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According to Minister Herman Smetanin, 54,000 mortar ammunition was checked. At ...

The Ministry of Defense Commission found 24,000 defeated 120 mm mines delivered in the Armed Forces-Minister

According to Minister Herman Smetanin, 54,000 mortar ammunition was checked. At the same time, about 1 million mines were delivered in 2024, of which less than 1 percent were unusable. The Commission of the Ministry of Strategic Industry of Ukraine and the Ministry of Defense found it defective 24 thousand 120 mm mortar ammunition previously delivered by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

According to the head of the profile ministry, Herman Smetanin on November 28, these mines were withdrawn from the troops after advertising from the Armed Forces Logistics Command. "The working group worked during November 11-15 and concluded that there were indeed freelance to several components of the product. As a result, some of the shots were of poor quality," the minister writes. In total, about 24,000 units are subject to the manufacturer of 54,000 mines.

In this case, the manufacturer replaces defective ammunition with quality samples. In addition, according to the results of the investigation, manufacturers increased control at all stages, including checking the purchased components. Smetanine specified that the number of defective ammunition was less than 1% of the total volume of supplies in 2024, which reached millions of units. According to Zn.

ua and, according to the investigation of journalist and militarykra Yuri Butusov, the Armed Forces soldiers encountered a number of problems in mortar mines of WF-843B, in particular: in one of the cases of 17 shots: for comparison, the use of ammunition was possible Two straight rides of four shots with an ellipse of scattering only 20 meters.