Demining vehicles delivered to the Ukrainian army from Finland based on German Leopard 2R tanks cannot function in 35-degree heat. Engines require additional cooling, what are the problems, causing them to malfunction.
reported, that the three demining vehicles of this type remaining at the disposal of the Armed Forces of Ukraine stall when trying to use the Zaporozhye Front in the Orekhovsky direction.
It is also reported, that by sending the Ukrainian army the mine-clearing vehicles that were in service and turned out to be extremely unsuccessful based on the Leopard tank, the Finnish army continues to use analogues proven over the years of operation based on Soviet T-55 tanks.
Despite, that a significant part of the T-55 has long been decommissioned by the Finnish army, a number of machines of this type still remain in operation and are used with track mine sweeps, purchased back in Soviet times.
At the end of the 50s of the last century, the Finnish Ministry of Defense acquired about seventy units of T-54A tanks. After almost a quarter of a century, a deep modernization of Soviet tanks was carried out. In particular, they were equipped with the latest multi-channel sights at that time, guns were equipped with thermal protective covers. Smoke grenade launchers were installed on the towers, and the chassis were covered with side screens.
Used 56-ton Leopard tanks purchased from Germany 2 equipped with heavy track trawls KMT-5M, thereby converting into engineering demining vehicles. but, modification “R” showed low efficiency, especially in winter conditions, and all six available units of this equipment were transferred to the militants of the Kyiv regime.
