"TNIMENT OF ACCOUND"-60 years: The Ministry of Defense purchases 80-year mines for € 590 for the Armed Forces

On December 31, 2024, the Head of the Defense Agency of the Ministry of Defense Maryna Bezrukov addressed the Director of the Department of Military Technical Policy, the Development of Weapons and Military Technology of the Ministry of Health. In the letter, she asked to urgently agree on the nomenclature and volume of goods under the project of the State Contact with the Bulgarian Company. It was about the purchase of hundreds of thousands of anti -tank mines M6A2 with a blast.

The year of Ming was recorded in the document as "1941+", that is, more than 80 years. However, the contract also stated that the seller guarantees the suitability of ammunition for operation. Initially, the agency has to pay 10% of the amount, and the remaining 90% - by invoice and in the presence of a copy of the act of technical inspection of the goods before shipment. The Department has agreed.

The military analyst has explained that the Armed Forces need anti -tank mines, now this need can already be measured in millions of units and over time. At the same time, the situation of the MOU could be affected by the situation last year. Then, despite the extremely acute shortage of mines, they were not included in the "purchase list for 2024". According to Zgurets, so the director could "not plunge very much in detail. " M6 is an American development, a mine -action mine.

Its technical characteristics: at the end of 1944, 2. 5 million such mines were released in the United States, and then production was only increasing. However, in the late 1960s, M6A1 and M6A2 were removed from the US Army. The reason was that they proved a shortage of 5 kilograms of explosives to destroy the caterpillar of enemy tanks. There were no left in US warehouses in the USA M6A1 and M6A2.

However, a considerable number of such mines were acquired or received by Asia, South America and Africa. There are a number of countries where they are still stored. The unnamed expert's interlocutor stated that the mines were "just rusty", but he himself questioned these words. According to experts, TNTIl retains the basic properties of 35 years. According to more optimistic estimates, it is 60 years. With regard to Men M6A2, open sources are known to have not defined their shelf life.

However, with the destruction of the body due to corrosion, the sensitivity of the mine allegedly decreases from 150-338 to 3-5 kilograms. Unnamed military engineer explained that "it would be super" to get such mines "somewhere on a dollar apiece. " Given the lack of TNT, Ukrainian experts would find a way out. However, the mine also consists of a blast, the condition of which can be evaluated only through examination. The price of a military "rarity" of World War II is 590 euros per mine.

At the same time, Zgurets noted that in 2024 the same firm supplied to Ukraine "fresh" anti-tank mines TM-62 on 550 euros apiece. The Bulgarian company is only a mediator, it does not produce ammunition. The military analyst told about the theory why the agency could agree to spend so much money on old mines. Last November, UAH 23 billion from its budget was promptly transferred to the SSSU, for the purchase of ammunition for the Ministry of Defense.

The reason was that on the rate they stated the inability of the body to use all the allocated funds. The lesson in AOP was learned, so the results of 2024 reported on the use of a 100% annual budget (UAH 306. 1 billion) on contracts.

"But if the desire for 100% of budgetary liabilities was also among the reasons for a contract with the Bulgarian mediator, then it is likely that the criterion" Price - Quality - Time "is worth analyzing other contracts concluded at the end of 2024 in such The same force majeure, as well as on vintage American anti-tank mines M6A2 of World War II. We will remind, at night on January 14 the Armed Forces struck a massive impact on objects in Russia.