Polish arms exports and imports in 2025

The United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) has published a report from the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms (UNROCA) detailing Poland’s arms exports and imports in 2025. The Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs submitted the country’s declaration on the matter by the May 31 deadline.

The Mesko Piorun man-portable air-defense system – one of Poland’s leading arms exports last year / Photo: Jakub Link-Lenczowski, MILMAG

Exports of major conventional weapons:

• 2 T-72 tanks to the Czech Republic;
• 3 Leopard 2A4 tanks to Ukraine (this may have involved a sale or transfer from Polish stocks, an exchange or partial compensation arrangement, for example for spare parts to be cannibalized, or another type of transfer that the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs considered subject to reporting – editor’s note);
• 120 various armored vehicles to Ukraine (the types were not specified; these may have included vehicles such as the Mista Oncilla 4×4 L2014-UD previously sold to Ukraine);
• 1 122 mm 2S1 Goździk self-propelled howitzer to Ukraine;
• 48 Piorun man-portable air-defense systems (MANPADS) to Belgium;
• 33 Piorun MANPADS to Estonia;
• 202 Piorun MANPADS to Lithuania. No contract for the delivery of these systems to Lithuania had previously been announced. Lithuania has expressed interest in the Piorun, but had previously ordered the older Grom MANPADS;
• 42 Piorun MANPADS to Norway;
• 20 Piorun MANPADS to Sweden;
• 296 various multirotor unmanned aircraft to Ukraine.

Small-arms exports:

• revolvers and self-loading pistols: 50 to Armenia, 6 to Indonesia, 3 to Sweden, 19 to Switzerland, 120 to Ukraine, 4 to Italy, and 552 to the United States;
• carbines and rifles: 400 to Guatemala, 5 to Indonesia, 5 to Canada, 3 to Norway, 1,262 to Ukraine, 11 to the United Kingdom, 3 to Vietnam, 4 to Italy, and 15 to the United States;
• submachine guns: 69 to Romania, 150 to Ukraine, 1 to the United States, and 9 to the United Arab Emirates;
• automatic rifles: 3 to Indonesia and 2 to Switzerland;
• light machine guns: 1,191 to Ukraine.

Light-weapons exports:

• heavy machine guns: 287 to Ukraine;
• under-barrel grenade launchers: 2,200 to Ukraine;
• portable anti-tank missile launchers, grenade launchers, and missile systems: 130 to Jordan, 36 to South Korea, and 2,000 to Ukraine;
• other: 2 to Ukraine.

Small-arms imports:

• revolvers and self-loading pistols: 1,906 from Austria, 30 from Brazil, 14 from Finland, 599 from Israel, 274 from Switzerland, 3,074 from Türkiye, 15 from Ukraine, 6 from Italy, and 9,432 from the United States;
• carbines and rifles: 300 from Brazil, 10 from Finland, 2 from Israel, 41 from Norway, 9 from Switzerland, 14 from Türkiye, 58 from the United Kingdom, 51 from Italy, and 780 from the United States;
• submachine guns: 20 from Israel, 1 from Switzerland, 318 from Türkiye, and 4 from Ukraine;
• automatic rifles: 10 from South Korea, 29 from Switzerland, 5 from Türkiye, 1 from the United States, and 3 from Ukraine.

Light-weapons imports:

• recoilless anti-tank weapons: 504 from Sweden. The report did not identify the type, but these were Carl-Gustaf M4 systems from the 6,000 ordered;
• portable anti-tank missile launchers, grenade launchers, and missile systems: 7,680 from Norway. The report did not identify the type, but these were Nammo M72 EC Mk 1 disposable anti-tank weapons from the several thousand ordered.