Up to 3 thousand euros per ton of tank. Is it possible to earn for sale of burned -out Russian equipment
If you collect all the destroyed equipment from the beginning of the war, which are tanks, APC and BMP, planes and rockets, after its processing for scrap will be released 1 million tons, was calculated by the chairman of the expert-scientific council of the Ukrainian Association of Secondary Metals Alexander Sheiko in an interview with a radio station. If you hand over the T-72 tank to scrap, one ton in Ukraine will cost about UAH 6,000, and the tank itself weighs up to 45 tons.
And in European countries, the price rises to 2-3 thousand euros per tonne. The cutting of the armor requires special equipment because it is made of high -alloy steel, which is added nickel, chromium and molybdenum. "We have counted about 4. 5 billion euros of potential investments that can be invested in foreign companies in processing this scrap," says Alexander Sheiko.
Fully destroyed equipment of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation is used as museum exhibits, for example, as in Mikhailovskaya Square in the center of Kiev. In addition to the tanks, the exhibition presents the howitzer "MSTA-C" and the anti-aircraft missile complex "Armory", destroyed by Ukrainian defenders. The captured and damaged Russian trophies are divided into three categories.
The first has minor damage, such specimens restore the repair crews of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces, says focus expert on armored vehicles, an officer of tank troops retired by Nikolai Salamakh. Armored plants also send their specialists for inspection and repair. The second category of trophies requires more serious repair and if they are registered, the central armored department in the Armed Forces sends it to factories or to repair shelves.
"The third category is unusable repair, and used as spare parts donors. The surviving units and units for repair of other trophy machines of the same class are removed. In a month, it is really possible to repair about 1/4 of the amount of enemy equipment that emerges, and half - about 3 months . Up to a third of military trophies fall into the workshops in an unusable condition, " - explained the specialist.
The melting of military armor for the production of other weapons, a new tank or armored personnel carrier is a difficult thing. According to the expert, the metallurgical enterprises of Ukraine in the conditions of a full -scale war are in the risk zone and will not take such things. There are no stoves for melting of high alloy steel with a capacity of 10 to 100 tons at the enterprises. Nobody will be engaged in resale of military metal in EU countries in the context of hostilities.
The first command of the command now is to find weapons and ammunition, the expert says. Dmitry Terekhov, director of the steelmilling department of the metallurgical enterprise "Arcelor Mittal Mitlur, in communication with the Air Force, stated that military scrap on destroyed machinery for metallurgical production was not very interesting. "The high costs of processing military scrap do not allow it to sell it freely in the market," he said briefly.
Oleksandr Sheiko adds that another problem in dealing with the burnt equipment of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation is the registration of ownership of it. Trophies could be fixed to territorial communities, military units or people in which it stands. Another unresolved and important question is the danger of mines or the presence of ammunition in the APC or tanks. Recall that the United Kingdom studies Russian weapons, which the Armed Forces have been captured as trophies.