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Arms exports remain an important source of income for the Ukrainian defense sector. One of the major export contracts is this year’s delivery of a final batch of Olot main battle tanks to Thailand. The deal is worth nearly $250 million.

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One of the most important and widely discussed deals in the package of contracts is the supply of fifty Oplot main battle tanks to the Kingdom of Thailand. For more than six years, Ukraine has been struggling to fulfill its obligations.


BM Oplot tank is the latest product of the Ukrainian armored industry. The machine is another step in a series of comprehensive modernization of the Soviet-era T-80 tank as well as T-84, developed on its basis.

The tank was approved for the use by the Ukrainian Armed Forces back in 2009, while two years on, in 2011, the contract with the Thai government was signed off. The agreement stipulated the delivery of 49 tanks to the customer before the end of 2014 for a total of about $250 million.

However, only five machines were supplied before the deadline set, while further performance of the contract was delayed for several years, with regular breaches of the new deadlines. After the outbreak of hostilities in the east of Ukraine in 2014, the execution of arms contracts has been suspended, while the terms of their implementation were reviewed. This also regarded the Thai deal.

After a lengthy pause, the contract was renewed in the summer of 2015, when the second batch of five Oplots was shipped to Thailand.

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Shipment of an Oplot MBT under the Thai contract / Ukrspecexport photo gallery But such a rhythm of Ukraine’s obligation fulfillment could actually put an end to the deal. Ukroboronprom leadership has switched to some more pro-active measures. For the violation of contractual deadlines, CEO of Malyshev Plant, the Oplot producer, was laid off. The state-owned concern has recognized that there are indeed some problems with the tank’s production and even enlisted the assistance of private manufacturers. Meanwhile, these steps also failed to resolve all the problems with supplies.


As of January 2017, Thailand received only 20 tanks out of the expected 49, although this year should see the final implementation of the contract.


According to the information published, Thailand was willing to replace the Ukrainian Oplots with 28 Chinese VT-4 tanks.

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“This is a standard procedure. They check [the tanks] at the plant, then there is bench testing, as well as the tests on a range. Accordingly, when this is all over and when the inspection approves it, the tanks will be delivered to the customer,” the Malyshev Plant officials told UNIAN.

“This usually happens within a maximum of two weeks. The delivery of the tanks to the customer will take another few months." Head if Defense Express information and consulting firm and a military expert Serhiy Zghurets in his comments to UNIAN noted that the Ukrainian tank is rather competitive on the world arms market, but regular violation of contractual terms undermines the credibility of Ukraine as a reliable partner. Oplot MBT is able to compete well with China’s VT-4, especially in terms of engine characteristics.

That’s because the Chinese don’t produce engines for their tanks. But anyway, export contracts must be performed in time. Otherwise, Chinese or Russian competitors will start emerging, either in the format of media publications or statements. We need to reliably ensure the execution of contracts. If we ignore such things, we will be losing our positions," said the expert.

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According to him, in the near future Ukraine will use in combat the T-64 tanks after their thorough modernization. By the way, several thousand tanks of this model remain conserved in the warehouses of the Defense Ministry. Zghurets says that there is a similar situation with the development of the armored industry in Russia.

Their latest Armata tank, which is only engaged in a media combat field as a propaganda weapon, will go into a mass production in just ten years. Armata is an experimental model. They promised that this year a full-scale production will already start. But we don’t see it yet. I am positive that the Armata tank will be brought to mass production in no less than 10 years.

And we will be fighting, using modernized T-64 tanks, while they will have T-72’s," said Zghurets. By the way, in early January, a new tank was patented. The designers named the model T-Rex [or Tirex], saying that the project will become a major competitor of Russia’s Armata.

According to the concept, T-Rex should be resistant to cumulative ammo. By analogy with Armata, it will be equipped with an armored capsule able to fit in three crew members, as well as an “uninhabited” turret.

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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has insisted on fully equipping tank units of the Ukrainian armed forces with retrofitted and overhauled tanks by modernizing the existing T-64 and T-80 tanks.

