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Польша теснит Россию на индийском рынке бронетехники…
Пока мы ломаем голову, почему Малазийцы не выбрали Т-90, а предпочли РТ-91. Бывшие братья по соцлагерю открыли новый фронт по вытеснению России с рынков оружия. Пока Нижний Тагил «валил» Омск и пытался доказать, что они самые крутые, скромные и тихие поляки без лишнего шума отрезают большущие куски от рынка военной техники. Печально…
Polish military monthly reports on Defexpo
(Warsaw Report, 20 March 2002)
Fortune seems to have finally smiled upon the Polish arms industry. After several years of attempts and dramatic negotiations, on 01 March 2002 representatives of the Warsaw-based Industrial Optics Center [PCO] signed contracts in Delhi worth $72 million, to supply 250 complete Drawa-T fire control systems for Indian T-72 tanks undergoing modernization. The agreement is supposed to be in force for 2½ years. The FCS will be sent to the armour plant in Avadi near Madras, where under the eye of Polish specialists they will be installed in the vehicles being renovated. They will enable Indian armoured forces to do effective night time battle at a distance of at least 2000 meters. Of the 1400 T-72s that Delhi has at its disposal, 800 are supposed gain a new life and new combat capabilities. It cannot be ruled out that several hundred Indian tanks and infantry combat vehicles will be outfitted with PCO devices, Obra defence systems and passive nocturnal observation devices. This is not the end of the list of the Polish arms industry's successes on the Dakan Peninsula. On 28 February 2002, sealed envelopes containing the details of bids to supply 18 technical support and evacuation vehicles built on T-72 chasses were opened in Delhi, thereby finalizing the newest round of India's latest tender for such vehicles. The final run-off was between the Slovaks and the Poles. The overall contract package offered by PHZ [Foreign Trade Enterprise] BUMAR, Bumar Labedy, and the Polish companies' local partner BEML, turned out to be several million dollars cheaper than the competition's (a total of more than $70 million). This thus augurs another serious transaction for our WZT-3 technical support vehicles, after the first supply of 44 such vehicles by Labedy.
One more Indian contract for the Polish arms industry is in its final stage. The Indians wish to acquire 625 assault parachutes from the company Air-Pol, and the same number of automatic devices ensuring their reliable opening, with a total value of $1.5 million. Also on the horizon is a transaction for a further 300-400 precise-lending parachutes, together with high-altitude jump outfitting sets, for a special assault unit. This transaction is assessed at $8-10 million. In order to win the contract, three competitors must be defeated. The Indians have already asked Air-Pol to provide 2 sets for testing. To this we must add the venture that we already noted in the previous issue of Raport (Cover Story, 02/02). The issue of supplementing the training stock of Iskra jets used at the Indian aviation forces' academy in Hakimpet with 7 more TS-11s, remodelled at WZL-2 [Military Aviation Works] in Bydgoszcz, will finally come to completion. Soon, therefore, there will be another export transaction worth several million dollars. At a modest estimate, the Polish arms industry has won Indian orders exceeding $150 million. This fundamentally changes the balance of Polish arms exports, which in recent years have been in the tens of millions of dollars, at the most.
http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/LAND-FORCES/Army/News/2002/02-Mar.html