The Ukrainians decided to order more Cave carbines from the Radom factory, Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Mariusz Błaszczak announced on Thursday.
Onet’s lantern
Błaszczak was asked by Polish Radio’s first program to comment on the onet.pl portal’s reports on the Polish Cave carbines. In early March, Onet wrote that carbines, including those used by the Ukrainian military, are “burdened with so many flaws, that a soldier loses faith in them.”
Such failures and jamming of the carbine at critical moments of battle even mean a death threat to a soldier
emphasized the portal.
Ukrainians are buying more caves
The deputy prime minister ruled that the publication of Onet is “another attack on the portal, owned by the German-Swiss capital”.
I have good news for the Polish arms industry. The Ukrainians decided to order more Arrowheads from the factory in Radom (in Fabryka Broni +Łucznik+ – PAP). I think this is the best answer to all these publications
Blaszczak said.
He did not specify the size of the order. At the same time, he assured that “it will not be a trace order”. When asked if the order was certain, he replied: “Yes, it is already certain.”
In 2022, after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a certain number of Grots were handed over to Ukrainian soldiers as part of the equipment supplied by Poland. In addition, an unknown number of Arrowheads were sold to the US Special Forces Command, as well as to an unknown country in the East African region.
The Grot 5.56mm assault rifle, developed by Fabryka Broni Łucznik in Radom in collaboration with the Military University of Technology, was created as a result of the Modular Small Arms System (MSBS) project implemented as part of the TYTAN Advanced Individual Combat Systems (ZISW) program.
The modular design offers the ability to quickly adapt to the needs of the user, and the carabiner can be available in many configurations and versions, both in a classic and bullpup system. The first copies of the MSBS Cave came in 2017 in the equipment of the Territorial Defense Forces and from 2019 also in the equipment of operational troops.
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Source: wPolityce