Speaking at a National Security and Defense Council meeting on Friday, Poroshenko said there had been a heated discussion in drawing up the state defense order as to what kind of military hardware needs to be procured, the presidential press service reported on Friday.

"We have the choice: either one Oplot [tank] or ten well retrofitted and overhauled T-64s or T-80s. Moreover, construction of one Oplot takes at least 18 months, while the T-80's major modernization takes 2.5 months. Therefore, our question is: either a fully-equipped tank company or one tank," Poroshenko said at the session.

"And as long as we have the resources, we need to overhaul these tanks urgently. We need primarily to provide tank units with the full amount of highly upgraded and overhauled vehicles in a very short time," he said.

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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said Ukraine needs to increase its weapons exports and upgrade the production facilities of its defense enterprises.

"We need to support the growing demand for Ukrainian-produced weapons. I stress that we are not selling out, unlike some [previous] infamous defense ministers and those who took the relevant decisions. At present, we are firmly and steadily gaining the market share for the types of weapons produced in Ukraine," press service of the Ukrainian president quoted Poroshenko as saying during a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine on Friday.

The president recalled the domestic defense orders are executed on production facilities, the depreciation rate of which is 67%, or even 80% at some companies.

"Please work out, as I instructed, the program of upgrading the production facilities. Without modern production facilities we will not be able to compete efficiently on the global market and to ensure the modernization and the development of new weapons systems, which is spurred by external demands. As we are doing it now at our flagship defense industry companies, in our well-known design bureaus for the missile, aircraft, and armored vehicles industries," Poroshenko said.

According to the president, only thanks to export contracts leading Ukrainian developments do not end up piling up on the shelves, but account for 2% of the total exports of Ukraine. And this target should be increased, the president said.
 
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Ukraine's state-owned defense giant Ukroboronprom within the framework of the state defense order has received funding for the delivery to the Ukrainian army of several dozen Dozor-B armored personnel carriers.
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According to the press service of the concern, the order will be performed by Lviv armored plant.

"The production capacity and technological process completed in 2016 allow producing Dozor-B in series," the concern reported, adding that the plant's capacity received 100% of the workload and secured jobs for 2017.


According to Ukroboronprom, the decision to order Ukraine-made APCs was made at a meeting of the NSDC on January 27.
 
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A Ukrainian-made unmanned aerial vehicle, Leleka-100, has been tested by Ukrainian military specialists near the airfield in the city of Chernihiv.

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The State Concern “UkrOboronProm” – despite extremely tense situation in ATO area – formed additional mobile maintenance crews to repair military equipment for Ukrainian army.

Over short time period highly skilled UOP workers can restore damaged military equipment and send it back to the front. This allows saving time, avoiding equipment delivery to administrative area, where UOP production facilities are situated.

These crews – made of the best specialists of Kharkiv, Zhytomyr, Lviv and other armored plants that are part of the SC “Ukroboronprom” – proved their effectiveness during three years of blistering battles.

During 2014-2015 the number of mobile maintenance crews , working “in the field,” reached 53. 100-150 units of armored vehicles and other weapons were renewed by UOP specialists per week, close to the forefront.

Currently, SC “UkrOboronProm” is working closely with the Defense Ministry and other security agencies to effectively enhance the combat capability of Ukrainian army forces both by maintenance crews and through the main production facilities of UOP enterprises-participants.

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SC “UkrOboronProm” will manufacture a new batch of dozens armored vehicles “Dozor-B” for Ukrainian army due to SE “Lviv Armored Plant” funding under the state defense order. Production capacities and technological process – prepared in 2016 – allow mass production of “Dozor-B.”

“Lviv Armored Plant” funding became possible due to operational decisions of the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksandr Turchynov, Minister of Defense of Ukraine Stepan Poltorak, Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and the Head of Lviv Regional Administration Oleg Synyutka. On Friday, January 27, the meeting of the National Security Council was held, and on Monday the enterprise received order confirmation.

Lviv enterprise team – nearly 900 employees – is 100% loaded with work and has employment security in 2017. This allows avoiding forced leave and loading capacities of “Lviv Armored Plant.”

