Revealed! Here's Why Poland Prefers AgustaWestland AW149 helicopters for the Polish Armed Forces 

Same reason why Poland is diversifying tanks/IFVs - to not be reliant on one source. LEOs were a pain to deal with due to Germany BS.... US has its quirks as well.

These helicopters are manufactured in Poland at PZL Świdnik.

In Poland, its most important armament will be the Brimstone ATGM. I am happy with this purchase, but I was hoping that the Polish Ministry of Defense would buy training helicopters in the first place, such as the AW-109, to replace them with the Mi-2 training helicopters. Minister Błaszczak has recently declared the purchase of more S-70i helicopters at PZL-MIELEC, i.e. machines of a similar size to the AW-149.

Poland will be a military power when it gets all the equipment .. 200 F16V F35A F15EX KF21PL,1700 tanks K2PL and Abrams SepV3 in the future SepV4 many MQ9 Reaper Bayraktar Gryf Gladius drones and many more, for this training and combat planes FA50PL Block 20 and Korean Himarys whose names I forgot .. lot more equipment

nice one.

I would love to see Korean made K9's sent to Ukraine. It will be an interesting duel between North Korean made shells and South Korean made artillery/shells. The fact that North Korea sending artillery shells to Russia gives South Korea a green light to send arms to Ukraine.

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Except it wasn't compliant with the requirements of the original tender. Actually only one helicopter was.

so.... what was the reason?

as a pole i can tell you actual reason without even watching: money

USA purchased the same helicopter and it’s called gray wolf

The only weapons Poland needs at the moment are nuclear submarines. Where are the subs?

Great to see Italian engineering doing well. Its so sad that Italian politics stop many from growing due to taxes and bad politics.

get a voice

Disadvantages : 1) Large windows in the transportation section. 2) Poor armoring. 3) No ramp at the rear (long loading/unloading time. Cannot take sapper robots, unmanned platforms, and other vehicles . 4) Small side doors. Hard to install .50 BMG there . Landing craft during embarkation / disembarkation has no shooting cover. 5) All items have to be lifted including stretchers with wounded, ammunition bins, heavy team weapons such as 120 mm mortars , automatic grenade launchers, etc. 6) When it takes a landing craft it is hard to rearm it on the side mounts. Suspended armament is unlikely to help in loading and unloading. It is not very clear what is the resistance of this helicopter to modern mines attacking low-flying targets. I wonder what decided Poland to purchase these helicopters ? Legendary ,Italian workmanship, or even more legendary product maintenance (see - training aircraft, grounded all the time). Not for me to judge....

Brawo Polska 👍🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱👍 Brawo PIS 👍🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱👍

To jest zakup polityczny.Reszta to dorabianie ideologii. Krótko mówiąc przeszklona taksówka do wożenia dupska generalicji. Nigdzie nie sprawdzony w walce, słabiej uzbrojony od S70 i włoski ..... czyli kłopoty na horyzoncie jak z Masterami i wieżą do rośka. Ale poświęcony i to przez Watykan😂

Ah 249 ...top of Apache