On Wednesday, 24 September 2025, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defense Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz announced on social media the second delivery this year of 155 mm AHS Krab self-propelled howitzers to the Polish Armed Forces. The recipient of the military equipment is the 23rd Silesian Artillery Regiment (23. PA) in Bolesławiec. The deliveries are handled by Huta Stalowa Wola (HSW), part of the Polish Armaments Group (PGZ).
Photos: Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz via X
“Another important step in strengthening our defense! Eight modern Krab howitzers, produced in our domestic industrial facilities, have been delivered to the 23rd Silesian Artillery Regiment. The unit is also receiving components of the Regina artillery battalion fire module, which significantly increases the capabilities of our artillery,” wrote the Minister of National Defense on the social platform X.
The first delivery this year, also to the 23rd Artillery Regiment, took place almost a month earlier, on 25 August. It included eight 155 mm AHS Krab howitzers, a WDSz command-and-staff vehicle, three WD command vehicles, and two WA ammunition vehicles. At that time, HSW announced further deliveries this year as part of the third Regina artillery battalion fire module (DMO).
Due to the execution of an extraordinary order for wartime Ukraine, which contracted 54 AHS Krab howitzers (deliveries were completed in December 2024), the planned deliveries of the remaining 42 guns for the Polish Armed Forces under the 14 December 2016 contract (out of a total of 96 units, plus 2 additional units from 16 December 2020, 54 of which were donated to Ukraine) and the 48 units under the 5 September 2022 contract were shifted from 2022–2024 to 2025–2027.
According to the current schedule, HSW is to deliver 34 howitzers in 2025, 32 in 2026, and the remaining 24 in 2027.
On 8 December 2023, a framework agreement was concluded for the delivery of another 152 units, and the first contract for 96 of them in a modernized version, was signed on 23 December 2024, it provides for deliveries in 2027–2029. On 7 April of this year, HSW signed a contract with the South Korean company Hanwha Aerospace for the supply of chassis components, including power packs for the AHS Krab.
The howitzers are being procured together with accompanying vehicles for the Regina artillery battalion fire modules (DMO).
The second primary 155 mm NATO-caliber tube artillery system in the Polish Armed Forces is the South Korean K9A1 Thunder howitzer, produced by the aforementioned Hanwha Aerospace.
So far, 150 out of the 212 units ordered on 26 August 2022 have been delivered. Then, on 1 December 2023, an additional 6 K9A1s and 146 Polish-configured K9PLs were ordered, and on 2 December 2024 the Ministry of National Defense announced that the execution of this order had begun. Subsequently, on 23 December 2024, the ministry signed a contract with HSW for the delivery of more than 250 accompanying vehicles for these howitzers.
Kolejny ważny krok w umacnianiu naszej obronności! Do 23 Śląskiego Pułku Artylerii trafiło 8 nowoczesnych haubic KRAB, wyprodukowanych w naszych zakładach przemysłowych. Do jednostki trafiają także elementy dywizjonowego modułu ogniowego REGINA, który znacząco zwiększa zdolności… pic.twitter.com/gss9kXDhGH
— Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz (@KosiniakKamysz) September 24, 2025
