Polish military units have signed 3.56 million złoty (about $907,000) of contracts since October 2025 for 3D printers, tools and parts to build drones themselves. That is FlightBrief’s count of the award notices on Poland’s public procurement platform. Thirteen military buyers have put such orders out to tender, the latest on 30 October.
The buying follows a decision by Defence Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz. The General Staff announced it on 27 June 2025: a pilot programme for making drones by 3D printing in selected units, running to the end of 2026. It said the aim was a fast and cheap source of drones, with the best methods then rolled out across the armed forces.
What the units are buying
The tenders call the workshops “additive printing laboratories”. They order 3D printers and filament, workbenches, oscilloscopes, soldering stations and hand tools. One supply unit in Toruń listed 48 items, from brushless motors and flight controllers to 7-inch and 10-inch frames, video transmitters, FPV goggles and thermal cameras.
Most of the buyers are the army’s regional supply units, which buy for the bases around them. Three named units ordered directly: the special forces Commando Unit in Lubliniec, the 22nd Tactical Air Base in Malbork and a unit in Gdynia. The Commando Unit’s notice of 2 October 2025 is the earliest.
One firm won most of it
X3D, a 3D-printer dealer based in Bytów in Pomerania, signed 2.45 million złoty of the total, or 69%. It won work from ten of the eleven buyers that have signed contracts. The only exception, a supply unit in Zamość, gave its whole 279,212 złoty order to AZ IMEX.
The orders are small. The largest single contract, signed by the supply unit in Sulęcin in May 2026, was 333,743 złoty, about $85,000. The award notices split the orders into 204 separately priced parts. Only 129 of them ended in a signed contract.
The rest were cancelled. The most common reasons in the notices were that every bid was rejected, or that the chosen supplier did not sign. In Toruń’s 2026 tender, 18 of its 21 parts went unawarded.
The supply unit in Rząska, near Kraków, published the newest tender on 30 October. It is for parts and materials to build drones of a type it calls “Hunter Killer”. Bids are due on 13 November.
