Poland ordered hundreds of HIMARS rocket launcher, more than the US. How will they use them? 

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NATO: Poland tell us why did you buy so many weapons. What are you preparing for? Poland: For victory.

Europe should learn from Poland and start investing more in their own defences

Please, don't forget, that Poland signed a framework contract, a real number of launchers will be certainly smaller. Rockets will be locally produced, this plan was also expressed. Anyway, the decision is right, it should be also a deterrent to a potential attack from the East. Poland is also building an early warning sytem, sattelite and aerial, the control and surveillance sytem, short range (codename "Gladius") is also being developed. Up till now, many haven't understood the way of war that is being waged in Ukraine! This country doesn't want to be under the Russian influence, some Westerners are ignorant of that. Polish tragic history shouldn't be repeated!

LM: how many HIMARS do you want? Poland: Yes.

Jesus, almost 500 HIMARS? That's insane. Poland going all out. Respect from the US.

Vladimir Putin is the BEST salesman that Lockheed Martin ever had!

Damn Poland really making sure it never leaves the map again

There are several gaps in this material when it comes to foreign purchases of reconnaissance systems for the Polish Army: * From October 2022, it will lease the MQ-9A Reaper unmanned reconnaissance system until the ordered MQ-9B Reapers are delivered. * On December 27, 2022, an agreement was concluded with Airbus Defense and Space for the delivery of 2 observation satellites with a receiving station in Poland, and from this year, access to the resources of the currently operating Pleiades Neo satellite constellation was obtained. * On July 25, 2023, two Saab 340 AEW&C early warning and command aircraft were purchased from Sweden with delivery in 2023-2025. * In September 2023, a contract was signed with ICEYE to provide a constellation of micro radar satellites with a stationary and mobile ground station for the National Reconnaissance Satellite System.

The Polish-Chinese border on the Ural mountains is one step closer.

They wont use them. Its for defense. I know its hard to understand but Poland is the first country in Europe that starts to build a somewhat normal sized army. Its normal to have several hundred thousand man under weapons with thousands of tanks, Apc's and artillery systems. Otherwise you cant defend yourself

Before the war, nobody knew about HIMARS, now everyone knows about HIMARS

Such huge numbers may be an equivalent for lack of tactical nuclear weapons. Imagine a single salve from 300 or so units, and each one delivering 600 kg TNT equivalent and you have something arround 2kT tactical nuke equivalent which destructive power can be precisely delivered and disperced which makes strike even more effective from tactical point of view. And as opposed to nuclear weapons you can use such power without worlds contempt and geopolitical consequences.

HELLO FROM POLAND 🇵🇱 NEVER AGAIN!

Poland knows from its own history to take this seriously, and they sure are.

Poland is NOT messing around! They're going to be the main stalwart against future Russian aggression.

I applaud Poland for doing this. They have been thru the ringer so many times they deserve to be secure!!!

How many HIMARS you need? Poland : Yes

The Polish know what's coming (possibly) and they want to be ready. While I disagree with some of Poland´s stances on several issues, I have massive respect for their awareness and preparations.

Big respect from 🇱🇹 to 🇵🇱

Ah the little European texas

Poland is determined not to get steamrolled a second time.

The answer why is rather straight forward. Poland has weak air force, which is a main force to be reckon with for the US and other Eu Nato countries. Thus strong artilery with a various different effectors (from 122mm to 500ish mm) will serve that purpose. Reason two, one day of war will cost more than all that weaponry including the ammo.

The Polish know better...their tired of being everybody elses marching ground

Ukraine - we stopped the entire Russian army with 18 of these. Poland - we’d like to order 486

"How is Poland going to use these hundreds of launchers?" By deleting grid squares en masse.

Russia doesn’t need to worry about Article 5 if they attack Poland. Poland will handle it themselves. 😂

506?!? Holy fucking shit Poland...

