As part of the work on the Model 2035 plan to modernize and strengthen the Polish armies by 2035, Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Błaszczak announced that the size of the country's Army will increase from 4 divisions today today, to 6 mechanized divisions in 2035, with a significant increase in manpower and staffing equipment.
While Poland only has a GDP of €600 billion, a quarter of that of France, and a population of 38 million, barely 55% of the 68 million French people, the country has 'a very large armed force, particularly in the land domain with 60.000 men divided into 4 divisions of 3 mechanized brigades each, fielding 800 heavy tanks, 500 self-propelled artillery systems and more than 4000 infantry combat vehicles and transport of armored troops.
To respond to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Warsaw intends to increase its military capabilities as part of a vast modernization program called "Model 2035", for which Polish President Andrzej Duda has already announced that the country will focus its efforts defense from 2,2% of GDP today, to more than 3%.
While the Model 2035 program has not yet been officially unveiled, the Minister of Defense, Mariusz Błaszczak, multiplies digressions in the press, and in particular on social networks, to announce the main measures.
Thus, at the beginning of June 2022, the latter announced that Warsaw intended to order 500 additional HIMARS rocket systems to the 20 copies ordered in 2019, as well as two new batteries of Patriot anti-aircraft missiles.
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