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Polish and self-propelled
His first experience of action came in the Polish Campaign, followed by the Battle of France as a commander of the new self-propelled assault guns, the Sturmgeschütz III Ausf.
* N-22 ( radiolocation vehicle ), a Polish radiolocation vehicle based on Dana self-propelled howitzer and used for locating aircraft flying at low altitudes
As of now Polish Army operates 200 BRDM-2s, 120 BRDM-2s modernized to BRDM-2M-96, BRDM-2M-96i, BRDM-2M-97 " Żbik-B " and BRDM-2M-98 " Żbik-A " level, 12 BRDM-2s modernized to BRDM-2M-96ik " Szakal " level, 100 9P133 " Malyutka " and 18 9P148 " Konkurs " tank destroyers, a dozen of BRDM-2RS NBC reconnaissance vehicles, an unknown number of 9K31 Strela-1 self-propelled surface-to-air missile launchers as well as BRDM-2 R-1A and BRDM-2 R-5 command vehicles.
The PZA Loara ( Polish: Przeciwlotniczy Zestaw Artyleryjski or " anti-aircraft artillery system ") is a Polish armored radar-directed self-propelled anti-aircraft gun system.
As such, the Grom missile is used by other surface-to-air defence systems of Polish design, including ZSU-23-4MP Biała, ZUR-23-2KG and POPRAD self-propelled artillery system.

Polish and anti-aircraft
Moreover, the Polish cavalry brigade order of battle of 1939 included, apart from the mounted soldiers themselves, light and heavy machine guns ( wheeled ), Anti-tank rifle, model 35, anti-aircraft weapon, artillery like Bofors 37 mm anti tank gun or light and scout tanks, etc.
Ninety were shot down by anti-aircraft fire, and, due to the modesty of Polish pilots, there is a deficit of 70 unclaimed kills.
* Grom ( missile ), a Polish anti-aircraft missile
However, heavy losses in Polish fighter aircraft meant that by 6 September the air defense of Warsaw was in the hands of the 40 mm and 75 mm anti-aircraft guns of the Warsaw Defense Command.
The Polish forces defending the fortress included the armoured train ' Śmierć ' ( death ), and the Modlin anti-aircraft battery was credited with shooting down more Luftwaffe planes than any other in the entire September campaign.
Seven Polish ZSU-57-2s are preserved, one at the Lubuskie Military Museum in Drzonów, one in Wicko Morskie, the largest anti-aircraft artillery firing range in Poland, one at the Land Forces Museum in Warsaw, one at the History and Tradition of Suvalkai Soldiers Museum in Suwalszczyzna, one in Koszalin and two at the Polish Army Museum in Warsaw.
Polish NSV on an anti-aircraft mount
* Grom ( missile )-a Polish anti-aircraft missile

Polish and guns
The Polish side suffered at least 100 killed in action, military and civil, but losses still remain uncertain in detail ( Soviet sources claim 644 killed and 1543 captives with many guns and machine guns etc.
When captured by the Germans, the French guns were designated 7. 5cm GebK 237 ( f ); the Yugoslav guns were designated 7. 5cm GebK 283 ( j ); and Polish guns were possibly designated as 7. 5cm GebK M. 19 ( p ).
The Polish cavalry of the Polish-Soviet War often used all kinds of machine guns available, including the Maxim, Schwarzlose MG M. 07 / 12, Hotchkiss machine gun and Browning machine gun.
The equipment of those troops was in poor shape, consisting of obsolete weapons from various nations, with French, Polish, Soviet, Italian and Czech guns, artillery and mortars.
The Polish Army, for example, employed guns made in five countries, and rifles manufactured in six, each using different ammunition.
It also manufactured Bofors 37 mm guns, used by the Polish Army in 1939.
In the corners of the square machine guns were put on cars, and behind them horses were kept that belonged to the Polish unit.
In 1939 the Polish army had 1, 374 of these guns, making it by far the most numerous artillery piece in Polish service.
Many were captured by Germany during the Fall of France in 1940, in addition to Polish guns captured in 1939.
* Battle of Somosierra ( November 30, 1808 ): During the Peninsular War Napoleon overwhelmed the Spanish positions in a combined arms attack, charging the Polish Chevau-légers of the Imperial Guard at the Spanish guns while French infantry advanced up the slopes.
In spite of incomplete mobilization, around 4 thousand Polish partisans, supported by two anti-tank guns and few mortars attacked Germans ' lines.
The Polish guns were actively used during the German and Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939.
;: Used Polish guns captured in 1939 as 3, 7 cm PaK 36 ( p ) and Danish guns captured in 1940 as 3, 7 cm PaK 157 ( d ).
;: Several dozens of Polish guns fell into Soviet hands.
:::::< sup > 1 </ sup > One of the planes was shot down by Polish troops with hand guns on August 26.
Thanks to the close ties with the Związek Walki Zbrojnej and then the AK ( mainly through Iwański's Security Corps, the Polish underground police force ), the ŻZW received a large number of guns and armaments, as well as training of their members by professional officers.

