The main causes of incidents with 120 mm mines are said to be a drop in temperature and an increase in humidity.
An interdepartmental commission to investigate the abnormal firing of 120-mm mines found that the main causes of the incidents were a drop in temperature and an increase in humidity. This was announced by a member of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence Fyodor Venislavsky in a commentary Suspilny on Tuesday, November 26th.
The People’s Deputy confirmed that some abnormal activations of mines provided by some manufacturers for the security and defense sector have been detected.
“The commission found out the reasons A corresponding report from this commission was sent to the Committee on National Security and Development, but in general it was found that the main reasons are the decrease in temperature and increase in humidity dry conditions of period, these mines have not given any failure.” , said Venislavsky.
According to him, all mines from the batch were recalled at the plant, and the manufacturer undertook to provide new mines in the near future instead of the removed ones, and they “will undergo a thorough additional analysis.”
“I will not name the number of mines that are from the batch that had an abnormal operation.
Venislavsky added that it is the job of law enforcement agencies to determine if this is a crime. At the same time, he emphasized that there are no systemic problems with ammunition.
“There are several factors in the conditions of production and storage all these factors are in the report of the commission There are no systemic problems in this situation, but in the future attention will be paid to checking the quality of the mines. production conditions , storage and use,” said the representative of the people.
According to Venislavsky, incidents of unexpected mine activation began in November.
Let’s recall that earlier the Ministry of Defense said that it was actively investigating the reasons for the supply of low-quality 120-mm mines to the front.
As reported, the military received a low-quality batch of 120 mm mines produced at the enterprise Ukroboronprom. In a batch of bullets there is only one explosion every 10 shots.
Source: korrespondent
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