Germany will pay for the supply of a batch of Wisent 1 MC demining machines with British equipment to the Armed Forces of Ukraine
The Ukrainian army will receive special equipment for breaking through minefields, the supply will be provided by British and German companies. We are talking about a German Wisent 1 MC armored support vehicle equipped with British demining devices.
The German government ordered the supply of Wisent 1 MC demining machines for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Berlin will pay for the order, the equipment should arrive in Ukraine before the end of the year. The number of ordered cars is not disclosed, however, on the website of the German government there is a list of assistance to Ukraine, which refers to some "tanks for demining" in the amount of 42 units. The German and British companies Flensburger Fahrzeugbau Gesellschaft (FFG) and Pearson Engineering announced that they have received a contract for the assembly of equipment for Ukraine.
The Wisent 1 MC Engineering Vehicle is a Wisent 1 platform from Flensburger Fahrzeugbau Gesellschaft with a full size demining system from Pearson Engineering, one of the world's leading manufacturers of demining devices.
Designed to create safe routes for tank columns, the Wisent 1 MC is equipped with a full-size mine-clearing system and a lane marking system to allow troops following it to safely pass through the cleared lanes.
The machine is equipped with: a full-width shaft plow, a lane marking system, a magnetic signature duplicator, an auxiliary winch, a crane with a lifting capacity of 30 tons and a front-mounted high-lift adapter. NATO standard 4569 ballistic protection Level 5 (25-mm projectile) and level 3 mine protection (detonation of a high-explosive anti-tank mine with a charge mass of 8 kg of explosives).
- https://www.ffg-flensburg.de/en/
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