Thus, in 2028, for the first time in 19 years since the end of PT-91 production, a new domestically produced tank, the K2PL, is expected to leave Polish assembly lines. However, despite plans for up to 1,000 units, only about half are likely to be produced in Poland, with the rest built in South Korea.
The door for russia to threaten Europe broadly with a traditional land war is rapidly slamming shut. That doesn’t mean that political maneuvers by russia won’t be able to open up spaces for armed conflict that russia may be able to exploit, but they will have to be done at careful oblique angles to powers like Poland and Romania that have piles and piles of main battle tanks that make the threat of russian armor look like the brutal suicidal joke it always was.
War may be in Europe’s future, but I doubt russia or the countries that russia fractures into if it collapses will be capable of fighting a land war again like they were capable of in the 20th century. Realistically russia cannot compete with Poland’s tank production alone of K2PLs, they simply outclass russian armor in almost every respect and this is not even accounting for any other European military power.
A good video describing the K2PL