![]() ![]() ![]() With a closely contested election in Poland due in October or November, experts say the pace of spending and the domestic debate around it are driven in part by campaigning."Poland is moving fast, spends a lot, but I do have a sense that whoever is in the next government, there will be a need to get to the bottom of figuring out how much it all costs, how all the elements work together and the question of lifecycle costs," said Michal Baranowski, a managing director at the German Marshall Fund. The government says it has the financial backing to fund defence plans."The implementation of the tasks for the purchase of military equipment (.) is based on the projected financing possibilities of the programme," the Polish defence ministry said in response to questions from Reuters. "It is hard to say any of the decisions are wrong but the government does not explain where the money will come from." "One-third of the spend is booked outside the budget, we don't see it," one former official said. ![]() The last time Poland was close to present defence ambitions was in 1982, in the throes of the Cold War, when it spent 3.2% of GDP on defence, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.But former officials and opposition groups say new purchases are too fragmented - several types of tanks are being bought - which increases the cost of maintenance, training and repairs, and that budgetary plans are not transparent enough. Warsaw's ruling Law and Justice government (PiS) says it is also making a historic overhaul of its air defences. Since the start of the war in Ukraine, Warsaw has ordered 250 U.S.-made Abrams tanks, hundreds of Chunmoo rocket launchers, K2 tanks, K9 self-propelled howitzers, and FA-50 fighter aircraft from South Korea as well as Lockheed Martin Corp's (LMT.N) HIMARS rocket launchers. "To what extent will this be actually delivered? And how can that influence the calculus for other allies?" WHERE WILL THE MONEY COME FROM? ![]()
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