Airshow in Katowice. 29-30.08.2015 part II · 4:56pm Aug 31st, 2015
Well, I had to go yesterday, but today I have more time so I will upload the rest of the photos. So let's go.
On a poster "Scorpion Squadron". Two jeeps Willys - the most popular vechicle on the West during II WW and later. Even today many units use them.
Bren Carrier's engine. Around him, was sitting infranty.
And now our National pride - Main Battle Tank - PT-91 "Tvardy" (Tough)
It a very deep modification of T-72. Modernized cannon and target marks. We have them in our army for almost 30 years, and still those tanks can defeat the modernest Russian Tanks. It's cannons will never get too old - we have problem only with an ammunition. This tank can use the mordernest shells, but they are very expensive so we still need to use a bit old ammo type (financial problems etc.).
Of course, the newest tanks (for example Leopard 2A6 or T-80) are better than him, but not as much.
Some Humvees :D
Blyskavika (I don't know how to write it in English). Ehm... Polish submachingun from Warsaw Uprising in 1944. :D
Old, good Kubelwagen with old, good MG34.
Never go to sleep during the day :P.
Another Jeep Willy (We have 5 of them there). This one is with a machingun Browning M1919 cal. 7.92 (or 7.62. I can't remember :/)
Mauser and Panzerfaust :D.
Well, I'm not good with planes so I don't know what is this. Sorry :/
Polish glider "Puchacz".
Our uniforms :P. Who knows? To whom they belong?
Light AT cannon Pak 36 cal. 37 (Of course. Germany weapon :P)
Sten MK.V - Airboys' submachingun :P.
So many weapons *_* (We can see there LKM Bren and Stens - Mk. II, III and V). And of course heavy truck Studebaker.
It isn't Studebaker but I'm not sure what exactly is this. I think it could be an another popular US truck GMC CCKW.
Our rocket's transporter, but I don't know his name :<.
Jeep's life is hard :/.
Our AA gun ZSU-23-2 cal.23 mm. I was trying to sit behind it and take a photo of whole mechanism, but soldier said I should come later because it isn't ready yet. And later there were a lot of kids so I decided to go away (I won't fight with kids. There was too many of them xD).
Humvee with a turret and .50 cal. M2HB.
Automatic Granade launcher Mark 19.
Inside the Rosomak :D
Rosomak can take 8 soldiers on a board (4 on a both side). 
It's not a M2HB (Russian MG PPK) mounted on Humvee.
My brother is dressing a full landing equipment. It's almost 30 extra kilograms + full equipment under this jacket. Soldier during the jump had almost 60 kilograms - that's why they hade so big parachutes.
He is crazy, cause he decide to wear it when on outside was 34 degress (Well I had an uniform too this day xd).
Unfortunately, during the next day I've decided to not wear an uniform (It was almost 40 degres!) and wear a shorts and T-shirt. But, because we were on an airfield, I've decided to hid under Studebaker and stay there a whole day. Soon, someone joined me :P.
That's all. 99% of photos are from the first day of event, because the next day was too hot to move anywhere.
However, I'd like to go again on event like this one :D.
These pictures are neat!
3361454 more guns more happier I am
My father and cousin were there. And uncle and his son too.
Nice english-i-sations of our words but I think most people would want to have name translations attached to them.
Now the addonal info corner:
Twardy has only one weakness - during the rain the electronics [communications, etc.] can soak and break down. But evry tank of this class has one - Abrams tend to drown in wet mud if I remember correctly.
Pitty they hadn't shown the PL-01 Concept there. ONE frikkin' prototype going and why isn't it there!?
You drink the only right orangede! #Rydzyk
What kind of rockets are those beauties?
Ah, the Rosomak - the thing that the amerikans weren't able to replicate. During the arabic shiet of early 2000s those things gave our guyz the minimal casualities. And given the cirkumstances and polish procedures - the hole "get ur army in the middle east" thing went rather well. Any tries of amerikan coping the Rosomaks were too late and with flaws, like lower performace. [propably due to material saving - thiner things break easier]
3367163 USA tried to copy Rosomak but they already have their Bradleys so KTO isn't neccesery to him.
They are AA but I'm not sure.
Pl-01 Concept has only a prototype made from Wood or something like that. I need to read about it because I can't remember.
Tvardy Has the same problem like other modern tanks. So :P . Tvardy isn't bad, but his armor gotten old and soon he will to be replace by a new tank.
3367231 They have lower engine perfomance and it breaks much more often than in Rosomaks.
The most important parts [engine, comps] of it were real. But who cares - production starts in 2 years, first units enter army in 3 and that really matters.
It's how evolution and military works. But we got crisis, so I don't think that in the next 15 years they would be able to even start to introduce new machines. And PL-01 is out of this discussion; he's suposed to be more of a support vechicle in a skin of a tank than a killer for massive open battles. "Indoor" city fights where they aren't supposed to meet other tanks.
3367268 I agree with their lower engine perfomances, but they don't broken more than an other this kind vechicles - at least I've never heard about, that Bradleys are very contingency.
In my opinion we should create a clear MBT instead support tank like PL-01 Concept. Look at the other countries - everyone has MBTs and BWPs (or KTO). Only we try to build a hybrid of a tank and transporter/support vechicle (As I remember Concept can take 4 soldiers as an assalut, isn't it?). We should do like USA did - MBT adapted to city combat (Abrams TUSK), with the possibility of adapt him for example to Long range combats.
Maybe we won't be able to produce a new tank, but we should buy more Leopards 2A6 (and A5)from Germany. It would be a very good alternative instead Pt-91 - for now, and we could use him long enough to create our new MBT. We need just a better ammunition for them.
3367345 Propably it's just a bigger number of them and more active exploitation that make the number.
It's kind of future thinking. We're producing something that noone makes yet but evrything shows that the actual battlefield has a spot for it. It worked with the Rosomaks, hasn't it? In this case vechicle a class heavier than the commonly used transports nowadays. The conclusion: PL-01 is there to be a thing that can hunt down >>simlar tier<< vechicles on urban terrain. Tanks are too slow and too big for this. And still does the suport job. Tanks are in comparision brutes and PL is a still-pretty-big bro.
Adapting a combat vechicle to a next role makes you more dependant on a fixed model. An enemy would find a weakness and in months would get the solution to wide-spread army use. Keeping the variety and keeping introduction of newer and newer models is a solution. Expecially in our army, where quality over quantity, 90% of soldiers are medics by forregn standards [unsure of that but it's abaut the medical courses here] and 600 000 isn't that bad for our actual situation.
We're forgetting the political aspect here. The production of a tank as a prestige economical event. Silesia is already full of car parts factories. The materials and specialists are already flowing there - hacking under the river of those services should be relatively cheap. Besides - we're building a tank to fight future battles that we want to be solid. Might as well pump him full with gadgets and make him look like Star Trek. Because why not - the final product isn't that big, so camuflage re-purpose is easy. And besides - camo in a city battle?
Please remember it's a friendly conversation.
3367345 Oh, and something more.
Why to create something that already is out there? We can buy it if it egzists.
Tusk is still a big cow to drive around in a city. In both meanings. XD
Our situation: the only country treating us is Russia. We don't stand the chance in the open field - with their numbers they would flank us. We also don't have enought gear to defend open air bases. The solution: evolve into ani-siedge combat in cities. Russian would try to take the cities where we would dominate them and their numbers wouldn't matter that much. That seems how the commands seems things. The open battle plan is an offensive and offensives can only be performed alongside the rest NATO forces. Not that I'm a soldier but think abaut it. We can as well live at the brink of Cold War 2.