Partia AMV military transporter: Right price, wrong vehicle

Controversy continues to surround the F16 purchase and in particular the offset proposals from which the economy was supposed to benefit. However, hardly anything is said about another major purchase of armored vehicles finalized by the army. At the end of December a tender was resolved, the value of which is estimated at zl. 5 billion. Soon after, a wave of critical remarks were voiced evaluating the whole enterprise. The bid was won by the Finnish transporter Partia AMV. "The company that emerged victorious was the one to which the Polish side conformed all its criteria. The government failed to make a detailed list of requirements concerning the strategic and technical specifications of the equipment," said former Defense Minister Bronislaw Komorowski, unabashedly. The central criterion according to which the vehicles were evaluated was price. According to specialists, the Finnish transporter does not comply with the specifications of the Polish army concerning armored vehicles, and as such would have to be reconstructed. The first Finnish transporters will be received by the army in two years. (www.rmf.pl) A.C.