Out With the Old, in With the New(er) Not every nation in the world is willing to send tanks to Ukraine to help them fight off the Russians. However, one country that has not been afraid to do so has been Poland. According to the Ukrainian multimedia platform Ukrinform, Poland has sent more than 240 […]
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The Polish P-64 service pistol
The Polish P-64 is a unique pistol in that it probably draws more inspiration from the Walther PPK than other Eastern Bloc designs but the influence of the Makarov remains obvious — it even uses the Russian 9x18mm round for the military variant. Developed in the late 1950s at Poland‘s Institute for Artillery Research, the P-64 was designed by a team […]
Photo Gallery: Poland’s elite counter terrorism unit, GROM
GROM is Poland’s elite counter-terrorism unit. GROM, Polish for “thunder”, is named after an elite Polish unit from WWII. In 1982, the Polish embassy in Bern was taken over by terrorists, and after the incident, it was suggested that an elite counter-terrorist unit is established, but the idea was rejected. It was not until 1990 […]