NEWS

19/12/2024

12:55

Duda:

I Wish Soldiers and the Minister of National Defence for the Modernization of the Polish Army to Be Completed

- One [worsening security conditions and difficult times] also necessitated further reforms in the Polish army, but above all, an extraordinary, I would even say incredible, acceleration of the modernization process. This modernization is indeed progressing [...] it was a great honor and joy for me to witness you taking over new equipment, the most modern weaponry in the world today - said President Andrzej Duda at a uniformed Christmas Eve meeting. - Starting with that which came to Poland as part of the Vistula program, through all subsequent programs, alongside the air defense program, both anti-aircraft and anti-missile, through the modernization of Polish mechanized troops, armored troops, through the modernization of our artillery, through the modernization that is currently taking place in virtually all areas and which, I wish for all of us, especially you, as well as the Minister of National Defence and his colleagues, that it be completed - he continued. - Of course, this process never ends, because replenishing weaponry, modernizing it, and acquiring new elements of it is an endless process [...] but this modernization process, truly a transition from weaponry that we call post-Soviet [...] is currently being replaced by actually the most modern weaponry, to NATO standards - he further stated.