Poland will be one heck of a fighting force

There are couple of reasons for Poland to purchase 500 HIMARS (+288 K239): 1. Poland is expanding the active personnel (peace time) in the Army from 140k to 300k - so more artillery units are needed (also getting rid of old soviet times systems, this also applies to SPG's. that's why Poland decided to buy over 600 of S. Korean K9's despite producing AHS Krab. As army wants to quickly get rid of old soviet time systems like 2s1's and Vz. 77 Dana) 2. Restructuring of Army artillery units in Polish Army. So smaller/lower level units will have their own attached artillery support 3. Reserve in case of war. As the War in UA shows NATO may be unable to quickly deliver large quantities of complex equipment. So having Your own reserve of not only spare parts but also complete systems is prudent 4. Taking off some of the burden of "direct/indirect" fire support from the Air Force. Leaving F16 and F35's to more important missions, while newly acquired F/A-50PL's will take some of the easier ground support missions As for capability to find and designate targets, if we bypass the fact that Poland IS NATO, so it can use support on all platforms at NATO disposal: 1. Poland purchased Optical recon satellites from France/Airbus 2. Polish MoD signed a deal for satellite recon from SAR satellites from ICEYE (The deal for it was signed between Polish Company WB Electronics and ICEYE during MSPO 2023) 3. Polish MoD has a active contract for Satellite recon with Italian company for couple of years now 4. Polish MoD signed a contract for Saab 340 AEW&C, which is a stopgap before "Płomykówka" program will deliver target platform for AEW&C. As a matter of fact two companies that offer such aircraft got very active lately in Poland. Boeing - Boeing 737 AEW&C aka E-8 Wedgetail and Northrop Grumman - E2D Boeing is active because other programs also like: -96 AH-64E purchase for Polish Army. -"Rybitwa" program that is ongoing - for maritime patrol and reconnaissance aircraft (Boeing will try to offer P-8 most probably), -"Karkonosze" program - for MRTT aircraft (Boeing will try to offer some variant of KC-46 most probably), -"Drop" program - for heavy airlift craft to supplement/replace old C-130E operated by Polish Air Force (as stopgap Poland purchased 5 used C-130H from US) -Polish MoD and Gov. mentioned that is interested at purchasing also 2-4 squadrons of Air superiority fighters. Boeing is promoting F-15EX -Polish Army is still reporting need for purchase of additional transport helicopters. Polish PM mentioned purchasing more AW-101 but some circles in the MoD push for CH-47's. And there is also possibility that the MoD will decide to buy two types just like they did with MRLS (HIMARS + K239), medium helicopters (AW149 and S70i International Blackhawk) Tanks (M1A2SEPv3 and K2's) ATGM's (Spike and Javelin) and so on.....

Wow. Poland is not joking around. They are on the fast track to becoming a really tough regional power.

It's probably to knock out Kaliningrad bases and other infrastructure instantly in the case of a war.

Doesn’t really matter because the real battle is here in the comments sections.

Poland, the new Texas of Europe.

Ukraine has 20 times less, and we can see the results. 486 is the equivalent of a nuclear deterrent.

In a tactical sense, the deployment is sound. HIMARS and K239 units are positioned at a standoff distance, outside the reach of Russian counter-battery systems. Their precision strike capability allows them to effectively neutralize enemy artillery. This strategic placement affords a layer of protection for the K9 and Krab howitzers, enabling them to engage targets with a lower risk from retaliatory fire. It's a smart use of combined arms, maximizing the strengths of each system to maintain operational superiority. The howitzers are poised to take on regular targets effectively

Poland gonna make it rain with all that rocket artillery. Using that you can move more vulnerable artillery forward and cover them while they hit targets on front lines or right behind it.

Then the winged himars arrived. Coming down the mountainside. 🎶🎶

America: so you can reload… Poland: reloading is too slow. Single use himars is the way to go.

