The design opens and collapses in a short time, and when installed correctly, provides protection against artillery of any caliber.
Metinvest Group launched the production of steel underground command posts. The first steel headquarters, designed for 30 military personnel, has already been transferred to the Ukrainian Ground Forces and placed in one of the hot areas of the front, the press service of the group reported on Friday, January 19.
Metal structures are designed to protect personnel from shelling, as well as provide comfortable working conditions for the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the front line.
Metinvest added that the structure opens and collapses in a short time, and when installed correctly, provides protection against artillery of any caliber.
“The steel headquarters consists of five or six (depending on the configuration) separate mobile bunkers: these are interconnected underground shelters that perform different functions – from living and a sanitary area to the working headquarters of the command. Thus, a whole underground complex The headquarters is equipped with all the necessary equipment for a comfortable stay: sleeping areas and work areas, showers and boilers, systems of heating, lighting and communication, places to store weapons and personal belongings and electronic equipment, which allows you to use the underground headquarters not only as a shelter and place of rest, but also as a workplace for the front line command,” the statement said.
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According to Metinvest’s operating director Alexander Mironenko, the group’s plans involve building new configurations of underground steel complexes for other needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
“The construction of improved bunkers, the entire underground complex is the contribution of Metinvest and Rinat Akhmetov’s Steel Front to improving the lives of soldiers on the front line. Because people are the main thing. I hope there will be more such checkpoints on the front line, and the “underground towns” “They will be a reliable support for the command of military formations. Metinvest also plans to develop new configurations of underground steel complexes for other needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. We will not stop until Ukraine wins,” he commented on the transfer of the first command post in the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The group’s press service noted that the new command posts are based on the “kryivka” bunker model, 330 units of which Metinvest has transferred to various brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces since 2022.
“The design of a standard steel bunker was modified for use as part of a permanent headquarters; the dimensions were increased to 6 meters in length and 2.3 meters in height. Specialists from Metinvest enterprises spends about 400 hours building such a structure,” the group reports.
In December, the Metinvest group reported sending UAH 2.5 billion to the defense forces as part of Rinat Akhmetov’s Steel Front military initiative.
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Source: korrespondent
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