In 2024, the Swiss company Global Clearance Solutions (GCS) will increase the number of remote-controlled mechanical demining platforms supplied to Ukraine to 70 units.

GCS announced this in its X (Twitter) account.

The company reportedly plans to increase the number to 25 vehicles in the last quarter of 2023, 40 in the spring of 2024, and 70 by mid-2024.

The company’s GCS-200 demining platform can clear an area of explosive ordnance, carry out light excavation, transport cargo, dig up soil, and uproot trees.

The GCS-200 consists of a crawler tractor and attachments. The standardized mounting interface makes it easy to connect and disconnect the working tools in just a few minutes.

Militarnyi recently reported that the Swiss company Global Clearance Solutions, a manufacturer of robotic demining platforms, has opened a service and maintenance facility in Kyiv.

Florian Loeffler, GCS Technical Support Team Lead, was excited to welcome the facility and the continued partnership with SESU, Nibulon, and other Ukrainian organizations to meet the challenge of eliminating explosive threats and creating safe environments.

Prior to that, the company’s initiative specialist was conducting the repairs using a mobile workshop.

At the beginning of October, Militarnyi reported that Nibulon received its first mine-clearing vehicle from Global Clearance Solutions.

The German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the German State Development Bank (KFW DEG) were funding the order for the demining vehicles.

As previously reported, Ukrainian rescuers have already received 19 foreign unmanned demining vehicles.

The unmanned demining vehicles were received from the governments of Germany, Canada, Estonia, Switzerland, and the Howard G. Buffett Foundation and United24.