30 PAKISTANI AL-KHALID TANKS BROKE DOWN BECAUSE OF FAULTY UKRAINIAN-SUPPLIED MACHINE OIL

[Zarvan]

Al-Khalid tank

30 transmission units of Pakistani Al-Khalid tanks broke down due to faulty Ukrainian machine oil. Pakistani tanks were using the “Azmol Garant” machine oil. However, official manufacturer of the “Azmol Garant” did not supply its oil to Pakistan.

The Ukrainian state owned company “Ukrspetzeksport”, holding the exclusive rights to export Ukrainian military product, bought the oil from a different unlicensed vendor. The counterfeit oil was bought for $6 thousand per ton, while the oil from the licensed manufacturer goes for half the price, $3 thousand.

This isn’t the first recent case of tank failure related to corruption in the ranks of Ukrainian military. In September, 35 Ukrainian T-64 tanks broke down on a test range near Melitopol. After working for a few hours, the tanks started losing power, with their engines repeatedly cutting out. At first 21 tanks failed, with 14 more failing in a few days. According to the command, the tanks were equipped with brand new engines, with no more than 3-4 hours of working time. The failures were reasoned out to be because of the faulty fuel.

Ukrainian journalist Taras Zhovtenko investigated the incident. According to him, a special committee, created to investigate the tanks, received three engines of the failed T-64s. The committee reported that the engines were anything but new, with metal corroded, a lot of dust residue and other evidence of long use. The oil waste from the engines contained dirt, metal, and traces of fuel. This couldn’t have happened to a brand new engine.

The real age of the engines was not announced. The committee declared that tanks engines failed due to poor storage conditions and improper depreservation.

According to Zhovtenko, Major General Yuri Melnik, who ordered the committee to stop investigating the faulty engines after two out of three had been inspected, was incriminated for using old and faulty tank engines under the guise of brand new ones back in July of this year. In 2015, Melnik and his accomplices intentionally bought faulty and old T-72 engines for the price of new ones. His machinations landed him a nifty profit of more than $1 million.

https://southfront.org/30-pakistani-al-khalid-tanks-broke-faulty-ukrainian-supplied-machine-oil/

 

[The SC]

Golos.ua reported that officials of the Ukrainian arms export company Ukrspeitskaport bought low-quality engine oils at high prices.

This was demonstrated after the Pakistani army's no longer operational 30 engine units of dedicated Al-Khalid tanks purchased by the Pakistan Army in 2016 from the Kharkiv Tank Manufacturing Plant in Ukraine.

The Pakistani military has decided to examine the tanks' engines after these combat vehicles began to crash one by one, the site said. The group of specialists found that the reason was poor engine oils.

The discovery and subsequent investigation revealed that Ukraine's Ukrainian state-owned Ukrespecport, which supplied Pakistan with the above-mentioned engines, purchased Azmul Garant oil from a source without authorization to produce it.

It also shows that these oils were bought at a price 162-163 thousand hryvnia (over 6 thousand dollars) per ton, while the official price is 80 thousand hryvnia per ton only.

Source:Golos.ua

 

[Maarkhoor]

Golos.UA?

There is no such news, all A.K tanks are very well and maintained...Pakistan don't buy engine oil from Ukraine.

 

[Safriz]

Pakistan does not buy engine oil from Ukraine

 

[Zarvan]

A friend says this website is Russian propaganda website so the news could be false

@Horus

 

[GriffinsRule]

They have a lot of specifics in the news report, which usually isnt the case in made up stories.

 

[Mrc]

U can make up specifics no issue...

Pak has been ok so far with Ukrainian engines

 

[DESERT FIGHTER]

U can make up specifics no issue...

Pak has been ok so far with Ukrainian engines

Report is about counterfeit motor (sold at gouble rates) oil not engines.

 

[volatile]

An official version should come from armed forces ,as i understand we take time to acknowledge any problems we are facing some time its good but most time hiding facts are disastrous

 

[hussain0216]

Still remember this forum filled with threads claiming alkhalid sales to saudi Arabia,Bangladesh,jordan.

defence equipment sales get negotiated all the time

its a time consuming process that can take years and still not work out

then suddenly a product can take off, look at super mushak Pakistan tried and tried and now it is in service with numerous airforces

JF 17 looks like having its 3rd export order in the bag with more nation's negotiating

sometimes your successful sometimes it takes time

 

[Maxpane]

 

[YeBeWarned]

if its true , than i see a significant delay in Oplot-P

 

[Yaseen1]

damages should be reembursed from ukraine

 

[Imran Khan]

use local oil man it will be better

 

[YeBeWarned]

use local oil man it will be better

how about Maulana Diesel ?