Poland Breaks Ground on Its Homar-K CGR080 Rocket Factory
Poland has broken ground on a factory that will build the rocket ammunition for its Homar-K launcher system at home, cutting its reliance on imports for one of the artillery munitions it is buying in the largest quantities on NATO’s eastern flank.
The ceremony took place on 4 November in Gorzów Wielkopolski. The plant will be run by Hanwha WB Advanced System (Hwbas), a joint venture South Korea’s Hanwha Aerospace formed with Poland’s WB Electronics in 2025. It will produce CGR080 guided rockets, the standard munition for the Homar-K, Poland’s designation for the South Korean K239 Chunmoo multiple rocket launcher.
Polish Deputy Defence Minister Magdalena Sobkowiak-Czarnecka, South Korean Ambassador to Poland Jun Youl Tae, Polish Armament Agency deputy head Robert Frommholz and Gorzów Wielkopolski mayor Jacek Wójcicki attended, alongside executives from both companies. The ceremony’s slogan was “Building Capability. Shaping the Future.”
The facility is not only a production line. It is also meant to host maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) work for the Homar-K system over its entire service life, according to Infodefensa, which first reported the groundbreaking. That combination matters for a NATO member sitting on the alliance’s most exposed border: a domestic repair and resupply base shortens the logistics chain that would otherwise run back to South Korea in a crisis.
The plant traces back to a December 2025 contract between a Hwbas-led consortium and Poland’s Armament Agency for domestically produced CGR080 rockets. Under a separate licensing agreement, Hanwha Aerospace is transferring production processes and engineering know-how to its Polish joint venture, rather than simply shipping finished rounds.
Infodefensa’s report did not disclose the investment figure, the plant’s planned output capacity, how many jobs it will create, or when production will start. Hwbas and the Armament Agency have given no timeline publicly as of the groundbreaking.
Homar-K itself rests on a 2022 framework agreement under which Poland is to field 288 launchers, the first batches delivered directly from South Korea and the remainder built or assembled in Poland. The K239 Chunmoo is a modular system that can fire rockets and short-range ballistic munitions of different calibres from the same launcher, giving it both a close artillery-support role and a deeper-strike one.
Warsaw has pushed defence spending to roughly 4% of GDP since 2022, among the highest shares in NATO, with a large share of that increase funding the localisation clauses in its South Korean deals for the K2 tank, K9 howitzer, FA-50 jet and now Chunmoo ammunition. The Gorzów Wielkopolski plant extends that localisation drive from vehicles and aircraft into guided munitions production, a step Poland has flagged as central to sustaining a rocket artillery force through a prolonged conflict rather than a short one.
Sources
- Infodefensa.com, “Polonia inicia la construcción de una fábrica de cohetes CGR080 surcoreanos para su lanzacohetes Homar-K”, 5 November 2026, https://www.infodefensa.com/texto-diario/mostrar/6079677/polonia-inicia-construccion-fabrica-cohetes-cgr080-surcoreanos-lanzacohetes-homar-k — primary source for the ceremony, attendees and facts used in this article.
