Hanwha Sub-Licence Lets Poland Build Homar-K Launcher Spare Parts and Assemble Modules for 290 Launchers
Kielce, 8 September 2026
Key points
- Hanwha Aerospace and the Armaments Agency signed a sub-licence agreement at MSPO on 8 September, Boohwan Lee for Hanwha and Colonel Robert Fromholz for the agency, transferring to the State Treasury the technical documentation and rights to produce selected spare parts for Homar-K launcher modules and to assemble the modules in Poland
- The planned scope runs to hundreds of types of spare parts for the Polish Armed Forces and for other K239 Chunmoo users, plus the development and production of transport-launch containers that would let Homar-K fire Polish-made 122 mm rockets already used by other Polish systems
- The rights cover the 290 launchers on order, 218 under the 2022 executive contract and 72 under the contract of 24 April 2024; the value is undisclosed, and Polish industrial entities are to receive the documentation under separate agreements
- The sub-licence follows the 29 December 2025 contract for CGR-080 guided rocket production in Poland, with factory construction and technology transfer
Hanwha Aerospace and Poland's Armaments Agency signed a sub-licence at MSPO in Kielce on 8 September that transfers the documentation and rights to produce selected spare parts for Homar-K launcher modules and to assemble them in Poland, covering the 290 launchers on order and, by design, the launchers of other K239 Chunmoo users.
The agreement was signed by Boohwan Lee, Hanwha Aerospace's president-designate, and Colonel Robert Fromholz, deputy head of the agency. It defines the documentation and rights Hanwha passes to the State Treasury as the next stage of localisation, aimed at building production, assembly and maintenance competence in Poland. The planned scope covers hundreds of types of spare parts and the transport-launch containers for 122 mm rockets produced in Poland for other Polish launchers, which would add a domestic munition to a launcher that today fires Korean-built rockets. No value was given, and the documentation reaches Polish companies through separate agreements still to be signed.
Homar-K pairs Hanwha's launcher module with a Jelcz chassis and Polish command and control; the fleet stands at 290 launchers across the 2022 contract for 218 and the April 2024 contract for 72. The rocket side of localisation moved first: the contract of 29 December 2025 covers CGR-080 guided rocket production in Poland with a factory and technology transfer, recorded in Großwald's dispatch on the Gorzów plant.
Localisation is moving down the bill of materials, from the rockets to the parts that keep the launchers firing. A spares licence is a sustainment decision: it settles whether 290 launchers are still available in their tenth year without a Korean supply chain, which is a different question from where the rockets are built. The clause extending the parts to other K239 users is the commercially interesting one, because Croatia's government approved 18 Chunmoo launchers with a WB Electronics command system on 4 September, and a Polish second source for parts makes Poland the regional depot for a system it did not design; Signal No. 141 carries the signing alongside the heavy-IFV demonstrator HSW showed at the same show.
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