WARSAW, Poland — The Polish Ministry of National Defence has awarded contracts worth around 60 billion zloty ($16.5 billion) to buy infantry fighting vehicles, self-propelled howitzers, military vehicles, and self-propelled wheeled mortars, among other weapons, to a group of local defense companies. The purchases will be bankrolled by the European Union’s Security Action for Europe (SAFE) low-cost loan program. At the official signing ceremony held May 30, Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, Polish