Polish and 10th
The historically recorded Polish state begins with the rule of Mieszko I in the second half of the 10th century.
During Polish rule of the area in the late 10th century, the chronicle of Thietmar of Merseburg ( 975-1018 ) mentions salsa Cholbergiensis as the see of the Diocese of Kołobrzeg, set up during the Congress of Gniezno in 1000 and placed under the Archdiocese of Gniezno.
In the 10th century Silesia was incorporated into the early Polish state, but it later broke into independent duchies, coming under increasing Czech and German influence.
* Sośnica Gliwice – women's handball team playing in Polish Ekstraklasa Women's Handball League: 10th place in 2003 / 2004 season.
It became a major center of defense industry, with PZL Rzeszów opened there in 1937, it also was a home to a large garrison of the Polish Army, with the 10th Motorized Cavalry Brigade stationed there.
In the 10th century Pomerania was conquered by the Polish dukes Mieszko I and Bolesław the Brave, who established a bishopric in the nearby Kołobrzeg in 1000, but the area was soon lost to Poland and Christianity.
Although the capital of the voivodship was Lwów ( see: Lwów Voivodeship ), Przemyśl recovered its nodal position as a seat of local church administration, as well as the garrison of the 10th Corps of the Polish Army-a staff unit charged with organising the defence of roughly 10 % of Poland.
Bóbr (, ) is a river which runs through the north of the Czech Republic and the southwest of Poland, a left tributary of the Oder River, with a length of ( 2 in Czech Republic, 270 in Poland, 10th longest Polish river ) and a basin area of ( 46 in Czech Republic and 5, 830 in Poland ).
* 101 was the tail number of a Polish Air Force Tu-154, which crashed on the 10th April 2010 whilst on its final approach to Smolensk North Airport killing all aboard including president Lech Kaczyński and his wife.
Maczek's division had the crucial role of closing the pocket at the escape route of those German divisions, hence the fighting was absolutely desperate and the 2nd Polish Armoured Regiment, 24th Polish Lancers and 10th Dragoons supported by the 8th and 9th Infantry Battalions took the brunt of German attacks trying to break free from the pocket.
* 10th Polish Dragoons Regiment ( 10 pułk dragonów zmotoryzowanych )-Lt. Col.
* 10th Polish Mounted Rifle Regiment ( 10 pułk strzelców konnych ) ( amoured reconnaissance equipped with Cromwell tanks )-Maj. J. Maciejowski
During the 10th century, their territory was conquered by another West Slavic tribe, the Polans settling in the adjacent Greater Polish land around Poznań and Gniezno and upon the death of Duke Mieszko I of Poland in 992, the Kujawy lands were part of his Civitas Schinesghe as circumscribed in the Dagome iudex papal regesta.
At midnight on the 10th and 11 May 1918 German troops assaulted Polish units near Kaniv ( Polish: Kaniów ).
He lived in the nearby Chateau de Pignerolle from 2nd December 1939 until moving on the 10th June 1940 to London, where he joined Władysław Sikorski and Stanisław Mikołajczyk in the relocated Polish government in exile.
10th August 2011 – After a twenty-two year absence the Polish national team returns to Lubin to take on Georgia in a friendly international.
10th place in Polish Volleyball League.
Poznań, today Poland's fifth largest city, is also one of the country's oldest cities, and was an important political and religious center in the early Polish state of the 10th century.
* 10th place in Polish Ekstraklasa ( Premiership ).
Its initial objective was to drive from Silesia towards Warsaw ( 8th Army and 10th Army ), and to destroy the Polish forces around Kraków ( 14th Army ).
As a stop-gap measure before a new helmet was developed, the General Staff decided to issue M1918 helmets to the 10th Motorized Cavalry Brigade, which used them during the Polish Defensive War.
* Battle of Ushant ( 1944 ), a battle among the British, Canadian and Polish destroyers of the 10th Flotilla and the German destroyers of the 8th Narvik Flotilla, won by the allies

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