The Polish Navy’s first indicators intelligence (SIGINT) vessel, ORP Jerzy Różycki, was launched on 1 July 2025 at Remontowa Shipbuilding S.A. in Gdańsk.
The launch ceremony was attended by senior figures from the Polish Ministry of Nationwide Defence, the Armaments Company, the Navy, the Headquarters of Marine Expertise, and the Chief of Reconnaissance and Intelligence Evaluation Directorate (J2), underscoring the vessel’s strategic significance.
Commissioned below the DELFIN programme, the ship is the primary of two deliberate SIGINT platforms designed to boost Poland’s maritime digital intelligence capabilities. Development started with the primary metal lower in April 2023, adopted by keel laying in November that 12 months. The vessel will now enter a fitting-out section the place Saab will set up and combine the complete suite of mission methods, earlier than the ship embarks on sea trials.
Named ORP Jerzy Różycki, the ship honours the famend Polish mathematician and cryptologist who, alongside Marian Rejewski and Henryk Zygalski, performed a essential position in breaking the German Enigma code earlier than the Second World Battle.
“Right now marks a big milestone with the launch of ORP Jerzy Różycki as a testomony to the ability of cooperation and shared imaginative and prescient,” mentioned Micael Johansson, President and CEO of Saab. “This mission exemplifies how nations across the Baltic Sea, with related wants and experiences, can come collectively to develop options that profit us all.”
The DELFIN-class ships are being constructed by Saab as prime contractor, with Remontowa Shipbuilding S.A. chargeable for the hulls and Polish agency MMC contributing to the design. Saab retains full duty for supply and integration of the digital intelligence and mission methods. A number of different corporations from the Polish defence trade are additionally concerned.
The vessels will accumulate a variety of maritime digital intelligence throughout the electromagnetic spectrum, offering the Polish armed forces with a contemporary, sovereign functionality in strategic reconnaissance at sea.