Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala visited the Excalibur Army weapons factory, which restores and modernizes T-72 tanks for Ukraine. On one of the tanks, which will soon go to help the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Fiala personally wrote a wish to the Ukrainian defenders.
“I wrote a short appeal to the brave Ukrainian defenders about the T-72 tank, which will go to Ukraine. I believe that the Ukrainians will win in the fight against the Russian aggressor,” he wrote on Twitter..
On the tank T-72, which is putuje in Ukraine, we wrote a statocny ukrajin obrancom short odkaz. We believe that Ukrajinci extracted them in the fight against the Russian aggressor. pic. twitter. com/XtM4NdaMDX.
Posted by Petr Fiala (@P_Fiala) January 9, 2023.
The Czech company Excalibur Army is working on a contract for the supply of modernized T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly funded by the United States and the Netherlands. The US will pay for the restoration of 45 units, another 45 units will be financed by the Dutch government for a total of about $ 90 million. Work on tanks is carried out at a factory in the city of Sternberk.
According to the Czech Prime Minister, this cooperation has clear benefits for all participants: NATO is strengthening the defenders of Ukraine, on whose success global security depends, and the Czech Republic is strengthening the capabilities of its defense industry.
During his visit to the enterprise, Fiala also inspected a new evacuation vehicle, which will also be delivered to Ukraine..
“While visiting the Excalibur Army armory, I also had the opportunity to christen the new TREVA 30 recovery vehicle, which may also help in Ukraine in the future,” he wrote..
The tactical recovery vehicle TREVA-30, based on the Tatra Force 8x8 chassis, was presented in the summer of 2022 at the Eurosatory exhibition in Paris.
The machine is equipped with an armored four-door cab and accommodates not only the driver and operator, but also the crew of the towed vehicle.. TREVA-30 has a winch that can tow an object weighing up to 50 tons and is equipped with an engine with a power of almost 400 kW.
The machine is designed for transportation to the place of repair of faulty or damaged equipment.
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As reported, in October, the Czech Republic became the first country in the world whose citizens raised 33 million crowns (over 1.3 million euros) in a month to purchase a modernized T-72 AVANGER tank as part of the Gift for Putin initiative and hand it over to Ukrainian defenders..