“The Ministry of Defense is investigating the causes of the abnormal detonation of 120 mm mines. About 24,000 of the 54,000 120-mm mines suspected of malfunctioning are subject to return, which is less than 1% of the production this year. This was announced by the Minister of Strategic Industries of Ukraine Herman Smetanin. Since the beginning of 2024, defense enterprises of Ukraine have put up”, — write on: ua.news
The Ministry of Defense is investigating the causes of the abnormal detonation of 120 mm mines. About 24,000 of the 54,000 120-mm mines suspected of malfunctioning are subject to return, which is less than 1% of the production this year.
This was announced by the Minister of Strategic Industries of Ukraine Herman Smetanin.
Since the beginning of 2024, defense enterprises of Ukraine have delivered millions of artillery and mortar rounds to the Defense Forces, scaling up production as quickly as possible and introducing new technologies.
Along with this, on November 20 of this year, one of the manufacturing plants received a claim for 120-mm mines from the Logistics Forces Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in accordance with the established procedure.
“The working group worked during November 11-15 and came to the conclusion that there is indeed an abnormal operation of several components of the product. As a result, some of the shots turned out to be of inadequate quality. To date, out of batches totaling 54,000 mines suspected of malfunctioning, about 24,000 mines are subject to return, which is less than 1% of the products produced this year,” Smetanin wrote.
In the working order, thanks to the interaction of the Ministry of Strategy and Industry and the Ministry of Defense, the development of the mentioned shortcomings was already in the works, and the mines of the last batches were being re-checked, he noted.
On November 8, an order was issued to conduct an inspection with the involvement of officials from the Ministry of Strategy and Industry, the Ministry of Defense, the manufacturing plant, the Central Research Institute of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and the Security Service of Ukraine.
In accordance with the Act of the commission, in particular, the following measures are taken:
- a low-quality batch of 120-mm mines is being replaced;
- manufacturing plants strengthen product quality control at all stages of production, starting with the receipt of purchased components.
To date, the Ministry of Defense withdraws products from the specified batch according to the established procedure, and the manufacturing plant replaces them with high-quality samples.
“At the same time, all enterprises of the Ukrainian defense industry continue to work as usual: to manufacture and supply high-quality weapons and military equipment to the Defense Forces. The situation surrounding low-quality mines also became an additional incentive for all manufacturers to be more careful about quality control of their products at all stages of production,” Smetanin said.
It was previously reported that the Ministry of Defense has been actively investigating the causes of the abnormal activation of 120 mm mines for several weeks. The use of the batch of ammunition in the Armed Forces was suspended, the mines were removed for research.
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