Slovakia’s Way Industries and Italy’s FAE have localized the production of their remote-controlled demining systems in Ukraine.

Ihor Fedirko, Advisor to the Minister for Strategic Industries, told Militarnyi about this.

The Italian company FAE Group has localized the production of PT-300 D:MINE demining systems.

The Slovakian company Way Industries has also localized the production of Bozena-5 demining systems.

“Global manufacturers understand that they need to localize production in order to speed up the supply of their equipment to the Ukrainian market,” said Ihor Fedirko.

Localization also reduces the difficulties associated with paperwork, which takes longer to obtain when importing into Ukraine.

Ihor Fedirko said that Ukraine needed 300 such demining systems.

International charitable foundations are actively helping Ukraine with these vehicles. In addition, 8 demining systems were officially purchased for Ukrainian budgetary funds.

The State Emergency Service of Ukraine notes that the PT-300 D:MINE confidently copes with its tasks, namely clearing fields littered with mines, cluster munitions and other unexploded ordnance.

The PT-300 D:MINE is equipped with a Caterpillar diesel engine (275 hp or 302 hp) and is capable of operating on slopes up to 45 degrees and downhill slopes up to 35 degrees. The vehicle has a length of 4950 mm (with a 6500 mm linkage) and a track width of 2360 mm.

The operating weight is 10830 kg. The specific ground pressure is 0.34 kg/cm². The vehicle can effectively clear the territory of anti-personnel and anti-tank mines at a speed of up to 6.5 km/h.

Bozena-5 has been used in Ukraine for a long time for demining. It is equipped with a rotating chain de-mining device. The system includes the main hull of the vehicle, unloading device, operator’s cabin and trailer of the transport platform.