More money for refugees i guess...
https://www.defense-aerospace.com/polands-new-government-may-cancel-recent-arms-deals-with-s-korea/
Poland's incoming center-left government has hinted it could cancel several arms deals recently concluded with South Korea by the outgoing government since Oct. 15, including a $2.3 billion contract to buy K9PL self-propelled howitzers signed on Dec. 1. (Polish MoD photo)
SEOUL --- A coalition of opposition parties won enough seats for the Law and Justice party (PiS) to lose power in the Polish parliamentary election this past October. The coalition has announced that it may choose to nullify arms deals worth 3 trillion won (US$2.28 billion) that Poland signed with South Korea.
You are basically clueless and you don’t know what you are talking about.
Poland produces a very similar SPG, the Krab, that is better in many ways than the K9. The Krab gets very good feedback in Ukraine and the producer, HSW, can ramp up the production to 110 SPGs a year.
The Krab’s advantages are:
- it has an air conditioning while the K9 doesn’t. Enjoy the Polish or Ukrainian winter without the a/c (the hint is: it’s not the same as in Portugal).
- it has anti-shrapnel mats, so the crew will enjoy the Krab more if the SPG is hit.
- it has the Topaz, the battle management system. You basically tap your monitor, and the system sets up the gun as quickly as possible, taking different factors, like the weather, the pressure, the ammunition, etc., into account and you press the fire button. All is automatic, you got the intel from a drone and see the target on the screen.
- its turret propulsion is electric vs the hydraulic turret propulsion in the K9. The Koreans want to upgrade the turret propulsion to the electric one in the future.
- the Krab’s powder charges are compatible with the NATO standards, while the South Korean ones are not.
- the Krab’s barrel is extremely reliable and the Ukrainians were able to fire 4000+ shells with it.
Furthermore, in order to develop your economy, clever people try to keep production in their own countries, especially if there's
JUST a similar product available abroad. Your companies and workers pay taxes in your country, you maintain your expertise, you may have a chance to export your products (HSW got an order for 54 Krabs from the Ukrainian government), fewer foreign suppliers hold you by the balls, you have fewer logistical bottlenecks, etc.
The alternative is, you don’t understand it, you prefer to develop other countries’ economies, and you end up like… err… Portugal.
I mean poor ex-commie countries outdevelop you despite you having joined the EU 18+ years earlier.
en.m.wikipedia.org
By keeping production in your country, your GDP grows and you end up having a trade surplus. That's where you get your investments from and you make your customers dependent on you. Take the lesson from the #ChinaVirus developers.
However, the basic problem is, you start educating your students first, so they won’t underperform:
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