Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Polish military in the news

Now that every day it looks more and more that Russia will invade Ukraine and if not stopped it may attack Poland as well Polish military found itself in the news, and to our surprise in the good light. Why? Apparently, if Russia crosses the Bug river, Polish west border, there is not much that can stop Russian tanks. Poland is the best chance to stop them, or actually slow them down, since it has more main battle tanks (1000) then Germany (400 + 30 American tanks) and France (400) together. What they fail to mention is that according to Polish estimates if left alone Poland can only defend itself for 1-2 weeks.

Among other stories we found several articles about Polish prototype light tank that, if built, we be the most advanced tank in the world. By most accounts this tank will be invisible to both radar and infrared systems. (Someone joked that Americans already built such stealth tank but someone forgot where it was parked and now they can't find it.)