The 24 guns now in his regiment’s care are just the tip of a massive defence spending programme by Poland. "We can see from the way Ukrainians use artillery that they need to be very fast: into action, fire and move on," he said. Given the war happening in neighbouring Ukraine, it's given them the confidence that if conflict came to their doorstep, they would now have the weapons to fight back. There is no place we can’t shoot from. We had a lot of old artillery but now we have very new weapons." “We can manoeuvre better, we can shoot from anywhere. “As an artillery officer I’m excited by the new equipment,” Captain Adamiak told The Telegraph. Stationed not far from the Russian border, his unit has long grappled with outdated kit.īut in mid-December they received 24 South-Korean made K9 self-propelled howitzers that can hit targets up to 34 miles away, bringing new and deadly capabilities to the regiment. Christmas came early for Captain Marek Adamiak and the troops of Poland's 11th Artillery Regiment.
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