vehicles BRDM-2 RkCh

                  command BRDM-2 R-1A

                  modernized 70+ BRDM-2 Mod. 96

                  7+ BRDM-2B Mod. 97

                  3+ (40 pieces to 2006) BRDM-2A Mod. 98

 

Armored personnel carriers     731 (in the year 2000, now may be little less)            

About 300 OT-64 SKOT in specialized versions: command

(SKOT R-2M/AM/R-3M/R-6), recovery (WPT), engineer APC’s

Some number of MTLB in versions command (BW), recovery (WPT), engineer recon (85 pieces of TRI), engineer MORS

Some number of MTLBu in command versions: 1W13, 1W14, 1W15, 1W16,

 1W21-1W25 (MP21-MP25)

 

 

Some BMP-1 KSh (MP31) command APC’s

 

Artillery pieces over 100 mm 1092   

532 2S1 “Gvozdika” 122 mm SP howitzers

111 Mod. 77 “Dana” 152 mm SP howitzers

8 2S7 “Pion” 203 mm SP gun

256 BM21/70 “Grad” 122 mm MRL’s

185 Mortar 120mm

75 Mortar 98mm

58 Spike (presumably long-range version as Poland lists under artillery)

 

Tactical misiles         

                  4 9K79 “Toczka” (SS-21 Scarab) tactical missiles

 

Antitank guided missiles

142 9P133P “Malyutka” (AT-3 Sagger C) on BRDM-2

115 9K111 “Fagot” (AT-4 Spigot)

18 9K113 “Konkurs” (AT-5 Spandarel) – 9P148 version also called BRDM-3

7 9K115 “Metis” (AT-7 Saxhorn)

SAM   

64 9K33 M-2 “Osa-AK”(SA.-8 Gecko)

80 2K12M „Kub-M” (SA.-6 Gainful)

4 9K35M „Striela 10M” (SA.-13)

about 600-700 9K32M „Striela 2M” (SA-7 Grail)

           110 “Grom I” (Polish modification of SA-18) + 311 ordered “Grom II”

 

Air defense guns

About 360-400 2x23mm ZU-23-2 (including about 100 ZU-23-2S with 2x SA-7) 44 ordered ZU-23-2TG (with „Grom II“)

44 SP 4x23mm ZSU-23-4 (modified to ZSU-23-4 MP “Biała” with passive

sensors and “Grom II” missiles

            Maybe a little number of 57 mm S-60 guns

 

Helicopters      152     

 

W-3 Sokół  x 37 (armed and utility)
Mi-2  x 46 (attack/utility)
Mi 24  x 32  (attack)
Mi- 8/17  x 24/13 (armed and utility)

 

Utility tucks 3040 Including 1815 specialized versions for example command

                 1000+ polish Tarpan Honker

                 100-110 Mercedes GW 290,

                 about 80+ IVECO 10.40 and SCAM 50 ambulances

                 Balance UAZ-469

Light (2-3 ton) trucks  

            15165 STAR 660 M-2 (Specialized versions modernized to M-3)

            GAZ-66

ZIŁ-151 (11480 specialized versions) and about 150+ new STAR 944

Medium (4-6 ton) trucks          17498

Mostly  STARS 266, but also there are URALS-375 (11708 of them are

specialized versions) will be replaced by STAR 1466 and modernized STAR 266M

Heavy (10 ton) trucks

790 KRAZ-255B and TATRA 813/815

21+ Jelcz 862 D43

45+ Jelcz 662 fuel tankers  16+ Jelcz 662 D43

Heavy tank transporters          

70 TATRA 813/815 +

about 35 Volvo/Mercedes/Iveco

 

 

Training

 

Communications and IT Training Centre (Zegrze);

Artillery Training Centre (Toruń);

Land Forces Training Centre (Poznań);

Land Forces NCO schools (Poznań, Wrocław, Toruń, Zegrze);

Drivers Training Centres (Grudziąc, Ostróda).

 

End Poland

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