The German defense company FFG is building an armored vehicle repair center in Ukraine
The German defense company Flensburger Fahrzeugbau Gesellschaft has started construction of an armored vehicles service center in Ukraine.
This was reported by German MP Markus Faber.
“In western Ukraine Flensburger Fahrzeugbau Gesellschaft is building a repair center for armored vehicles that need repair, for example Leopard 1 that it shipped”The politician said.
Faber notes that the deployment of repair facilities domestically will significantly increase efficiency and reduce the time it takes to restore equipment, as expensive and time-consuming transportation abroad will no longer be necessary in the future, and armed forces will be able to train their mechanics on-site.
FFG will actually become the second German defense company after Rheinmetall to set up its facilities in Ukraine.
In October 2023, Minister of Strategic Industries Oleksandr Kamyshyn told Morning Defense that German military equipment manufacturer Flensburger Fahrzeugbau will cooperate with a “private Ukrainian defense industrial company.”
Together, the two joint ventures “will cover the entire range of German weapons that come to Ukraine and can be serviced in Ukraine.”
FFG is one of the largest suppliers of armored vehicles to Ukraine. The company specializes in repairing military equipment and creating specialized machines.
In particular, we are talking about Leopard 1A5 tanks, WiSENT 1 MC engineering vehicles, Pionierpanzer 2A1 Dachs, as well as launchers of IRIS-T SLS anti-aircraft systems.
According to public sources, the joint venture FFG Industries Ukraine was registered on October 12, 2023.
A few days later, on October 26, Dennis Buhieres, a member of the board of FFG, a gun manufacturer, told Deutsche Welle said that business with Ukraine is “growing”.
According to him, the company has already sent or is planning to transfer almost 700 armored vehicles of various types to the Ukrainian army, including pavers, armored evacuation vehicles and other engineering equipment.
“The company has already participated in arms deliveries when it was not yet politically profitable to supply battle tanks,” said Bureaus.
