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Three defense companies will be involved in the project.
Ukraine in 2019 will start mass production of its own Verba multiple launch rocket system.
Oleg Turinskiy, Director of the Shepetivskiy Repair Plant, which is part of the Ukroboronprom state concern, where the MLRS will be manufactured, says the tests had already been completed and the system had been accepted for service in the Ukrainian Army, Censor.NET reported.
"On February 11-16, our plant's team worked at the state-owned Kharkiv-based Morozov Engineering Design Bureau, which is the Verba developer. We studied design documentation and all features of this system," he said.
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Turinskiy said that cooperation was being established between the plant, the design bureau, and another company involved in the project, namely the state-owned Lviv-based Lorta plant, the largest manufacturer of radio electronics.
"Production of the Verba MLRS will begin in 2019," the official said.