It should be noted that these changes will contribute to the whole complex of related enterprises all over Ukraine. 17 UOP enterprises-participants and 86 domestic different ownership enterprises are involved in cooperation production of “Dozor.”

Due to operational coordination of all branches of government and relevant decisions of Ukrainian leadership and administration of Lviv Region, military will receive the first Ukrainian armored vehicle “Dozor-B.”

Despite extremely tense situation on the front, the State Concern “UkrOboronProm” sends additional maintenance crews to ATO area to repair military equipment for Ukrainian army.

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National Guard of Ukraine awarded certificates of honour to Specialists of the SE ” Kyiv Armored Plant,” working in the field repair teams directly in the ATO area. The certificates are already delivered to the enterprise.

As stated in the certificates of honour, workers of UOP SE “Kyiv Armored Plant” are thanked for “substantial assistance to military personnel involved in the conduct of anti-terrorist operation in the Luhansk region,” as well as “initiative, stamina and professionalism in the repair of armored vehicles. “

“Kyiv Armored Plant” equips Ukrainian army with armored personnel carriers BTR-3 of various modifications. The vehicle passed operation testing directly in the east of the country, having received positive reviews. “This armored personnel carrier demonstrated itself during the fighting,” – said the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko during the meeting of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.

Last year modern subassembly welding facilities for manufacturing BTR-3 were prepared at the enterprise. From now on “Kyiv Armored Plant” can significantly increase production, reduce costs and lay a new technological potential. This is another important step in the development of domestic armored vehicles.

Despite extremely tense situation in ATO area, the State Concern “UkrOboronProm” formed additional maintenance crews to repair military equipment for Ukrainian army. During 2014-2015 the number of mobile repair crews, working “in the field,” amounted 53. 100-150 units of armored vehicles and other weapons were renewed by UOP specialists per week, close to the forefront.


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Ukraine has conducted successful tests of a 57-mm surface target missile for the Ukrainian Air Forces, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said.

"I have good news. Ukroboronprom has designed new missiles for the Ukrainian Air Forces. The 57-mm surface target missiles are designed for attack helicopters and planes," he wrote on his Facebook page on Saturday.

The president said that the helicopter team hit the targets during the tests. The helicopter is also equipped with new engines and the Adros station for optical-electronic suppression.

"Only a half of a second is required to issue the 20 missile pod. It is good work, guys," the president wrote.

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As UNIAN reported earlier, Ukroboronprom State enterprise "Konotop Aircraft Repair Plant" Aviakon" in 2016 repaired and modernized more than two dozen military helicopters for Ukrainian army. Among those, modernization of Mi-24PU1, equipped with modern electronics, new engines, powerful weapons, and has a high degree of protection that includes Adros modern protection complex. This complex foils heat-seeking missiles, protecting helicopter from man-portable air defense systems "Igla" and Stinger, as well as from air-to-air missiles type R-60 and R-73.

State-run Ukroboronprom concern was established in 2010 to ensure effective operations and management of state-owned business entities that develop, manufacture, sell, repair, modernize and scrap weapons, military and special equipment and ammunition, and participate in military and technical cooperation. The concern incorporates over a hundred enterprises of Ukraine's defense industry.
 
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As reported, the change of CEOs is a common European practice based on KPI (Key Performance Indicators) relating to the strategic vision of company development, workers' social security, as well as investment in research and production.

According to the Ukroboronprom such decisions were taken with regard to the top management of Zhytomyr Armored Plant, Kharkiv-based Morozov Machine Building Design Bureau, Artillery Armament Design Bureau, Iskra Scientific and Production Complex, and others.

"Annual monitoring of the top management effectiveness is a standard business practice. At the beginning of the year, the CEOs take on certain obligations for production, financial performance, and the introduction of social standards. If they fulfill them, they can rely on the continued career growth. If not, other, more motivated, leaders replace them," the press service commented on the decision.

UNIAN memo. The profit from the Ukroboronprom operating activities amounted to UAH 1.4 billion in 2016, while EBITDA stood at UAH 2.4 billion. According to the results of recent years, the state concern has fully performed the state defense order, ensuring supplies to the Ukrainian army and working on arms export contracts, whose volume in 2016 increased by 25% from 2015, up to $750 million.
 
