The company Dok-ing, a global leader in the production of specialized equipment and remote-controlled machines, today demonstrated the new, technologically advanced remote-controlled firefighting vehicle, MVF-5, in Ivanić Grad.
This unique firefighting machine, produced in Croatia, is designed for extinguishing fires in hazardous and inaccessible areas such as chemical and oil industrial facilities, nuclear power plants, ammunition depots, and flammable materials, as well as in all areas where there is a high risk of explosion or evaporation of hazardous substances. In such situations, access for conventional firefighting vehicles is not possible without risk to firefighters, while the MVF-5 can approach the fire in these situations as the operator controls the machine from a great distance. Dok-ing is also known to the global public for two firefighting machines, predecessors of the MVF-5. Jelka 4 and Jelka 10 were constructed at the request of the Ministry of the Russian Federation for Civil Defense, Emergency Situations, and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters (EMERCOM of Russia). These machines successfully participated in extinguishing large fires and protecting a nuclear power plant in Russia this summer. Sergey Tsarichenko, Deputy Director of the Russian Scientific Research Institute for Fire Protection, expressed satisfaction and good experiences with these products.
– Based on our previous experience with Jelka 4 and Jelka 10, we developed a modified version of these machines – MVF-5 – at the beginning of this year. Compared to its predecessors, the new machine has an increased capacity for water and foam tanks, more advanced and stronger engineering equipment, a redesigned vehicle and supporting hydraulic arms, and we have also developed additional vehicle tracking systems (GPS-INS) and person recognition systems, which will be used as additional equipment, said Vjekoslav Majetić, owner and CEO of DOK-ING. There is significant interest from Russian customers for the MVF-5, and negotiations for orders are ongoing. The Russian government particularly supports such projects and plans to procure 100 robotic firefighting vehicles by 2013. In negotiations, the Russians offered to relocate part of the production to Russia, which is one of the essential bases for the offer from the Russian side. – Due to the special regime of the facilities that these vehicles will access in Russia, as well as the variable nature of their purpose, it would be easier to relocate part of the production and maintenance in the form of cooperation to Russia, Tsarichenko stated.