I would say that three different reasons to have that many launchers. 1) In Russian surprise attack HIMARs would be high value targets and enemy would try to destroy as many of those in the initial missile barrage so there's need to make sure there's enough left. 2) Having entire front line covered with enough launchers to immediately respond to high value opportunity. 3) Dealing with massed enemy artillery from a platform that can hit entire enemy battery and move away before response.

Having more missile launchers than the US is one thing: nobody is attacking the US mainland, and there is only so many systems you can, or might want, to fly to a war zone. But having more than Russia and China, *in absolute numbers*, is bonkers.

It seems to me that Poland remembers ww2 and the soviet occupation, and is saying " never again ". Too bad the rest of Europe has amnesia.

Poland better have one heck of a stockpile of missiles if they're getting that many launchers. Which seems like a great idea when you put them together with u.s. satellite and reconnaissance capabilities.

I imagine it must have went something like this: Poland: Can I haz some HIMARSs, pliz? Lockheed Martin: How many? Poland: Yes. Lockheed Martin: WTF? Poland: OK, make it 500. Lockheed Martin: Hahahah Poland: [pulls out a pen] Lockheed Martin: Wait, you are fucking serious?

At this point, they might as well set up a factory in Poland

Poland will NOT be caught off guard again.

"Flaming arrows shall be shot over the face of the earth, and none shall miss their mark." . . . "HIMARS"? (Humm..) OK then! That seems to fit the ticket.

Part of the deal is planned to be missile production. It may seem silly - but these launchers are meant to be in each of planned six divisions in significant numbers, ~80 per division + some held in separate units at higher level (these are likely to have a bulk of ballistic missiles). Technically the plan is that each division will be able to fight as more/less self contained army having it's own guided MRLS and attack helicopters, tanks, tube artillery and logistics. To that end - numbers actually add up. They are not meant to all fire at the same time, they will be used as direct support doing reactive fire against high value targets and ensuring counter battery fire at long range - i.e. Missiles flying at convoys crossing the border. Basically the point is to have these flying from first hours of conflict a sort of "fck them up right from the start, make the earth boil underneath their feet" approach. These are planned to be used with gladius system which is basically drones with 100 km range for target acquisition linked through fire control system - so drones flying and tagging targets for each launcher. It was deemed necessary after seeing Russian conduct in occupied towns, the idea being to maintain pressure with fire right from the start, giving own forces time to assume good positions and shift as required to maintain stiff defense, not letting towns to be captured in the first place. It was also deemed required to prevent "limited war" where enemy takes a piece of land, declares ownership and demands peace talks threatening nukes - because this approach leads straight towards total war, as losses of attacker against would mount right after border is crossed - naturally forcing any would be attacker to first hunt down all such launchers before actually setting foot across the border, most likely requiring months of bombing to whittle number of launchers enough for ground invasion to roll out.

Poland needs them and the Korean ones much more than US!

About the target sellection thing: you don't really need that much inteligence if your strategy is just to level anything of millitary worth in Kaliningrad (which is something you can easilly learn) to relieve your allies further north. Polish might be megalomaniac but they are not entirely stupid.

Strong fences make good neighbours. Poland has a history of being attacked, alternatively from the German side and the Russian side. Poland will have a good dissuasive capacity.

That is a situation, when Poland will stand a therapist to any enemy country. Therapy name: himars massage.

Wow! Poland strongest ground military in Europe. I hope other European nations catch up.

What a impressive number of MRLs per million people. As a South Korean, our country cannot exceed that of Poland. But, how about compare number of Self Propelled Howitzer per million people?

1000 km range rockets and Poland gonna create a devensive umrella over central-eastern europe. For us and our neighbors. Slava.

a HIMARS behind every tree

Poland just wants to make sure history doesn't repeat again and I don't blame them.

Russia has totally shit their own bed. Poland will soon be one of the most potent militaries in Europe. Good for you Poland. I just wish we could spend all that money on things that better the lives of all citizens.

