Borsuk

Poland's new amphibious infantry fighting vehicle — the Borsuk ("Badger") is the long-awaited replacement for the thousands of Soviet-era BMP-1s Poland inherited from the Warsaw Pact era. A modern, swimming, tracked fighting vehicle with an unmanned turret carrying a 30mm cannon and Spike anti-tank missiles, it is one of the flagships of Poland's enormous post-2022 military build-up — and, after years of development, it finally began entering Polish Army service in 2025.

Overview

The Borsuk (Polish for "badger") is an amphibious tracked infantry fighting vehicle developed by Huta Stalowa Wola (HSW) for the Polish Army. Its purpose is generational replacement: Poland still fielded large numbers of the obsolete Soviet BWP-1 (a Polish BMP-1), and the Borsuk is the modern, indigenous IFV meant to supersede them. It pairs a new amphibious tracked hull with the Polish ZSSW-30 remote (unmanned) turret — a 30mm Bushmaster II cannon, a 7.62mm coaxial machine gun, and a dual launcher for Spike-LR anti-tank guided missiles — giving Polish mechanized infantry a swimming, well-armed, modern fighting vehicle for the first time. With a framework order on the scale of well over a thousand vehicles, the Borsuk is a centrepiece of Poland's drive to become the most heavily-armed land force in Europe.

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