Poland is preparing to accelerate work on a domestically developed anti-tank guided missile known as Moskit, after fresh public signals from both industry and government suggested the program is moving toward a production phase. Remigiusz Wilk, communications director at WB Group, posted an image on social media hinting that Moskit manufacturing is coming, summarizing the announcement with the line: “I have good news for the new year.”
Soon after, Deputy Defence Minister Cezary Tomczyk said on 18 December that 120 million złoty will be allocated to Moskit’s development under the PERUN program. The funding decision adds political weight to a project that has been discussed for years as a capability Poland needs urgently, not least because it would reduce reliance on imported anti-armor weapons and strengthen national industrial autonomy in a critical battlefield category.
Moskit has reportedly been under development for six years, led by the Military Institute of Armament Technology (WITU), with WB Group involved in supporting the effort. The system is presented as a modern anti-armor missile designed to compete in performance terms with well-known Western equivalents. According to the parameters cited in Polish defense reporting, Moskit is expected to offer armor penetration in the range of around 700 mm, placing it within the contemporary standard for defeating armored targets.
The missile is also described as capable of engaging both ground and airborne targets, including helicopters, at distances of up to roughly five kilometers. It is expected to use a tandem warhead suited to defeating vehicles equipped with explosive reactive armor, which remains common across many potential threat sets. Target acquisition is said to rely on imagery from an optical head transmitted via a fiber-optic link, while the overall concept also includes a “fire-and-forget” employment mode—an important feature for survivability, because it allows the operator to relocate quickly after launch.
If the program transitions from development into sustained production, Moskit would become another high-profile example of Poland’s broader push to rebuild and expand its domestic defense-industrial base, pairing large-scale foreign procurement with increased investment in homegrown systems. The key test now will be whether the funding injection translates into an accelerated timeline, repeatable industrial output, and a weapon that can be fielded in meaningful numbers rather than remaining a long-running prototype effort.
