Ukraine's Deputy Minister of Defense Volodymyr Havrylov had a talk with ArmyInform, shedding some light on how Ukraine together with allies managed to establish repair of the Western-type military equipment.
Nowadays the Armed Forces of Ukraine operate a wide variety of systems gathered from all around the world: from armored MRAP cars to heavy APCs, IFVs, tanks and self-propelled artillery guns. The issue of repair and maintenance of all these systems that were practically foreign to the Ukrainian Army a little more than a year ago is one of the most important for their effective application.
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Havrylov notes that as of today, Ukraine managed to build an effective cooperation framework with both the countries who committed these vehicles and the companies that manufactured them, in terms of all that is necessary for repairs.
There are three parts to this process, if you will, the most important part is delivering spare parts for the equipment used by the Ukrainian forces. Next, there is personnel training and finally the organization of repairs for the damaged pieces.
Today, all repairs are done at three "lines," the Ukrainian defense official says. Three of them are located in Ukraine, and in the most dire cases, the equipment is sent abroad.
The general logic is, everything that can be done quickly and with own hands, is done in Ukraine, while more complex repair works are carried out at the particular materiel's home workshops, by the companies that produced the vehicle originally.
At the same time, adjustments are being made: due to the ongoing intense warfare, it is important to reduce the time frame of repairs, and sometimes sending equipment abroad takes too long.
That's why, Havrylov says innovative programs were introduced, they are supposed to speed up the ordering and supplying of spare parts for newly acquired foreign types of military equipment.
"I'll tell you more, some foreign companies are opening up their agencies on the territory of Ukraine. Besides the vehicles and components, they also handed over technical documentation on their products," the official stated.
Here we can recall, for example, that major defense player BAE Systems is to open an office in Ukraine, with plans to deploy an industrial basis for repair and production of its products (including Challenger 2 tanks, Bradley vehicles, M777 guns, M109 SPGs, and many more).
Another such example is the German company Rheinmetall which created a joint venture with Ukraine's state defense concern Ukroboronprom. The new enterprise would specialize in tank manufacture, with repair and maintenance capacities provided.
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