First Deputy Prime Minister — Minister of Economy Yuliya Svyridenko reported that Ukraine is expanding the production of equipment for demining, and also spoke about the prospects in this direction.
First Deputy Prime Minister — Minister of Economy Yuliya Svyridenko reported that Ukraine is expanding the production of equipment for demining, and also spoke about the prospects in this direction.
«Supporting the Ukrainian manufacturer of machines for humanitarian demining has a significant economic effect — 40% of the cost is returned to the state budget in the form of taxes and fees,» Yulia Svyridenko said during the second forum on demining Ukraine.
The minister added that in the future it could become a powerful export position.
Among the measures that expand the scope of demining in Ukraine:
Domestic manufacturers will be stimulated with the help of a 15% compensation program for the purchase of Ukrainian machinery and equipment. The principle «Support Ukraine with Ukrainians» has also been implemented — agencies of the UN system will buy equipment in Ukraine.
A separate achievement in the development of this direction, which Yuliya Svyridenko mentioned, is the localization of production in Ukraine by the Croatian company DOK-ING, which has already opened an office here.
The government has also approved the procedure for certifying mechanized demining equipment according to international standards, and the first DOK-ING machine has already been certified according to the new MV-4 standard.
The demining machine «Snakes» of the Ukrainian company Rover Tech has already successfully passed tests at the training ground and received a certificate of conformity. It can operate in conditions of low and medium vegetation and is capable of destroying anti-personnel and anti-tank mines, as well as removing stretch marks.
Plans to start production of demining machines in Ukraine became known last fall. It was about localization of Slovak Bozena and Croatian DOK-ING. Mechanized complexes «DOK-ING» MV-4 and MV-10 of the manufacturer from Croatia were already used for demining in the Kherson region.
In April, it becameknown that the DOK-ING MV-4 demining machine, the production of which is already partially localized in Ukraine, successfully passed the test.
In another month, the Ukrainian company A3tech received a certificate of conformity of the DOK-ING MV-4 light demining machine, which will allow the manufacturing company to start serial production. In addition, in the near future, it plans to test the MV-10 heavy demining machine, and then proceed to industrial production.
Ukrainian manufacturers of equipment are also developing on the market. Earlier we wrote that the Ministry of Defense has put into operation an unmanned multi-purpose transporter: what is known about BoarTAC. At the end of September, it became known that a new method of mechanized demining was developed in Ukraine — using Starlink and not sensitive to enemy EW. A new method of mechanized demining is being used , which allows at least 10 hectares of land to be cleared of mines per day.
The MP-3101 soil preparation machine was developed on the basis of one of the Kharkiv enterprises and a scientific organization. As it became known at the end of November, everything was manufactured and handed over for use by 7 machines. After their practical application and analysis, a more modern model of a demining machine was created taking into account foreign developments.