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Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman favors speeding up of rearmament of the Ukrainian army.

According to the press service of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, he said about this during a meeting with NATO Deputy Secretary General Rose Gottemoeller (performs duties of Secretary General when Jens Stoltenberg is sick).

"We need to accelerate the upgrading and re-equipment of the Ukrainian Army," a report says referring to Groysman.

He noted that the military and industrial complex of Ukraine is working on a modernization of weapons, and called for the acceleration of this process.

The prime minister also stressed the need to bring the Ukrainian army in line with NATO standards.
 
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Enterprises incorporated into state-run Ukroboronprom Concern have not been selling their products to Russia since the middle of 2014, the Concern has said in a statement.

"There has been no trade with the aggressor country, as is stipulated in a Cabinet resolution dated 2014. The Concern monitors that not a single screw is shipped to the enemy. Yet, we do not rule out that other defense plants that are not part of Ukroboronprom continue cooperating with Russia in circumvention of the laws of Ukraine. However, our enterprises strictly abide by state legal acts," the statement, issued on Monday, said.

What is more, Ukroboronprom not only stopped any trade with Russia in the middle of 2014, but also launched a program to substitute Russian components.
 
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Public joint-stock company Motor Sich (Zaporizhia) denies accusations of supplying AI-222 engines to Russia in 2016 avoiding a ban on defense cooperation with Russia spread by the media.

"Motor Sich has been operating in line with law and has not cooperated with Russia since the moment of adopting the official decision of authorities to ban cooperation. Supplies of AI-222 engines to Russia for Yak-130 subsonic trainer aircraft were halted in June 2014. The company did not supply them in 2015, 2016 and 2017," the company told Interfax-Ukraine on Tuesday.

At the end of 2014, Motor Sich signed a contract to supply AI-222 engines to China.

In 2014, Ukraine stopped exporting to Russia military and dual-purpose goods due to the events in Donbas and the joining of Crimea to Russia.

The Ukrainian government on May 20, 2015 severed the 1993 intergovernmental agreement with Russia in the sphere of military-technical cooperation.
 
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"Combat vehicle of 21st century": Ukrainian Oplot MBT in action

Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman during his visit to Kharkiv has inspected the performance of the Ukrainian-made Oplot main battle tank.

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Ukroboronprom's Ukrinmash for the first time showcased its light combat helicopter KT112UD, or KT112 Combat, at IDEX 2017 in the UAE.

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Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin has said Ukraine needs more defensive and high-tech weapons and efficient cooperation with the U.S. and NATO.

"We definitely need it. Anyway, I always say that I do not like this division into lethal and non-lethal weapons. There is a clear concept of defensive weapons. We need it," Klimkin said in an interview with the Dzerkalo Tyzhnia (Mirror Weekly, ZN.UA) answering a question on whether Ukraine needs defensive lethal weapons.

He stressed that they specially need more high-tech weapons.

"We definitely need more high-tech weapons, we need efficient cooperation with the United States and NATO," the minister said.

When asked if one can expect the new U.S. administration to provide lethal defensive weapons to Ukraine, Klimkin said: "I have an impression that these people have clear convictions and willingness to defend them... Military and technical cooperation will definitely continue, and most importantly develop."
 
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Kiev recently announced that it had created a domestically-produced shell for the Smerch multiple launch rocket system (MLRS). But according to Nikolai Makarovets, director of the Splav State Research and Production Enterprise, which produces Smerch, the Ukrainian defense industry simply doesn't have the production capacity to do so.

Earlier this month, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko announced that a new domestically-produced shell, the Olha, had been developed for the Smerch, and that the complete production cycle necessary for producing the weapon has been established. If confirmed, this would enable the Ukrainian military-industrial complex to furnish the approximately 75-95 Smerch systems in Kiev's possession with domestically-made shells.

