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Poland's WB Electronics unveiled the Warmate 30 loitering munition and a new Gladius 2 reconnaissance-strike battery fire module at MSPO 2026 in Kielce. The Warmate 30 extends range and payload over earlier variants. WB has already delivered four Gladius battery fire modules to the Polish Land Forces.
KNDS and Polish defence firm WB Group signed a memorandum of understanding at MSPO 2026 to integrate the KNDS 105 mm LG light artillery system with WB's Topaz fire-control system for the Polish Armed Forces. KNDS described the initiative as marking the return of 105 mm artillery, which had been largely displaced by heavier systems in recent decades.
WB Group introduced the Warmate 30, the latest member of its loitering munition family, at MSPO 2026. The system is designed to detect and engage high-value, time-sensitive targets at extended range. No performance figures or contract details were provided.
A fire broke out overnight Sunday at a WB Electronics facility in Skarżysko-Kamienna, Poland, in the plant's assembly department. Local fire services have not ruled out arson. The incident adds to a pattern of fires and suspected sabotage at European defense manufacturers in 2026, with facilities in Germany, the UK, and the Baltic states previously affected.
Why it matters: Poland's defense industrial base is now absorbing the same hybrid pressure that has already hit Western European plants — a geographic spread that suggests coordination rather than coincidence.
A fire destroyed a warehouse building in Lublin, Poland, on Sunday afternoon, gutting facilities owned by JFG Composites, a subcontractor to Leonardo's PZL-Świdnik helicopter plant. A second fire at a WB Electronics drone parts facility occurred within 24 hours. Polish authorities have not ruled out arson in either incident.
Why it matters: Poland is absorbing a sustained pattern of fires and sabotage at defence sites—if Russia is behind these incidents, Moscow is demonstrating it can disrupt NATO's eastern industrial base at will, and Warsaw's counter-intelligence apparatus has not yet found a way to stop it.