“Lower temperature and increased humidity: the people’s deputy about the conclusions of the commission regarding the abnormal triggering of 120-mm mines. The interdepartmental commission established that the reasons for the abnormal triggering of 120-mm mines are a decrease in temperature and increased humidity. The defective batch of mines was recalled to the plant for replacement.”, — write on: unn.ua
The People’s Deputy confirmed that a number of unusual activations of mines, which were supplied by certain manufacturers for the security and defense sector, were detected.
An interdepartmental commission was formed, which included representatives of the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Strategy and Industry, and representatives of the components of the security and defense sector. The commission found out the reasons. The corresponding report of this commission was sent to the Committee on National Security and Development. I cannot divulge the details, but in general it has been found that the main reasons are a decrease in temperature and increased humidity. In dry weather, these mines did not fail
According to him, all the mines from the batch were recalled to the factory and the manufacturer undertook to supply new mines in the near future, instead of the withdrawn ones, and they “will undergo a thorough additional examination.”
“I will not name the number of mines. These are all the mines of the batch that had an abnormal detonation. The number is confidential information. The company is already fulfilling its obligations to replace these mines,” said the People’s Deputy.
According to him, determining whether this is an offense is the job of law enforcement agencies.
“To say that the plant was manufacturing incorrectly is a serious enough accusation, let the law enforcement agencies deal with it,” said Venislavskyi.
At the same time, he emphasized that there are no systemic problems with ammunition.
There are a number of factors with the conditions of manufacture and storage. All these reasons are in the report of the commission. There are no systemic problems with this situation, but in the future more attention will be paid to check the quality of mines, conditions of manufacture, storage and use
Venislavskyi noted that the facts with the freelance detonation of mines began in November.
Also, in one of the brigades working in the Pokrovsky direction, Suspilny confirmed information about such incidents, in particular in November. According to the source, all cases really happened with mines of the same batch.
One of the officials of the Ministry of Defense told “Suspilno” that they received hundreds of thousands of ammunition from the manufacturer, and problems arose with one batch. At the same time, the examination will take some time, since there are many sub-manufacturers of ammunition.
Addition
The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reported that the reasons for the unusual detonation of 120 mm mines are being investigated by an interdepartmental commission. Currently, the use of ammunition has been suspended, and the defective batch of mines has been removed. According to the preliminary results of the investigation, the mines do not work due to possible causes of defects, in particular, low-quality powder charges or violation of storage conditions. Based on this fact, the SBI started criminal proceedings.
Context
Earlier in the mass media there was information that Ukrainian fighters are using defective mortar mines manufactured by Ukroboronprom. The soldiers at the front complain that the ammunition is of low quality.