Exhibition of the Polish Armed Forces

This exhibition constitutes an excellent opportunity to present the changing face of the Polish Army, its modern equipment and armaments, as well as its expanding capacities, which enable the Polish military to effectively accomplish their tasks in the most unfavourable combat environment.

This will happen this year...

The motto of this year's Exhibition of the Armed Forces will be "New Standards in the Professional Army". The exhibition has been organized by the Inspectorate of Support for the Armed Forces in partnership with the Land Forces and the Military Police. Visitors to the Kielce exhibition centre will have an opportunity to view the latest armaments and military equipment being used by the Armed Forces. On the first day of this exhibition, (6th September) a dynamic presentation will be held, with soldiers of the 17th Wielkopolska Mechanized Brigade demonstrating the operation of an ambushed platoon.

The Exhibition of the Land Forces will feature armaments and military equipment used by the following troops:

• armoured and mechanized (e.g. KTO ROSOMAK, equipment and armaments for a mechanized infantry squad);
• artillery (122mm missile launcher WR-40 LANGUSTA, artillery reconnaissance system RZRA LIWIEC);
• anti-aircraft defence (radiolocation station NUR-22, modernized mobile anti-aircraft missile system PRWB OSA, command-post vehicles ZWD-10R ŁOWCZA 3KS and WD-2001 REGA-1, 23mm artillery and missile systems ZUR-23 and ZSU-23-4-MP BIAŁA, anti-aircraft system LOARA);
• engineering (e.g. unmanned mine disposal system INSPECTOR, robot EXPERT)
• defence against weapons of mass destruction (sample collection system MZPP-1)
• airmobile (Tactical Air Space Control Team)
• communications (Command Post's Mobile Module MMSD, Mobile Communications Centre, radio stations)

What the Military Police will display in Kielce is the armoured patrol and armed intervention vehicle DZIK-2 Gucio, command vehicle ŻW ŁOŚ, as well as the patrol and armed intervention vehicle HMMWV.

The Inspectorate of the Military Health Care will show the provision of emergency medical assistance (Level 1), with a containerized dressing station being used. The exhibits will also include the Afghan variant of the medical evacuation vehicle KTO ROSOMAK WEM and other medical vehicles.

Logistics officers representing the army units of the Inspectorate of Support for the Armed Forces will present selected elements of logistics support in battlefield conditions, e.g.:

• providing military materials and infrastructure (containerized officers' mess, water tank, housing and medical containers);
• technical facilities (armament repair workshop, containerized technical support module encompassing a repair workshop, warehouse, generator);
• logistics vehicles such as the truck Jelcz 862 Hiab and the low-clearance system Iveco Trakker.

The exhibition will also feature stands prepared by Research and Implementation Centres operating as part of the Inspectorate for Support for the Armed Forces. Experts representing the Military Research and Implementation Centre for Uniforms will show the latest trends in uniforms and equipment used by individual soldiers in Poland, while the Military Research and Implementation Centre for Food will present the methods of testing and certifying foodstuffs and related equipment produced for the Polish Armed Forces.

On the first day of the Exhibition, visitors will be offered a unique opportunity to watch military equipment in operation, which has been prepared by the 17th Wielkopolska Mechanized Brigade, with Major Grzegorz Kaliciak – commander of the legendary defence of the City Hall in Karbala, Iraq, in 2004, five years later chosen in a popular vote organized by “Polska Zbrojna” magazine as the “Soldier of the Year” – being in charge of the event. Soldiers of the “seventeen”, using equipment that has seen service in Afghanistan, will show the operation of an ambushed platoon, helicopters Mi-24 providing fire support to the assaulted patrol (Close Air Support - CAS), evacuation of a wounded soldier from the battlefield (MEDEVAC) with a Mi-17 helicopter, as well as a reconnaissance of the ambush area for explosive ordnance disposal (EOD). This demonstrations will be carried out in conditions imitating the real battlefield, with special simulators being used.


This happened last year...

In 2009, the Exhibition of the Armed Forces, its motto being "Professional Soldiers - Professional Equipment", featured the latest armaments and military equipment utilized by the Armed Forces, including armoured personnel carriers ROSOMAK, engineering equipment, anti-aircraft artillery and missile systems, reconnaissance and logistics equipment. As part of the dynamic presentation, the equipment evacuation units of the 1st Logistics Brigade showed various methods of evacuating damaged equipment from the battlefield. Among the exhibited operations was the loading of a PT-91 tank onto a low-clearance carrier, evacuation of a damaged BWP infantry vehicle by means of a WZT-3 vehicle, as well as the loading of a reconnaissance vehicle HMMWV onto a self-loading platform. Information relating to the Exhibition of the Armed Forces is provided by Lieutenant-Colonel Andrzej Lis, spokesman for the Inspectorate of Support for the Armed Forces (tel. 603 772 504). All those interested are welcome to visit the website of the Inspectorate, which contains pictures and videos of last year’s Exhibition of the Armed Forces.

http://www.iwspsz.wp.mil.pl/pl/71.html