The Polish Armed Forces Group wants to prepare a joint offer of state and private companies for the European Anti-Balistic Coalition. Sensors are to be a Polish asset. The stake is higher than a single contract: it is whether Poland will become a co-founder of the defence system, or only its client and payer.
PGZ collects Polish competences
The Polish Armed Forces Group organises a gathering with representatives of the national defence industry. The aim is to prepare a Polish offer of participation in the European anti-balistic coalition. According to Bankier.pl, PGZ Vice-President Arkadiusz Bąk pointed out that solutions in the field of sensors may be an crucial contribution of Poland.
This is the phase of building proposals, not a contract or a ready-made system. That is why the current decisions are so important. If Polish companies come together from the beginning, they can negociate as suppliers of circumstantial capacities. Distributed and quarrelled will be easy imported into the function of subcontractors carrying out the least valuable parts of the contract.
The joint appearance of PGZ and private companies is the right direction. The state group has a scale, production facilities and relations with the administration. The private sector brings solutions developed faster, frequently in specialised niches. Polish defence needs both pillars. Artificial division by state and private sector would weaken the country's position towards much larger western concerns.
Sensors are the eyes of defense
The anti-Balistic defence doesn't start with a rocket launch. First you gotta detect the threat, identify its path, connect data from multiple sources and transfer it to the command system. Without a credible image of the situation even a very costly effector remains blind. Therefore, the indication of sensors as a Polish specialty is not a method addition to a larger project. It's a fight for a place in his delicate part.
Poland besides has a peculiar operational interest. We're lying on the east flank of NATO, close an area where a real rocket threat may come. A strategy designed without taking into account our geographical conditions, infrastructure and experience would be a mediocre solution. Warsaw cannot so be limited to ordering abroad kits. It should co-determine the architecture of detection, data exchange, service and improvement of the full system.
The European task must besides strengthen NATO, not make political competition for the Alliance and its ties with the United States. safety cannot be another pretext for Brussels' federalist ambitions. Poland should enter into European cooperation with its own capabilities, tough industrial conditions and full control of the solutions essential to defend its own territory.
Contract is not enough
The worst variant is well known for many large purchases: money flows abroad, the finished product goes to Poland, and the home manufacture receives limited assembly or simple auxiliary work. specified a model improves military capabilities in a short time, but does not build technological sovereignty. During the crisis, you depend on abroad service, parts, updates and political decisions of the supplier.
Therefore, the Polish offer should include the measurable share of national production, the right to make solutions, service throughout the life cycle and participation of Polish engineers in strategy integration. It is besides crucial to be able to increase production in the event of a threat. A paper declaration of European cooperation will not halt the rocket. This will be done by the efficient strategy behind which the factories, staff, supplies and safe supply chains stand.
For the Polish economy this means highly qualified jobs, contracts for suppliers and the improvement of technologies on military and civilian applications. For a taxpayer, it means a chance for any of the immense defence spending to work in the country. For the army means shorter service and greater opposition to supply interruption.
Poland is to enter as a contributor
The PGZ announcement is simply a good start, but the real test will come erstwhile the tasks and ownership of the technology are shared. Then it will be revealed whether the slogan on the European shield means a partnership to build common safety or another marketplace reserved for the biggest players.
Poland does not request an honorary place at the table. It needs to influence the design, production in its own territory and competences that cannot be taken distant from us by 1 political decision. If PGZ and private companies present 1 mature offer, the country can enter the task as a co-founder. That's what national interests require. For the safety of Poles, a permanent dependence on another people's factories and will must not be paid.
Source: Bankier.pl
