TRB - Tehnički Remont Bratunac
Official logo of TRB - Tehnički Remont Bratunac | |
Native name | Технички Ремонт Братунац - ТРБ / Tehnički Remont Bratunac - TRB |
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| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Industry | Defense |
| Founded 📆 | 1955 |
| Founder 👔 | |
| Headquarters 🏙️ | , Podgradačka 11, Bratunac , Bosnia and Hercegovina |
Area served 🗺️ | Worldwide |
Key people | Slaven Ristić (General director) |
| Products 📟 | Small arms Combat vehicles Munitions Deminers |
| Services | Civilian Program Vehicle systems Armament overhaul Capability development Technology and Knowledge transfer Turnkey Solutions |
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Number of employees | |
| 🌐 Website | www |
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TRB - Tehnički Remont Bratunac (Serbian: Технички Ремонт Братунац, romanized: Tehnički Remont Bratunac)) is a defence and security company engaged in the engineering, development, design, manufacture, integration and maintenance of weapons systems, products, projects and services. With a 65 years of history in the defence industry, TRB is the biggest defence industry company in the Serbian entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a portfolio of products and solutions for application in military and civilian systems.
Based in Bratunac, Bosnia and Hercegovina - TRB employs around 500 people and operates around 22,000 m2 of factory space.
History[edit]
Tehnicko Remontni Zavod Bratunac (Technical Maintenance Institute Bratunac), known as TRB, was founded in 1955 as a state-owned enterprise with two workshops for the maintenance, repair & overhaul of vehicle systems for the Yugoslav Armed Forces (Yugoslav National Army - YNA). Over time it became an important YNA’s depot, with over 1,500 employees and 22,000 m2 of covered manufacturing and warehouse space.
Following the break-up of Yugoslavia and many issues with its operation, TRB was restructured in 1996 by a merger of the company from Hadzici and Kaolin from Bratunac as part of the Dayton Peace Accord.[1]. However, the volume of work kept decreasing as YNA, formerly TRB’s main customer, no longer existed. The company experienced a long period of negative bottom lines, lack of orders and employee dissatisfaction [2]. Things started changing when the parliament of of Republika Srpska decided to sell a large portion of the company to a South African company ELW Global while still retaining a minority stake. The process took place in 2012 and 2013 at the end of which the South African investor brought company’s finances in order and provided retirement for some long-tenured workers [3]. The retention of the government participation in the ownership structure provided a foundation of commercial contracts for TRB to develop and equip the security forces of the Serbian entity[4] which provided a stable customer for a struggling company.
Under the new leadership TRB turned to acquiring new technologies and developing new minor weapon systems for the international markets. TRB now works to design, manufacture, maintain, refurbish and upgrade the police forces of the Serbian entity of the Bosnia and Herzegovina federation, but it lacks cooperation with the other entity. This means that it equips and maintains the police forces of the Serbian entity, but has no role in the development of the federal armed forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which is a major lack in the company’s portfolio caused by political considerations [5]. Since the domestic market is comparatively small TRB also develops and sells munitions, small arms and weapon systems to international customers.
The company cooperates with both Eastern and Western partners which helps it to develop, manufacture and support products that it sells to customers abroad. To deal with its debts and worker dissatisfaction the new management made an agreement with the entity government and labor syndicate to pay 2.5 million KM of debt to workers.
Products[edit]
RS-9 Vampir[edit]
RS-9 Vampir semi-automatic pistol is the company’s first successful product since going private. It is designed to fire 9x19mm parabellum caliber rounds with a 120-140 RPM rate of fire. It has a large 18-round magazine and weighs 1.1 kilogram when fully loaded[6].
