On Monday, July 6, 2026, the Armament Agency launched a restricted competitive tender procedure for the supply of 7.62 mm × 51 NATO and 8.6 mm × 70 (.338 Lapua Magnum) small-caliber ammunition, as well as 76 mm smoke grenades, in 2027–2029. This is the second attempt to make the purchase, after the first combined tender, conducted from September 1, 2025, was canceled on April 27 this year.
SAKO TRG M10 sniper rifle chambered for 8.6 mm × 70 (.338 Lapua Magnum) ammunition in service with the Territorial Defence Forces / Photo: Territorial Defence Forces Command
The deadline for submitting requests to participate in the procedure will expire on August 10, 2026, at 9:00 a.m. The order has been divided into three lots:
- 280,000 linked 7.62 mm × 51 NATO rounds with DA165 projectiles for Dillon Aero M134D powered multi-barrel machine guns, also known as Miniguns, or equivalent weapons, with deliveries due by October 31, 2029, to the Mosty depot in Mosty and the Szeroki Bór depot in Pisz;
- 11,604 smoke grenades for 76 mm Wegmann launchers on Leopard 2A4/2A5/2PL/2PLM1 tanks, or equivalent systems, with deliveries due by October 31, 2029, to the Szeroki Bór depot in Pisz and the Duninów depot in Chocianów;
- 45,000 rounds of 8.6 mm × 70 (.338 Lapua Magnum) ammunition with a 19.4 g Lock Base projectile, or equivalent ammunition, with deliveries due by October 29, 2027, to the Mosty depot in Mosty.
Dillon Aero M134D machine guns are in service with GROM Military Unit and the Air Component of the Special Operations Component Command. The former signed a 7,995,000 PLN contract with Works 11 on December 2, 2024, for the delivery of ammunition for these weapons.
7.62 mm Dillon Aero M134D multi-barrel machine gun / Photo: Grzegorz Sobczak, MILMAG
It is worth adding that in the case of 8.6 mm × 70 ammunition, an earlier tender conducted by the Armament Agency from October 14, 2024, for the delivery of the same number of rounds was canceled on June 6, 2025. This is therefore already the third attempt to procure this ammunition. In the Polish Armed Forces, it is used by marksmen of the Special Forces, with British Accuracy International AMW-F rifles, French PGM Précision PGM 338 rifles, also known as PGM Mini-Hecate .338, and Finnish SAKO TRG M10 rifles, as well as by the Land Forces and Territorial Defence Forces, which received 150 SAKO TRG M10 rifles in September and October 2017 under the Kij program for an 8.6 mm bolt-action sniper rifle chambered for enhanced ammunition, together with ammunition and a sighting system.
Six of the eight 76 mm Wegmann smoke grenade launchers visible on Leopard 2PL tanks / Photo: PGZ
The 76 mm Wegmann smoke grenade launchers are grouped in sets of eight on both sides of the turrets of Leopard 2 family tanks. They use Rheinmetall DM25 smoke grenades or variants such as the DM35, which generate a smoke screen that masks the tank in the visible-light and infrared spectra, making detection by thermal imaging systems and sights more difficult.