MOSCOW. June 17 (Interfax) - The Tula-based Oktava plant of the Rostec state corporation has delivered the first batch of Obereg-S engineer body armor to a humanitarian demining group for use in new Russian regions, the Rostec press service said.
"Our Obereg-S passed every trial, and we shipped a batch of equipment to an engineering group conducting humanitarian demining in new Russian regions," the Rostec press service quoted Oktava General Director Pavel Pavlenko as saying.
The clearance of numerous mines and dud munitions in the Lugansk and Donetsk people's republics and the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions requires using special equipment, Rostec said.
"Unlike its counterparts, Obereg-S is light, mobile and has a wide shrapnel protection area," it said.