Author: Karol
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Nuclear weapons on Polish territory. 2007
Krakow November 26, 2007 No cheap sensation about nuclear weapons in Poland. Two questions. To begin with, I have to answer two questions so that there is no doubt; – Did Poland have nuclear weapons in the second half of the 20th century? – NOPE. – Were nuclear weapons stored in Poland in the second…
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Airbus A-220. 2025
Kraków 2025-06-20 Airbus A-220. The Airbus A-220 is a commercial aircraft, with a medium number of passenger seats and medium range. The aircraft is built in a classic layout; narrow-body, low-wing, classic aircraft tail, powered by two turbofan engines. The aircraft uses American Pratt & Whitney PW1500G engines, which have a gearbox. The aircraft was…
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Boeing AH-64 Apache. 2025
Inowrocław 2025-06-20 Boeing AH-64 Apache for Poland. On September 8, 2022 (Thursday), Minister of National Defense Mariusz Błaszczak announced that the Republic of Poland had submitted an official request to the United States regarding the purchase of 96 Boeing AH-64 E Apache helicopters. Negotiations have begun, fortunately without the participation of Polish-language media, which prefer…
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Dassault Aviation Falcon. 2025
Kraków 2025-06-16 Dassault Aviation Falcon. Dassault Falcon is a brand of luxury, multi-purpose business jets manufactured by the French company Dassault Aviation. Aircraft from this series are mainly used for private and corporate transport, as well as by some governments for VIP transport. The Falcon family of aircraft includes several models that differ in range,…
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Bombardier Global Express. 2025
Kraków 2025-06-15 Bombardier Global Express. Bombardier Global Express is a long-range business jet, “ultra-long-range” class, manufactured by the Canadian company Bombardier Aerospace, currently called Bombardier Aviation. It was designed for comfortable flight over very long distances, for example London – Singapore or New York – Tokyo. The maximum range exceeds 12,000 km. In October 1991,…
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Boeing B-737 MAX. 2025
Kraków 2025-06-15 Return to flight operations B-737-8 MAX: The planes were grounded from March 2019 to March 2021. The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), after a thorough and comprehensive review of the improvements to the Boeing 737-8 MAX aircraft, has cleared the modified version of this aircraft for return to flight operations. According to…
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Airbus A-319. 2025
Kraków 2025-06-15 Airbus A-319 CJ. The Airbus A-319 is a smaller version of the Airbus A-320 transport aircraft. The A-319 aircraft can carry 124 – 156 passengers. The first flight was performed on August 25, 1995. The first aircraft were delivered to Swissair at the beginning of 1996. Airbus had been conducting market research since…
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Mikoyan and Gurevich MiG-29. 1989
Kraków 2007-11-24 History 288 Section 1989-07-31 OKB Mikoyan and Gurevich MiG-29, version 9.12, UB The concept of a fighter. In 1969, the Mikoyan-Gurevich OKB Design Bureau, on its own initiative, began to implement the project of a light front-line fighter, as a complement to the heavier fighter from the Sukhoi OKB, the future Su-27. The…
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PZL WSK Świdnik PZL W-3 Sokół SN-34XP, G-002. 2025
Kraków 2025-06-11 PZL WSK Świdnik PZL W-3 Sokół SN-34XP, G-002. PZL-Sokół helicopter. As we write these sentences (2025), the career of the PZL W-3 Sokół helicopter is slowly coming to an end. Therefore, let us remember that in the times of the Polish People’s Republic, Poland was one of six countries in the world that…
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Combat Open-Air Museum of the 1st Polish Army in Zdbice near Wałcz. 2025.
Walcz 2025-05-31 Combat Open-Air Museum of the 1st Polish Army in Zdbice near Wałcz. Fights for the Pomeranian Wall in 1945. The fights for the Pomeranian Wall in 1945 were one of the important stages of the offensive of the Red Army (Soviet Army) and the Polish People’s Army, in the final phase of World…