Army to sell or destroy one-third of outdated arsenal

One-third of the Polish military arsenal is unusable so the Defense Ministry is planning to restructure its stocks. The Ministry plans to either dispose of or sell the old arsenal. T-55 tanks, mi-2 helicopters, some ships, planes and cars will be sold, as often they are older than the soldiers using them. The Ministry estimates this exercise will save zl. 1.5 billion-zl. 2 billion which can be put towards renovating the still usable equipment. "Modernization of the equipment would cost us more and more. That is why reduction is one of the ways of modernizing equipment," said Defense Minister Bronislaw Komorowski. Activity of some military units will be frozen and some will be totally liquidated. Buyers for helicopters and tanks can be found in the Far East. (Zycie 1, 6)