“Today we symbolically open this workshop, which is an important element of equipping our army,” said Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė. “It is not only important that we strengthen our army ourselves, buy new weapons, new equipment, trust our partners, (…) it is also very important that everything around us helps our army to function smoothly like clockwork.”
She emphasized that the opening of such facilities proves that the country’s defense has grown from the times when funding was sufficient only for soldiers’ salaries, and weapons were often donated.
“What the ongoing war in Ukraine proves – that logistics is neither a stepdaughter nor a third sister, but a very important part of the army’s functioning, and we have moved beyond the basic needs of that stage,” said the Head of the Government.
Colonel Arūnas Dzidzevičius, the commander of the Logistics Board of the Lithuanian Armed Forces, also spoke about this, noting that logistics is receiving significantly more attention.
“If we used to say with envy that artillery is the queen of the battle, we see that now another queen appears in the battle – logistics. It’s nice that today maybe her majesty is Princess Logistics, but it’s already an inspiration for us that we’re no longer in the place of a stepdaughter,” he asserted.
According to the Minister of National Defense, Arvydas Anušauskas, after the installation of this workshop, “the army will have a place to store additional, much larger supplies, which they could use immediately if necessary, they will have a place to park and repair their equipment when necessary.”
Approximately 4.5 thousand 22 repair places are installed in the area of square meters, about one hundred soldiers work here.
Eight places are reserved for wheeled armored vehicles, that is, for infantry fighting vehicles “Wolf”, six for trucks, four each for tracked vehicles and all-terrain vehicles.
The most complex repair work that requires high qualifications is performed here: engines, gearboxes are replaced, chassis are installed, armament is serviced, turrets are serviced.
Repair works last from a few hours to days, and equipment operated in other regions is also repaired here.
“Practically, we can do everything here, because we have large reserves, stocks of parts,” said A. Dzidzevičius.
The Lithuanian army aims to have several such workshops.
Allies could also repair their equipment there, there is constant cooperation and information exchange with them, and technicians go to courses in the United States and Germany.
The workshop in Rukla was built by the company “Jungtiniai projektai”, the value of the works is 12 million. euros.
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