On Wednesday, April 22, 2026, the press office of the 16th Mechanized Division (16. DZ) announced on social media that the engineer battalion of the 9th Armored Cavalry Brigade (9th ACB) had received an MS-20 Daglezja support bridge produced by OBRUM, a Polish Armaments Group (PGZ) company specializing in research and development of mechanical equipment.
Photo: 9. BKPanc.
According to the Armament Agency, this is the tenth MS-20 Daglezja bridge delivered to the military over the past four months. Based on available information, the first two bridges were handed over to the customer on December 29, 2025. The third was then delivered to the 16th Orzysz Engineer Regiment, and the fourth to the 18th Engineer Regiment. Two more were accepted on March 11, followed by additional bridges in the subsequent weeks, including the one discussed here.
It should be recalled that in 2025–2028 OBRUM is to deliver 43 MS-20 Daglezja support bridges to the Polish Armed Forces under a contract worth approximately 767 million PLN gross, signed on October 11, 2023. In the second half of 2025, the company delivered procedural simulators for training in bridge operation.
In parallel with the deliveries, OBRUM has introduced modifications to the MS-20 bridges, adapting them to the latest operational requirements. The modernization program included, among other changes, improvements to the actuator control systems, increasing the reliability and functionality of the equipment. On March 21, 2025, it was also reported that the PM-20 span of the Daglezja bridge had been certified for an increased load capacity of MLC85/133.
The MS-20 Daglezja-S is a support bridge mounted on a truck chassis. The system consists of a Jelcz C662D.43 6×6 tractor unit, a hydraulically driven 6×6 transport semitrailer, a bridge launcher, and a PM-20 bridge span. It provides a crossing over water or terrain obstacles up to 20 m wide. The total weight of the MS-20 support bridge is 47.9 metric tons, while its maximum speed on paved roads is 80 km/h. The system is operated by only two soldiers: a driver and an operator.
The PM-20 span is carried on a special transport semitrailer. The width of the span is adjustable: 3 m in the transport position on the semitrailer and 4 m in the working position over an obstacle. The span is 12.5 m long when folded and 25.5 m long when deployed, including the ramps. The time required to deploy and recover the span is less than 30 minutes to achieve full crossing readiness.
Before the implementation of the current contract, the Polish Armed Forces had operated 12 MS-20 Daglezja support bridges. The prototypes were developed by OBRUM in 2005–2010. Production began two years later in cooperation with Zakłady Mechaniczne Bumar-Łabędy, with two systems delivered in December of the same year. Another 10 systems were ordered on March 4, 2015, under a contract worth 70.68 million PLN gross. Deliveries, delayed against the original schedule, were completed in August 2017. The bridges were delivered to units in Brzeg, Krosno Odrzańskie, Stargard, Chełmno, and Nisko.
Once the current contract is completed, the military will have a total of 55 MS-20 Daglezja bridges. It is worth noting that on October 31, 2018, the then Armament Inspectorate launched a procedure for the delivery of a batch of 10 bridges, but the procedure was canceled on September 9, 2019.
Four export MS-20S bridges were delivered in May 2021 to an undisclosed foreign customer, which, as recently revealed by photographic material, turned out to be Vietnam.
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