(.) We also care about interoperability and building interoperability with the US military. 'Our goal is that the tanks will be used by the Polish Army, can be operated by trained soldiers and it will happen next year. The course has begun, the training has begun, which enables Polish soldiers and Polish technicians to quickly prepare for servicing ABRAMS tanks” “I would like to emphasize that when we announced the purchase of 250 ABRAMS tanks for the purposes of the Polish Army, we said that the process of preparation for the takeover of these tanks by the Polish Army would be very fast, and we get just the effects of those actions. In April this year, Mariusz Błaszczak, the deputy prime minister of the Ministry of National Defence, signed a contract for the purchase of 250 American M1A2 Abrams tanks in their latest configuration, along with accompanying equipment and a training package. The tanks will be mainly used by the 18th Mechanized Division. The tanks are equipped with state-of-the-art communication, vehicle positioning and combat management systems. The M1A2 ABRAMS SEPv3 version purchased by Poland have the specification identical to the equipment used by the US armed forces. In the training conducted by the American side as a part of the so-called The Abrams Academy, a total of approximately 150 soldiers, including technical staff, instructors and crews who will later be users of the equipment will take part by the end of 2022.

On Wednesday, August the 10th, at the Military Training Centre in Poznań, Mariusz Błaszczak, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defence, watched the training of Polish soldiers on Abrams tanks.

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