Poland Breaks Ground on Its First Guided-Rocket Factory for the Homar-K at Gorzów
Gorzów Wielkopolski, 2 July 2026
Key points
- On 2 July 2026 preparatory works began in Gorzów Wielkopolski on Poland's first plant to manufacture the CGR-080 — the 239mm, 80km guided rocket fired by the Homar-K launcher
- The factory is being built by the Hanwha WB Advanced System joint venture (Hanwha Aerospace 51 per cent, WB Electronics 49 per cent) under a December 2025 contract worth PLN 14 billion for 10,000 rockets
- Assembly of the first munitions is to start in 2029 and Polish-made deliveries in 2030, with over 100 components and the transport-launch containers localised
- Homar-K is Poland's licensed version of South Korea's K239 Chunmoo; Polish-made rounds could later supply other operators such as Estonia and Norway
Preparatory works began on 2 July 2026 in Gorzów Wielkopolski on Poland's first factory for the CGR-080 guided rocket, the munition fired by the Homar-K launcher, moving Warsaw from buying rocket artillery to making the rounds it fires.
The plant will produce the CGR-080 — a 239mm guided rocket with an 80-kilometre range — the core effector of the Homar-K, Poland's licensed version of South Korea's K239 Chunmoo multiple rocket launcher on a Polish Jelcz chassis. It is being built by Hanwha WB Advanced System, the joint venture of Hanwha Aerospace (51 per cent) and WB Electronics (49 per cent), under a contract signed with Poland's Armaments Agency in December 2025 worth about PLN 14 billion for 10,000 rockets.
Construction is expected to take over a year. Assembly of the first munitions is slated for 2029 and Polish-made deliveries from 2030, with more than 100 of the rocket's components plus the transport-launch containers eventually made in Poland. The specialist outlet Defence24 notes that Polish-made rounds could in time supply other K239 Chunmoo operators, including Estonia and Norway, both of which signed for the system over the past year.
The groundbreaking extends a pattern in Polish procurement: after buying launchers and rockets abroad at scale, Warsaw is localising the magazine — the consumable that decides how long a rocket-artillery force can fight.
The proprietary read. Launchers are a one-time purchase; rockets are the recurring cost and the binding constraint in a long war, and it is the rockets Poland is now moving onshore. As Signal No. 96 noted, Warsaw is climbing the value chain from operating the system to owning its production — and by localising the round it also positions itself to arm the other European Chunmoo buyers, turning a domestic supply decision into an export lever.
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Sources: Hanwha Aerospace · WB Group · Polish Armaments Agency · Defence24.
First reported in Signal No. 96, 3 July 2026.