5:30 19 May 2026
Poland signs Abrams engine deal
Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Defence Minister Kosiniak-Kamysz oversaw the signing on Monday of an agreement between state-owned Military Aviation Works No. 1 in Dęblin and US engineering giant Honeywell. Under the deal, Dęblin will host an Authorised Service Centre for the AGT1500 engines that power Abrams battle tanks — the third such facility worldwide and the only one in Europe. Poland operates a growing fleet of Abrams tanks purchased from the United States. The prime minister called the signing evidence that Poland has made itself indispensable to US defence industry interests, using the occasion to push back against Hegseth's troop-deployment reversal and to argue that the Polish-American relationship cannot be reduced to any single logistical decision.
