RE: Get them while they're hot!

["Dom de Bechi" <dddl21455@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That's the cost of joining NATO. They're really struggling with the price of
modernising their military at the moment. Something like 30% of tanks and
combat aircraft are grounded due to a lack of spares and the cost of
converting to NATO calibre smallarms is crucifying them too.

-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher J. Kracik [mailto:kracikcj@home.com]
Sent: 10 January 2002 21:16
To: ME Mailing List
Subject: Get them while they're hot!


Washington Times
January 9, 2002
Pg. 13

Poland To Auction Old Soviet Tanks

WARSAW - The Polish military announced yesterday an auction of aging
Soviet-designed T-55 tanks for use to combat the recent heavy snowfall that
has paralyzed much of the country.

Offered at a price of $6,865 apiece, the tanks "could be utilized against
snow or fires, or to build dikes to prevent floods," said the military's
property agency, which is charged with selling surplus equipment.

The T-55 weighs in at 36 tons and can attain a maximum speed of 30 mph.

"Considering the difficult weather conditions, it is a good time for the
sale," the agency's spokesman Wieslaw Rozbicki was quoted as saying by the
Polish news agency PAP.

Heavy snowfall paralyzed traffic throughout Poland last week.



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