Poland is: The most militarized country in UE (army), being at the same time Most demilitarized country in UE (2.5 guns per 100 people)

Having extra capacity could mean firing a volley of dummy missiles to draw down defensive missiles of your enemy & then firing the real thing later, you could even fire multiple volleys of dummies so your enemy never knows what is real & what is fake...

How we'll use them? As a polish person i can tell you 1 thing.. We'll send them directly into Moscow if they attack us!

"You're tearing me apart Lisa! Oh hi mars."

Countries like the USA, France, the UK, etc. count on using precision-guided bombs, and cruise missiles since they have a strong Air Force. Countries like Ukraine and Poland don't have such a powerful Air Force, so they're planning on using MLRS like the HIMARS in the same role as cruise missiles and precision-guided bombs. It's just as accurate and deadly, but arguably cheaper in the long run

A little more than 6,000 missiles, with 6 per salvo, is about 1,000 salvos. Over 500 launchers, that’s 2 salvo per launcher. Like 1 day supply of missiles. 50 launchers would be sufficient, 500 is madness.

Poland: *Sees America ordering 500 HIMARS "I will have whatever he is having."

when you have Putin for a near neighbor, you like HIMARS

A strong Poland is good for the world.

Well, Poland was one of a few countries that warned many times Eastern countries, that Russia is dangerous. Now, they know that in practice NATO will not help that much and they have to count on themselves. As Poland was under russian occupation for many years, they do not want history to repeat itself... and old NATO documents that Poland should defend and wait for NATO on the Vistula River are no longer valid. They want to defend every inch. Bucha will not repeat in Poland. GO POLAND!

Poland is bulding own observation satelite constalation. First of all Poland buying those lunchers, because don't want to lead war in contact and is flat country without natural borders, where speed is a kee so want to make maneuver by artillery. But also buying so many Himars lunchers has multiple other purposes. One of them is realisation of "Kaliningrad variant" (Polish equivalent of the Seoul variant), which means, that Poland want to have capabilities to punish Russia for tactical nuclear strike with conwentional strike with power of nuke. So if Russia will use nuke first time, Poland will annihilate Kaliningrad. Meybe in the futere Poland will add "Petersburg varian" and "Moscow variant". Poland also want to have capability, to help other countries in the region.

I'm sure I'm not the only person who thought that it was a typo, the first time they read that Poland had made a request for 486 systems. I assumed they meant 86.

As a Polish I can say, that the biggest reason for such shopping is russian aggression on continent. If we will equip our every brigade with rocket artillery regiment, our defensive abbilities will be higher than ever. We also create our own new fighting vehicles and buy tanks and artillery from our allies. Put yourself on the place of russian army planist, how can you create a invasion plan on Poland, while we will get in next years around ~1500 new tanks (Abrams, K2, Leopards already in our army), ~600 rocket artillery systems, another ~500 155mm artillery systems, new highly advanced ~1500 infantry fighting vehicles? It is madness, and every russian general will have to face a quesiton - how can you prepare an invasion plan, while Polish behave so unexpected? Also such huge number of artillery systems is because we do not have strong air force as US. In reality, our rocket systems will perform a lot of tasks, that are usually assigned to air force in countries like US, UK or France. In Poland we have huge army tradition in case of artillery systems, we have a lot of training grounds, experiences staff. In our situation it is easier to create space for few hundreds artillery systems, than next figher and strike wings. We already have problems with maintaining our own aif force, that's why we will get new high-tech MLRS to reduce the load of tasks in air force.

It might be because of the recent change in polish mentality on defending itself. Polish authorities came to conclusion that every possible inch of territory must be held if possible, so Bucha like massacres don't happen. For that massive firepower is needed to saturate the enemy.

we have AWACS now

6:04 I assume this is an error, should be trillion for GDP numbers not billion. Great video btw.

