Poland has signed a €3.3 billion ($3.8 billion) defense agreement with South Korea to jointly manufacture medium-range precision-guided missiles, marking a significant
step in Warsaw’s efforts to strengthen its domestic defense industry.
The contract was signed Monday by Poland’s Armament Agency and a consortium comprising South Korea’s Hanwha and Poland’s WB Group, according to TVP World.
Under the agreement, the partners will jointly produce more than 10,000 CGR-080 missiles for Poland’s Homar-K multiple rocket launcher systems. A new Polish–South Korean production facility will be established in the northwestern city of Gorzów Wielkopolski, officials said.
Missile deliveries are scheduled for 2030–2033.
The munitions will be integrated into the Homar-K launcher, a Polish-adapted version of South Korea’s K239 Chunmoo multiple rocket launcher system, mounted on domestically manufactured Jelcz military trucks.
Polish Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz described the deal as a major advance toward defense self-reliance, emphasizing technology transfer, production licensing, and the expansion of local manufacturing capabilities.
“Manufacturing independence is now becoming a reality,” he said, according to the state news agency PAP.
Senior Polish defense officials and a special envoy of the South Korean president attended the signing ceremony. Kosiniak-Kamysz added that the planned facility in Gorzów Wielkopolski is intended to serve as a European hub for the sale of Chunmoo rocket munitions to other regional customers.
The agreement is the third major defense deal between Poland and South Korea in recent years. Contracts signed in 2022 and 2024 included the purchase of approximately 290 Homar-K launcher modules, along with thousands of medium- and long-range precision-guided missiles. Photo by Ministerstwo Obrony Narodowej, Wikimedia commons.