Poland Orders Warmate 3 Strike Drones to Prepare for High-Intensity Conflicts.

Poland has signed its first executive contract for Warmate 3 loitering munitions, ordering 360 strike drones from WB Group for delivery by the end of 2025. The deal highlights Warsaw’s push to field fast, precision strike systems shaped by battlefield lessons from Ukraine and NATO’s eastern flank.

Poland’s Armament Agency has signed the first executive contract under a long-term framework agreement for nearly 10,000 Warmate loitering munitions, according to information released by WB Group on 11 December 2025. The initial order covers 36 Warmate 3 sets, each consisting of a command element and ten strike drones, with Polish media citing a contract value of roughly 100 million PLN gross and the manufacturer emphasizing that serial production allows delivery in weeks rather than months.
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Warmate 3 is a man-portable loitering munition capable of long-range precision attacks, real-time target confirmation, and operation in GPS-denied environments (Picture source: WB Group).

Warmate 3 is the third generation of WB’s man-portable loitering munition concept, designed to give small units an organic, on-call precision strike that can also serve as a real-time sensor. In November, a WB Group representative told defense media that Warmate 3 can carry a warhead of up to 3 kg and engage targets at distances exceeding 80 km, with a radio line of sight reach cited at 100 km and an operating profile built around a cruising speed of roughly 90 km/h. The same description underlines a multi-layer navigation approach intended to keep the munition effective in GPS-denied conditions, a direct response to the electronic warfare realities seen on Europe’s eastern flank. Polish defense press has also linked Warmate 3 to new, more effective warhead options and greater resistance to jamming compared with earlier variants.

The practical value lies in how Warmate compresses the kill chain. A Warmate class system is launched from a lightweight pneumatic catapult and controlled through a portable ground station with an encrypted, bidirectional data link, allowing operators to adjust routes, loiter, confirm target identity with an electro-optical feed, then commit to a terminal dive attack. WB’s published technical data for the baseline Warmate concept describes a small electric-powered air vehicle in the 5.7 kg class with a 30 km operational range and up to 60 minutes endurance, highlighting the family’s emphasis on low acoustic signature and rapid deployment. Integration is equally important. Warmate is designed to operate within WB Group’s broader digital battlefield architecture, notably the TOPAZ artillery command and fire control system and the FlyEye mini UAV. This enables a Polish-style sensor-to-shooter loop where reconnaissance drones find, classify, and hand off targets to the loitering munition for immediate engagement without external fire support.

Poland’s requirement is driven by geography, tempo, and lessons learned from Ukraine. Facing a heavily militarized corridor stretching from Kaliningrad through Belarus and a battlefield defined by dispersed formations, decoys, and mobile air defense systems, Warsaw needs precision effects that are cheaper than cruise missiles, faster to employ than artillery tasking cycles, and more flexible than many anti-tank guided missiles. Warmate 3 offers tactical commanders the ability to wait for a high-value target to appear, strike from unpredictable angles that complicate armor protection, and prosecute fleeting targets such as short-range air defense launchers or electronic warfare vehicles before they can relocate.

The broader May 2025 framework agreement, structured to allow repeated executive orders for the newest Warmate iterations through 2035, also reflects a strategic choice. Beyond battlefield utility, it anchors sovereign production capacity for loitering munitions inside Poland, reinforcing national resilience in a prolonged crisis. In that sense, the first Warmate 3 delivery is not only a capability milestone for the Polish Armed Forces but a signal of how Warsaw intends to fight and sustain high-intensity conflict on NATO’s eastern flank.