Ratel and Tencore launch mobile UGV repair workshops to work with combat units

Starting this December, Ukrainian UGV manufacturers Ratel and Tencore will deploy a mobile service team that will travel directly to military units to maintain and repair robotic platforms, according to Ratel founder Taras Ostapchuk.

The mobile workshops will provide diagnostics, repairs, software updates and upgrades. As Ostapchuk noted, service teams will operate directly where the unit is stationed. This will reduce equipment downtime and allow robots to return to the battlefield with minimal delays.

The mobile workshop, built on a Volkswagen base, is equipped with a lifting crane and a winch for evacuating equipment; solar panels and an inverter provide up to six hours of autonomous operation. Inside, there are several workstations, a lathe and a drilling machine, as well as a full set of hand tools for metalworking, welding, soldering components, and refining microcircuits. The workshop has already entered serial production and is being prepared for codification.

Ratel supplies the front line with ground robotic systems, including the Ratel H and Ratel M, as well as demining UGVs and electric stretchers. UGVs of the Ratel family can perform both combat and logistical missions, and one of them has also been successfully used for casualty evacuation.

Tencore manufactures one of the most widely used UGVs – the TerMIT. The updated version of the system can perform logistical tasks and supports the integration of both strike turrets and minelaying modules for deploying anti-tank mines. The company is also known to be developing a model equipped with an evacuation capsule.