Despot[edit]
Despot is a multi-purpose, 4x4, off-road, armored vehicle developed both for the domestic forces and export. The vehicle is 6.05 m long, 2.70 m high and 2.56 wide. The maximum weight is 14 t, and the volume of the passenger area is 12 m3, which can accommodate 9 crew members. Despot claimed payload is around 3 tons [7]. The vehicle ballistic protection satisfies the STANAG 4569 level 2 protection, or optionally level 3 with upgrades. It is also protected from explosions with level 2a and 2b protection under STANAG 4569 [8]. Despot belongs to the category of armored vehicles designed to carry out a range of missions for the needs of police and armed forces. The fact that its materials are sourced from the EU countries and its low price are the main calling cards of this vehicle. It uses low alloyed ballistic protection steel with a low carbon and manganese content paired with laminated glass which gives it a STANAG 2 level of protection. It uses a combination of a V-shaped and double-layered floor paired with roof-mounted seats to satisfy the STANAG level 2A/2B blast protection.
MH-17 Demining Machine[edit]
MH-17 Demining Machine is a new concept developed in a country that still has a multitude of landmines leftover from the conflicts that the region experienced at end of the 20th century [9]. The machine is supposed to put human deminers out of harm’s way by mechanizing the entire process. Its predecessor MH-05 was used to clear over 10 million square meters of land area in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Sudan[10]. The machine uses demining tools such as a demining tiller, demining flail, vegetation cutter, universal excavator bucket with 6 functions (digging, loading, dozing, grading, backfilling, grabbing), forklift, robot arm, and others. The effective working width of demining tools is about 2.5 m while the tracks have a width of 2.28 m. Its traction drive is claimed to be capable of dealing with slopes up to 30 degrees, lateral inclination over 25 degrees, vertical obstacles up to half a meter and channels over 1.5 meters[11].
Other Products[edit]
TRB also produces other military equipment such as different kinds of ammunition fuses (for artillery, hand grenades, aerial bombs, landmines and naval mines), a multitude of small arms ammunitions [12], non-combat systems such as mobile security systems, biometrical access nodes, mobile power and water systems and has a fledgling radar systems branch[13]
Customers[edit]
One of the main TRB customers are the Republika Srpska police forces, but it’s other notable customers include Sudan (demining equipment), Armed Forces of Namibia [14] and the private weapons market in the United States of America [15]. The company is looking to expand its customer base and to make deals to sell its main security systems such as the armored vehicle Despot.
References[edit]
- ↑ "Tehnički remont Bratunac: Stalno otvoreni konkursi za posao". June 28, 2016.
- ↑ "PRVO VAMPIR, PA DESPOT Pištolj ušao u serijsku proizvodnju, oklopno vozilo proizvedeno u RS TRAŽENO U SVETU (FOTO)". Blic.rs.
- ↑ "Južnoafrički "ELW Global" kupuje "Tehnički remont" iz Bratunca?". ba.ekapija.com.
- ↑ https://trb.ba/en/about/our-history/
- ↑ Srpska, RTRS, Radio Televizija Republike Srpske, Radio Television of Republic of. "Tegeltija-Košarac: Neprihvatljivo da TRB nema saradnju sa OS BiH (FOTO/VIDEO)". PRIVREDA - RTRS.
- ↑ https://trb.ba/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Brosur-RS9-Vampir.pdf
- ↑ "Prvo oklopno vozilo - "Despot" made by RS VIDEO". B92.net.
- ↑ https://trb.ba/en/portfolio/despot/
- ↑ "Wartime Landmines Still Taking Lives in Bosnia". September 2, 2019.
- ↑ https://trb.ba/en/portfolio/mh-17/
- ↑ "TRB from Bosnia and Herzegovina presents its new demining vehicle MH-17 at Partner 2017".
- ↑ https://trb.ba/sr/portfolio/ammunition-line/
- ↑ https://trb.ba/sr/portfolio/radar-systems/
- ↑ Ćirković, Krsti-na (October 18, 2018). "U Tehničkom remontu Bratunac ugovoreni poslovi za narednu deceniju". Glas Srpske.
- ↑ "Nakon remonta, polovno naoružanje MUP-a Srpske izvezeno u Ameriku". Nezavisne novine. February 18, 2020.
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