Questions are back about the Kondor program. According to the proud name – it was supposed to add new wings to our sea aviation, which de facto boils down to the purchase of new on -board helicopters. He started on paper five years ago and it looks like nobody remembers him anymore.
The SH-2G helicopter has the ability to land on ships, but his service will end soon. It is not produced for a long time. The program of exchange for new ones started five years ago, Kondor was named, but everyone forgot about it, including the then head of the Ministry of National Defense Mariusz Błaszczak. – If we continued to rule, it would be on -board helicopters – he assures.
Nothing happened in the program announced during PiS rule – for many years of PiS rule. – The first came to offer the jacket of this helicopter, while he actually slowed down at some point – admits Łukasz Zalesiński from the monthly “Polska Armed”. Analytical and conceptual work is underway in the Ministry of National Defense – assures Colonel Grzegorz Polak from the Military Armaments Agency.
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The analysis lasts the fifth year. In four years, three new frigates as part of the “Miecznik” program will start to enter service every year. The problem is that for now nobody has an idea to land on them. The power blames its predecessors. – There is a problem of a broken contract for multi -purpose helicopters, which Mr. Macierewicz broke off, and we feel, unfortunately, to this day – says Władysław Kosiniak -Kamysz, Minister of National Defense and Deputy Prime Minister.
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There will be no new helicopter under the Kondor program
Helicopters were not important for PiS, they are very important for the army. – I do not understand the interest in helicopters, which from an operational point of view for the Polish Armed Forces are of a ten -level importance – commented in 2017 Bartosz Kownacki, then deputy minister of national defense from PiS.
SH-2G can detect and fight underwater ships with torpedoes, but not only. – They can recognize, indicate the goals that are outside the horizon, which from the point of view of the ship's crew is crucial, because ship radars do not reach so far – says Łukasz Zalesiński.
Recently, Navy aviation has been equipped with four new, multi-purpose AW-101 helicopters. However, they will not land on the ships. – They are simply genuinely too large and too heavy – notes Cdr. Lieutenant Wiesław Goździewicz, former head of the legal office, NATO connected forces training center.
The general staff to the questions of “Facts” of TVN answers that the helicopter under the Kondor program will not be. The machines are to be selected as part of the New Frigate Delivery Program. – I fix a lot after my predecessors and I will repair – assures the Minister of National Defense.
The Polish Army has four SH-2G helicopters. Not all are functional. The youngest of them was produced 30 years ago.
Source of the main photo: Facts of TVN