The Ukrainian company A3Tech-Ukraine, which carries out large-scale assembly and partial production of Croatian DOK-ING vehicles, has received a certificate of conformity for the MV-10 heavy demining vehicle. The company has an order for the production of eight such vehicles. The first one, manufactured with funds raised under the UNITED24 initiative, has already been delivered to Ukrainian deminers.
“It is important for us that it is a Ukrainian company that manufactures components and assembles the vehicles that clear our land of mines. The demand for such equipment for humanitarian demining is very high, and we expect that thanks to the support of our partners on the one hand and the capabilities of Ukrainian manufacturers on the other, we will be able to both increase the number of demining machines operating in the fields and improve the quality of their maintenance. We hope that along with the localisation of foreign technologies, there will be an increase in the number of Ukrainian demining developments,” said Yuliia Svyrydenko, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy of Ukraine.
A3tech already manufactures up to 40% of the components for the MV-10 working tool and plans to increase this figure to 100% until the end of the year. Two other Ukrainian companies have been subcontracted to work on these vehicles. They produce some of the components for the machines and the platforms used to transport them. In total, A3tech has the capacity to produce up to 60 MV-10 demining vehicles per year.
Currently, there are 17 DOK-ING MV-10 heavy demining vehicles in operation in Ukraine. The machines are used by the State Emergency Service, the State Special Transport Service and the Swiss Foundation for Mine Action mainly in Mykolaiv, Kherson and Kharkiv regions. As of the end of May, these machines have cleared 850 hectares of Ukrainian land and eliminated more than 4,500 mines, cluster munitions and other types of explosive ordnance. (Government portal)