The gdp of poland is roughly 700 billion or 0.7 trillion NOT 0.7 billion

Poland has been the victim and subjected to others for hundreds of years, all the way until the "Warsaw Pact" ended with Soviet Russia. It seems they are declaring their sovereignty for once and for all, good. Lech Wałęsa must be proud :).

I wouldn’t mess with Poland in a couple years. Between the F-35s, Korean tanks, and their missile systems, they’ll be almost untouchable especially when they add Ukrainian drone tech.

Guess they think HIMARS is good invesment. Hundreds of units of HIMARS will be lot of firepower. Lot of different kind of missiles as well. Enemy will have face storm of iron and fire.

You don't need too many reloads per system, if you have enough systems to blow apart 90% of important enemy assets or supply points within the first two or three salvos. I think the idea is if the enemy tries to blitz you with everything, you have the capacity to counter the entire force all at once in just a few days, knocking out all key systems in the attack, while if they do a slow drawn out fight... you can quickly force through the front before they can respond and counter your advance. Imagine you have two teams of five people with rifles shooting eachother. Now imagine one team gets twenty extra guys, but those guys only have two or three mags to spare each. Those extra numbers are just going to overwelm the other side in very short order regardless.

"How will they pay for them" is the real question.

It was just announced that the ammo factory in my hometown will be producing missiles for both the HIMARS as well as K239.

Long range + Precise/Accurate artillery is a game changer in land warfare. Simply Poland knows the play book.

We already have two planes with radars and the first two satellites out of six.

Poland is going to be producing HIMARS missiles ;)

This looks like a strong conventional strategic deterrent in lieu of nuclear, biological, chemical, biological radiological weapons. Taken from that perspective, it could be considered a viable alternative.

In addition, the Polish Armed Forces purchased two air surveillance aircraft from SAAB, and another two in the near future has been also contracted. Satellite imaging is already added from polish military sattelites, and are expanding, as well as balloons carrying radar near borders. Target acquisition won't be a problem. The only problem will be rocket ammunition with a range longer than 100 km domestically produced.

You forgot about the most important part - Poland aquired IBCS which cooperates with Himars as well, making 4example GMLRS an adjustable weapon. Another case is that Himars might be transported by air meaning Poland will help USA in their wars with their power. Another case is - Poland wants to be a military power and protection donor, Polish rocket artillery spawned in baltic states means -> moscov and many more valuable targets are in range, with that in mind, moscovia is scre**d.

Himars will be used to defend Baltic countries.

If one asks what for - well, it gives you the destruction of a nuke without the nuke and its pollution.

Poland has focused on building strong land forces, other countries have significantly expanded navies and air forces.

Poland made its stronger to let USA focus on other main geopolitical cases like China region, North Africa with Izrael and so on ...

Poland is also getting lots of K9 Thunders, so they'll have heaps of rocket & tube arty.

Poland buying a lot of military hardware, this includes MLRS, tanks and artillery from South Korea.

They should have built a factory in Poland

6:06 - Pretty sure this was meant to say "trillion" not "billion".

Poland is flat relatively indefensible land so 700+ mobile rocket system seems like a logical investment in my opinion. ''it is better to attack than to receive one''-R. W Gibbes a fine British loyalist. I would not like to be Poland's commanders shoes for even 700+ Himar like platforms is still not enough with Russia for a Next door neighbour. Still better then not having them for Poland has procured it's self an in house assault rifle aerial platforms is what Poland really needs to have a chance of securing it's national borders integrity.

"To kill Niemcy .. I mean, Rosja ..." - Polandball

I wish Russia the best of luck - they’re going to need it when the skies over the Polish border start playing Yankee Doodle.

*Snif snif* Is that a mistake i smell ? 6:03 GDP USA: 25 billion? GDP Poland 0.7 billion? You guys mean trillion right

On top of that Poland ordered korean Chunmoo K239 in version called Homar K