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During an arms fair in Kyiv, Poland’s defense industry is going to showcase the widest range of its products, according to the Polish newspaper, Rzeczpospolita.
Polish arms manufacturers hope that Ukraine will become their biggest client, according to the report.
"We hope for a breakthrough in the arms business, setting clear rules and paths financing of the most advanced programs and joint ventures,” said Slawomir Kulakowski, President of the Polish Chamber of National Defense.
After the Maidan and the beginning of war in Donbas, Polish companies started selling to Ukraine military uniforms, body armor, helmets, and ballistic shields. Gradually, this cooperation developed further.
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The publication notes that these relations in the defense sector did not develop unilaterally. "We have agreed to and have developed some truly effective cooperation with the Ukrainian centers Progress and Luch in the development of laser-guided precision munitions for howitzers and mortars, as well as anti-tank guided missiles Pirat,” said Professor Zbigniew Puzevicz, head of the Research and Production Center Telesystem Mesko.
The publication adds that its unofficial sources report on Ukraine’s interest in the Polish experience in the modernization of T-72 tanks, as well as artillery radars developed by Warsaw's scientific and production center PIT-Radwar, as well as modern tracking equipment produced by the Industrial Optics Center.
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Kulakowski confirmed that Kyiv was interested in the Polish technologically advanced simulators lowering the cost of soldiers’ training, communications equipment, electronic equipment for recognition and surveillance, facilitating night-time combat.
Earlier, U.S. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter said that the Pentagon was considering the issue of granting Ukraine defensive lethal weapons.