Hanwha Aerospace breaks ground on Chunmoo missile plant in Poland

Hanwha Aerospace has started building a factory in Poland to make guided missiles for its Chunmoo multiple rocket launcher, the company said Thursday. The plant takes its defense partnership with Poland beyond exports and into local production. The Korean defense firm held a groundbreaking ceremony Wednesday in Gorzow Wielkopolski, western Poland, for a plant that will be run by Hanwha WB Advanced Systems, its joint venture with Polish defense company WB Group. It will be Hanwha Aerospace’s first guided missile production facility outside Korea. About 250 government and industry officials from both countries attended. The plant will sit on a site of about 1.16 million square meters and is set to be completed in 2028. It will produce the CGR-080, a missile with a range of about 80 kilometers, for the Homar-K, the Polish version of the truck-mounted Chunmoo. Once technology transfer, testing and certification are complete, the venture plans to begin initial production in late 2029 and full-scale production in 2030. The project is expected to create more than 200 jobs and to buy parts an