However, according to Splav director Nikolai Makarovets, Kiev's announcement of a Ukrainian-made shell for the Smerch sounds little more than political posturing. And Makarovets should know. The Splav State Research and Production Enterprise, located in Tula, Russia, has been designing and manufacturing the Smerch ('Whirlwind') rocket artillery system since the late 1980s.

According to the veteran designer, Ukraine's Yuzhnoye Design Office is presently the only Ukrainian design bureau that's capable of developing rockets. "Before the collapse of the Soviet Union, I worked at the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau. To this day it is the only Ukraine-based design bureau capable of creating rockets…" Makarovets recalled.

However, the designer added that "at present, [Yuzhnoye] cannot create rockets of our caliber. They simply do not have the equipment necessary to develop the rocket's air frame, or a nozzle block with a two meter diameter" necessary to produce Smerch's rocket projectiles.

The designer also pointed out that the only Ukrainian manufacturer presently capable of producing rocket fuel for a Smerch rocket is the Pavlograd Chemical Plant. However, this plant has now halted its operations, Makarovets said.

Development of the Smerch rocket artillery system began in the mid-1980s, and the system was introduced into the Soviet military in 1989. The deadly system's 12 barrels are fitted with 300mm rockets, which have an effective firing range of between 70 and 90 km, and a maximum documented range of up to 120 km. The mobile system can be deployed for combat in less than five minutes. Several variants of the system have been produced since the USSR's collapse. In addition to Russia and Ukraine, Smerch has been exported to over a dozen countries across the former Soviet Union, the Middle East, Asia and Latin America.

At the height of the civil war in Ukraine in 2014 and early 2015, Smerch systems were used by Ukrainian forces to fire on Donbass cities including Donetsk and Lugansk.

Since then, Kiev has announced a series of new design projects, including the Neptun anti-ship missile, the Korshun sea- and ground-based cruise missile, and the Olha rocket projectile for MLRS systems. However, since then, there has been little word on these systems' further development, and some military experts have suggested that the new weapons were little more than the rebranding of old Soviet-era designs.
 
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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has signed the law on ratification of the agreement between the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and the government of Indonesia on cooperation in the defense industry, approved by the Verkhovna Rada on February 8.

According to the official website of the head of state, the agreement was signed on August 5, 2016 during Poroshenko's state visit to Indonesia.

The agreement introduces general principles for the development of bilateral cooperation in the defense industry between the two countries in areas of mutual interest in accordance with the laws of the states, principles of mutual respect, trust and benefit.

The areas of cooperation between Ukraine and Indonesia will include exchange of visits by senior officials, including those from the armed forces, the development of military and technical cooperation, cooperation in the defense industry and logistics, exchange of information on defense and military issues, cooperation in the development of military education and training.
 
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Ukraine opens a new center of excellence for the training of air force pilots and crews of Mi-8 MTV, Mi-17V5, Mi-171SH, and Mi-24 helicpoters.
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Ukraine and Pakistan start the practical implementation of the agreements in defense industry aimed at expanding cooperation in armored vehicle production under the Pakistani T-80UD tanks upgrade program.

State-run enterprise Ukrspecexport said that at the 13th International Defence Exhibition and Conference (IDEX) 2017 (the United Arab Emirates), the top managers of the Ukrainian enterprise met with representatives of Armed Forces of Pakistan. Ukraine and Pakistan signed two contracts to overhaul first five T-80UD tanks of the Pakistani Armed Forces (a pilot project) and to supply 88 tank sights to Pakistan.

The contracts were signed as part of agreements confirmed in the memorandums of cooperation signed at the IDEAS 2016 (Pakistan) in November 2016 with the participation of Ukrainian Defense Minister Stepan Poltorak, the press service said.

The IDEX 2017 was held from February 19 through February 23 in Abu-Dhabi. It is the only international defense exhibition and conference in the MENA region demonstrating the latest technology across land, sea and air sectors of defense.

At the IDEAS 2016 International Defense Exhibition in November 2016 Ukrspecexport and Heavy Industries Taxila (Pakistan) signed a memorandum of understanding to expand defense cooperation in repair and modernization of armed vehicles of Pakistan. The agreements achieved envisage the $600 million defense contract for Ukrainian production facilities.
 
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