Poland and South Korea have signed a €3.3 billion agreement to jointly produce missiles for the HOMAR-K rocket launcher in Poland for the first time.
The Polish State Treasury and a joint consortium of manufacturers – Polish-Korean joint venture Hanwha WB Advanced System and South Korea’s Hanwha Aerospace – inked an implementation agreement for the production of CGR-080 precision-guided missiles with a range of 80 kilometres on Monday evening.
The missiles will be produced in a newly-built factory in the city of Gorzów Wielkopolski, Polish media reported.
Polish Defence Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz described the agreement as a step towards increasing the county’s independence in defence production.
The missiles, scheduled to be delivered from 2030, will be used for the HOMAR-K system, which is a Polish version of the South Korean rocket launcher K239 Chunmoo.
This is the third cooperation between Poland and South Korea on the rocket launcher programme. A first contract, signed in 2022, supplied launcher modules integrated onto Polish-made Jelcz truck chassis along with several thousand precision-guided missiles. A second contract, concluded in April 2024, delivered 72 additional launcher modules and extra missile stocks.
South Korea has become an important defence partner for Poland in recent years, supplying equipment such as fighter jets, artillery, tanks. In August, the two countries signed a multibillion-euro deal for 180 K2 tanks for the Polish armed forces, following an initial order in 2022.
Poland has ramped up its defence spending since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. According to NATO estimates, the country allocated 4.5% of its GDP to defence in 2025, which makes it the biggest spender relative to GDP in the alliance.
(vib)