Ukrainian Arms Industry

[Hindustani78]

http://ukroboronprom.com.ua/en/medi...onetransporteriv-shho-nadijshly-z-frontu.html

After 2 years of warfare operation, BTR 3 of various modifications were delivered to UOP SE “Zhytomyr Armored Plant”. The armored vehicles are restored and ready for use at the front.

In accordance with the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine order, the plant sent a repair crew directly to the combat zone for prompt military equipment repair. Having examined the vehicles, specialists came to conclusion that restoring the given units of the military equipment in the field conditions is not possible. Today military equipment is in the shops of the plant and, when restored, will be delivered to the ATO zone. As mentioned in the pre-inspection report, there are no cracks in hulls and welded joints, so restoring won’t take too long. This confirms high quality of Ukrainian equipment.


UKROBORONPROM enterprises-participants will produce, repair and modernize more than 600 pieces of military equipment for Ukrainian military under state guarantees. 10 UOP enterprises started working on the contracts, entered this way. UKROBORONPROM fulfilled the state defence order 100%. In the framework of the state defense order, UKROBORONPROM transferred over 2,139 units of new and modernized weapons and military equipment to the military. Of these 109 units of armored vehicles, 36 units of armament for Air Force and Air Defense; 766 units of rocket and artillery; 712 units of missiles and ammunition; 516 units of special equipment: communication, electronic warfare and navigation equipment.

 

[Hindustani78]

https://www.unian.info/society/1817637-ukraine-test-fires-brand-new-anti-tank-missiles-video.html
Ukrainian design bureau Luch has successfully tested a new batch of anti-tank missiles.

Ukraine 19:10, 10 March 2017 890

The company stated that the tests had been carried out according to the customer’s order and were successfully completed. A footage from the range was earlier uploaded on the manufacturer’s YouTube channel.


As UNIAN reported earlier, Ukroboronprom had developed a new type of missiles for the Ukrainian Air Force. 80 mm missiles are designed for attack helicopters and warplanes, aimed to destroy land targets.

 

[Hindustani78]

Tests of combat modules for infantry fighting vehicles

http://www.mil.gov.ua/en/news/2017/...-and-security-have-already-exceeded-5-of-gdp/
President Petro Poroshenko emphasizes that the state created preconditions for economic development and beginning of restoration and improvement of the living standards. However, such path of state development is not satisfactory for some people both outside and inside Ukraine. A significant part of the Ukrainian political community is still guided by the principle “the worse, the better”, as stated by the President.

The Head of State is confident that serious political risks endanger the economy and welfare of the people. “For us to understand that something has already been achieved, thus, we have something to lose. There is a great danger to fall back. And then, all the victims, all suffering of people would be vain,” he noted. The President would like the Ukrainian reality not to be associated with Sisyphus who has been rolling an immense boulder up a hill, only to watch it come back, repeating this action for eternity.

“The key menace is Russian military threat. And it comes not only from the occupied areas of Donbas, it is brooding along the whole border line with Russia. The right answer to this challenge is the only one: if in early 2014, expenditures for the defence equalled 1% of GDP, in 2016 we have raised them to 3.2%. And we may have to further increase it. If we take into account general expenditures for defence and security, they have already exceeded 5% of GDP,” the President stressed.

According to the Head of State, the rebirth and reinforcement of the Ukrainian Armed Forces has forced the Kremlin to multiply their efforts on the internal destabilization in Ukraine. “Information war, spreading fake news, instigation of panic and disbelief. Stimulation and simulation of protest movements and manipulation in one’s own interests by some far right groups. Promotion of a wicked idea of early elections to increase the representation of pro-Kremlin forces, sending subversive groups to Ukraine and preparation of terrorist attacks — this list of Kremlin’s tools is far from being complete,” he emphasized.

 

[Asian.Century]

TOP 10 WEAPON SYSTEMS MADE IN UKRAINE

Military think-tank makes up top weaponry and military hardware list

Centre for Army, Conversion and Disarmament Studies
Narodna Armiya, Kiev, Ukraine, in Ukrainian 10 Jul 09;
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, July 10, 2009



TOP 10 WEAPON SYSTEMS MADE IN UKRAINE
Military think-tank makes up top weaponry and military hardware list

Centre for Army, Conversion and Disarmament Studies
Narodna Armiya, Kiev, Ukraine, in Ukrainian 10 Jul 09; p 4
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, July 10, 2009

The Centre for Army, Conversion and Disarmament Studies [military think-tank] has composed a list of the top 10 innovations in weaponry and military hardware which have most impacted Ukraine's defence capability or its position on the international arms market.

1. High-precision destruction weapon systems, such as Kombat, Stuhna and others, which have shown the capability of Ukrainian inventors to develop new, state-of-the-art weapons, top the list, according to the centre's press service (Kiev-based state design bureau Luch).
2. The development and promotion of the An-148 aircraft, which helps lead the nation's plane building sector out of a crisis, takes second place (Antonov state aviation concern).
3. In third place is a modernized version of the radar reconnaissance Kolchuga-M system demonstrating Ukraine's ability to develop technology created in the former USSR (special design bureau of the state joint-stock holding company Topaz, the state Ukrspetseksport [arms-trading] company).
4. The new Oplot tank and light armour elements for the BTR-3E1 and BTR-4 armoured personnel carriers take fourth place. The new equipment may lead to the emergence of a completely new type of armoured vehicle [Kharkiv-based Morozov machine-building design bureau].
5. The development of the new corvette class military vessel with integrated elements and western manufactured assemblies come in fifth place (state-owned research and design centre of shipbuilding).
6. In sixth place is the new three-dimensional radar station Pelikan (79K6), which has allowed national radar system developers to remain among world leaders (Iskra national design and production enterprise).
7. A system to protect helicopters from high-precision means of destruction with an infra-red seeker is in seventh place (the Adron research and production company).
8. In eighth place is a new system for defending armoured vehicles from attack by Nizh- and Zaslin-type weapon systems (the [Kharkiv-based] state central bureau of critical technologies Mikrotekh).
9. Ninth place goes to several millimetric frequency radar systems akin to the Barsuk and Manhust (Ukrspetstekhnika holding company in 2000-04).
10. Rounding out the top 10 is Kontrast, a device to camouflage equipment (the Institute of Automated Systems, Ukraine's National Academy of Sciences).

https://economics.unian.info/2077946-ukrainian-arms-exports-in-2016.html