The company, which manufactures tracks for most of Britain’s armored vehicles and other allied armored vehicles around the world, uses tank parts and documents kept in museums to keep the Ukrainian army active, as well as old Soviet vehicles. Reverse engineered the design.
The world’s largest tank museum has hired a historic British family-run engineering firm to create new spare parts for vintage Russian tanks that serve on the front lines of the Ukrainian army, along with vehicle parts in its collection and archives. Provides original Soviet documents from. The report revealed that there is power. The Bovington Tank Museum in Dorset, England, houses hundreds of vehicles, including the world’s first working tanks, primarily vehicles operated by the British Army or used by British soldiers during battle. A collection focused on captured vehicles is on display. A selection of tanks from the Soviet era.
Mine warfare featured prominently in the Ukrainian war, especially as the front line became more stationary over the winter of 2022-23, and a large number of Ukrainian tanks that were still able to fight, except with rotating tracks, were retired. It meant that. Railway lines damaged by the blast. The agreement suggests that Ukraine’s fierce war of self-defense is yielding military equipment that exceeds the Soviet-era stockpiles and spares left in the country at the end of the Cold War.
BOVINGTON, UK – JUNE 23: Soviet Cold War main battle tank. The T-72 is seen at TANKFEST in Bovington, England on June 23, 2023. Bovington Tank Museum houses the world’s largest collection of tanks, dating from the First World War to the present day. TANKFEST is his three-day event featuring the world’s largest live exhibition of historical armor. (Photo by Finbarr Webster/Getty Images)
BOVINGTON, DORSET – SEPTEMBER 13: Tanks housed in Bovington Tank Museum’s Vehicle Conservation Center will be on display ahead of this weekend’s Tiger Day, when the world’s only working example of a Tiger tank will be unveiled to the public. It’s planned. September 13, 2017, Dorset, England. The Bovington Tank Museum is home to the Tiger 131, which was captured intact by Allied forces during fierce fighting in the Tunisian desert in 1943, and is now home to the world’s first exhibition, Tiger It is part of the collection. -side. The capture was so important that Prime Minister Winston Churchill and King George VI traveled to North Africa to photograph it. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)
Cook Defense Systems of County Durham, England, manufactures tank tracks for Soviet-made vehicles, and Chief of Staff General Patrick Saunders visited the company in June to discuss how the company was providing support. This secretly surfaced last year when we were discussing “Is this true?” Armored vehicle used in Ukraine.
Cooke, which exports tracks to Europe, the Middle East, South East Asia and Australia, was last year ‘commissioned’ by the British government to manufacture spare parts for Soviet tanks, signing a multi-million pound contract for parts and vehicles. Spare tracks for British armored vehicles donated to Ukraine in February 2024. At the time, the MoD said the deal would provide “hundreds of spare tracks for tanks and armored vehicles, which will be made available to the AFU.” [Armed Forces of Ukraine] To recover and repair vehicles damaged by anti-tank weapons and mines…The company’s experts examine and examine Soviet-era vehicles, some recovered from Ukraine, in order to create new tracks that meet different requirements. I’ve analyzed it. ”
it was report The British Defense Journal reported that the contract includes trucks to supply 500 Ukrainian armored vehicles. Among the Soviet vehicles used in the defense of Ukraine, for which Mr. Cook is manufacturing new parts, are his venerable 1950s light armored amphibious vehicle MT-LB, his 1960s BMP infantry fighting vehicle, These include his T-72 main battle tank from the 1970s.
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as stated by of daily telegraph, creating these vintage vehicle tracks was not easy and required detailed study of original parts and documentation. The report notes that Bovington Museum provided prompt support, with curator David Willey saying: “In some cases, people from the Cold War no longer exist and the knowledge has been lost. Details such as the angle, pitch, and tension required for new tracks are sought, and old manuals and designs for tanks are sought from our archives. I was able to provide a diagram.
“We also found examples of items that were actually needed, such as the T-72 tracks and pins from one of the vehicles in our collection, so that new parts can be manufactured accurately in the UK. .”
William Cook, Director of Cook Defense Systems, said of the company’s involvement: We had to reverse engineer a Soviet-era device using limited reference materials and a lot of proprietary know-how, but on the other hand, using available manufacturing processes rather than the original Russian one. and materials were used. We are doing all this with an urgency unknown in peacetime. We know that there are Ukrainian soldiers on the front lines, and their lives depend on our actions.
“One of the biggest challenges is almost doubling production. We reconfigured our production lines and hired new people wherever possible. Everyone is very engaged. However, we are very proud to be making a difference.”
Currently, a large number of Western tanks have arrived in Ukraine, including consignments of the British Challenger 2 and the German Leopard 2 main battle tank.https://t.co/8G8CFRzafP
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