Manufacturer catalog

Huta Stalowa Wola

Huta Stalowa Wola is a Polish defense manufacturer based in Stalowa Wola that produces artillery, mortar, armored, and engineering systems for the catalog.

5 weapons

Huta Stalowa Wola traces its modern identity to the Southern Works, which reopened on 5 January 1945 and were renamed Huta Stalowa Wola on 20 March 1948. The company’s own history presents that path as the start of a long industrial line that moved from early artillery production into broader defense manufacturing.

Today HSW is majority-owned by Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa S.A. and focuses on artillery, armored, and engineering equipment for the Polish Armed Forces and export customers. In this catalog it matters because it anchors the builder facet behind the catalog's Krab howitzer and related HSW systems.

Artillery systemsMortarsArmored vehiclesEngineering equipment

Notable Systems

AHS Krab, 155 mm tracked self-propelled howitzer, Artillery

AHS Krab

155 mm tracked self-propelled howitzer

HSW's official offer and news pages identify the Krab as a 155 mm self-propelled howitzer that entered serial production at the company.

Sources: Official website, Krab serial-production news
M120 Rak, 120 mm turreted self-propelled mortar system, Artillery

Rak

120 mm turreted self-propelled mortar system

The company's official product and news pages place Rak among HSW's core mortar systems.

Sources: Official website

Borsuk

HSW's defense-sector portal lists Borsuk among the company's representative products and services.

Sources: Polish Defence Companies Portal

ZSSW-30

HSW's defense-sector portal lists the ZSSW-30 remote turret system among representative products and services.

Sources: Polish Defence Companies Portal

Baobab-K

HSW's defense-sector portal lists the Baobab-K scattered mine laying vehicle among representative products and services.

Sources: Polish Defence Companies Portal

Manufacturer History

  1. Southern Works reopened

    HSW's official history says the Southern Works were re-opened on 5 January 1945 after the wartime interruption.

    Sources: History

  2. Renamed Huta Stalowa Wola

    The company says that on 20 March 1948, on the tenth anniversary of its establishment, the Southern Works adopted the name Huta Stalowa Wola.

    Sources: History

  3. Reorganized as a State Treasury company

    HSW's history page says the plant was transformed into a capital group in 1991 and became a sole-shareholder company of the State Treasury.

    Sources: History

  4. Construction machinery production began

    The company says production in the construction-machinery branch began in 1997 after the civilian division was developed from earlier industrial infrastructure.

    Sources: History

  5. First serial Krab howitzers handed over

    HSW announced the delivery of the first serial 155 mm Krab howitzers to the Polish Armed Forces, marking the start of series production.

    Sources: Krab serial-production news

Website links
Official websiteCompany historyOwnership structureContact

Official HSW pages use Huta Stalowa Wola S.A., HSW S.A., and HSW interchangeably; this profile normalizes those spellings under the catalog builder facet. The 1938 founding year is inferred from official anniversary and history pages that place the 1948 renaming on the company's tenth anniversary and mark the 85th anniversary in 2023.

Manufacturer Sources

  • Official websitePublisher: Huta Stalowa Wola | Note: Supports the public company name, the official site, and the current defense-industrial framing of HSW's work. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • Our missionPublisher: Huta Stalowa Wola | Note: Supports the company's mission to supply the Polish Armed Forces with modern equipment and its current public ownership framing. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • HistoryPublisher: Huta Stalowa Wola | Note: Supports the 1945 reopening of the Southern Works, the 1948 renaming, the 1991 restructuring, and later production milestones in HSW's history. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • Ownership structurePublisher: Huta Stalowa Wola | Note: Supports the current ownership structure showing Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa S.A. as the controlling shareholder and the State Treasury as a minority shareholder. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • Polish Defence Companies PortalPublisher: Polish Defence Companies Portal | Note: Supports the Stalowa Wola address, the land-segment defense role, and representative product families such as artillery, mortars, armored vehicles, and engineering equipment. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • Krab serial-production newsPublisher: Huta Stalowa Wola | Note: Supports the 2019 Krab serial-production milestone and the company's artillery manufacturing role. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • File:Budynek Dyrekcji Naczelnej Huty Stalowa Wola.jpgPublisher: Wikimedia Commons | Note: Supports image provenance and reuse context for the front office building photo used to represent HSW's administrative headquarters; the file page states the work is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. | Accessed: 2026-06-21

Produced weapons

Category

Armored Vehicles

Troop carriers, infantry fighting vehicles, and protected mobility.

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Waran 4x4, 4x4 tactical multipurpose armored vehicle, Armored VehiclesWaran 4x44x4 tactical multipurpose armored vehicleBuilt in: Poland / Czech RepublicWaran 4x4 is Huta Stalowa Wola's Polish tactical multipurpose armored vehicle based on a Czech Tatra-derived 4x4 chassis architecture. Open sources document it as a Polish Armed Forces platform for Gladius drone-system vehicles, artillery command and communications roles, and future support vehicles for WR-40 Langusta rocket artillery, but direct evidence of Waran use in the 2014 Russia-Ukraine War was not verified.

Category

Artillery

Tube artillery, rocket artillery, and long-range ground fires.

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AHS Krab, 155 mm tracked self-propelled howitzer, Artillery2014 Russia-Ukraine WarAHS Krab155 mm tracked self-propelled howitzerBuilt in: PolandThe AHS Krab is a Polish 155 mm tracked self-propelled howitzer built by Huta Stalowa Wola around a NATO-standard 52-caliber gun, an AS-90 Braveheart turret lineage, a K9-derived tracked chassis, and the TOPAZ fire-control ecosystem. In Ukrainian service it gives artillery units a mobile Western-caliber gun able to fire standard and precision 155 mm ammunition, displace after missions, and operate in counter-battery-threatened sectors of the 2014 Russia-Ukraine War.

Category

Support Equipment

Transport, logistics, recovery, command, engineering, and other enabling equipment.

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LPG WDSz command-staff vehicle, Tracked artillery command-staff vehicle, Support Equipment2014 Russia-Ukraine WarLPG WDSz command-staff vehicleTracked artillery command-staff vehicleBuilt in: PolandThe LPG WDSz is a Polish tracked command-staff vehicle built by Huta Stalowa Wola for the Regina fire module that fields AHS Krab 155 mm self-propelled howitzers. It uses the LPG light tracked chassis as a protected command, communications, and fire-control node rather than as a primary weapon, and Ukrainian reporting documented the type in service with Krab batteries after Poland supplied Krab-related equipment during the full-scale phase of the 2014 Russia-Ukraine War.