The Canadian military is used to procurement timelines that can cover decades. So how did South Korea manage to deliver new tanks and guns to Poland just four months after the contract was signed?
Poland's President Andrzej Duda attends a press conference in the Polish Navy port of Gdynia, Poland on Dec. 6, 2022. Duda and his defence minister have welcomed the first delivery of tanks and howitzers from South Korea, hailing the swift implementation of a deal signed in the summer in the face of the war in neighbouring Ukraine.
What made the scene exceptional was the fact the contract between the two nations was signed barely four months before the big tanks and guns rolled onto the pier. And that's only the tip of the iceberg. Eventually, Poland intends to buy up to 1,000 of the South Korean tanks, 688 of the howitzers and 48 FA-50 jet fighters, which can be used as trainers and light combat aircraft.
A plan to fast-track military equipment purchases, announced by Defence Minister Anita Anand in March, still doesn't have a timeline."Poland is right on the border and I think has a much more clear focus, and much greater sense of urgency, that its troops need equipment, not 10 years, or 15 or 20 years from now, but they need equipment now," said Perry, vice president of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute.
Grodzki said it's not up to him to assess the internal politics of an ally — but he urged Canadian politicians on an individual level to leave behind their "illusions ... about the nature of Russia."
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