The Pugnacious Amorality - Azov Battalion - The radical force changing the ways of the warfare logic!

Azov Battalion - Полк Азов - became the most interesting force for battle in modern days, re-writting the capability of warfare and the methods of enlistment in Crimea, forcing the Ukraine to implement new politicians and Russia to adopt methods of warfare unconventional under its own territory.

Azov Battalion started with a guerrilla to promote ultranationalism and promote the restablization of Ukrainian territory and it later became an ideological guerrilla, to promote political ideology and a new society model, that requests for capability of survive, children's education and ideological propaganda of Ukraine pre-christian traditios.

The one called Misanthropic Division is a name to promote restablization of the Ukraine at it's spiritual core, with metaphisical conceptions of society at it's more amoral form of living, with a regiment restore the human to it's warriors origins, with the blood of the ancients remembering at it's momentum.

The start of new conspiracies under the christian conspirators are going beyond the reasonable method of analysis, where the analysis goes, also, to a Satanic conspiration against the West, when it really came to the restablization to the East and the dream of freedom and Ukraine as a superpower.

The ultra right analysis still goes beyond the capability of the media and the observers to understand the idea beyond the groups like Azov, or Golden Dawn in Greece, where it can be explained by the fail of the Socialism in worldwide and the anti-Capitalistic propaganda, that only made an unity of ideologies of consumption and corruption of society under the legality of drug traffick for exemple.

Blame it on Weast. The uncapability of re-built Europe and maintain the organism working close to ex-U.R.S.S. borders when it could, and witha  failed economic assistance to ruined Europe, made the East promote ex-Soviets search for their core, and the failing system of Christianity as a religion uncapable to sustain itself by an stablished economy, made Ukraine a cradle for the new generation youth against the nowadays paradigm. Not only by Azov, but by the national spirit that arose in Ukraine after the Wall. This spirit spread over Greece, Macedonia, even in USA with local extremists.

The idea of Avoz is to promote an army capable to restore the Ukraine's unity and justify the ends by it's means. The war crimes at Crimea were growing and the anexation of a territory by military forces was considered an agression, and the local population started the 'going against'.

The promotion of the ultra nationalist ideas is a place to other Slavs with the same ideology, that is prohibited in many countries that are economicaly supported by philantropic organizations and banks, like International Banks and George Soros, and in Ukraine the idea is to finish with this world wide logic of enslament for society and raise a national economy, growing ever...

The battalion showed to be involved with local armies to support the hegenomy of other nations and the will to power of national groups to restore their nations history, and remember the other's unities, not an universal society under a world's governments like UN or Vatican politics of 'everyone's under god.

The regiment returned to actions to recruiting and training new members in their camps and participating in public armies and units. The capability includes motorized infantry battalions, supported by mortars batteries of 120 and 82 millimeters, D-30 Howitzer force, T-64 tanks company and infiltration, reconnaissance squad, intelligence and Drone operations, sniper platoon, K-9 team and logistics.

Also, the group counts with a engeneering division that makes prototypes of vehicles and other parafernalia to promote logistics and combining tactical advancement and direct firepower, with quick and faster actions. Last year, in 2018, the group of engineers presented a fast attack vehicles capable to prevail battle tanks with anti tank ammunition, combined with a light vehicle speed maneuvers.

This strategical sub-division of the battalion is very important to the maneuvers through the battle, as the combination of Long Range battles in a small warfare scenarium, and military and paramilitary actions, can run off the asymmetric warfare capability at its nonlinear battle giving advancement and advantage in the operational scenarium.


the vehicle is a Buddy with a long range firepower, anti tank and anti aircraft capability, with some balance through the wheels and capability of speed, to dodge the higher and destructive firepower during a conflict.

But, Azov is not operating at war zones, because the political decisions to take off the regiment to war, and is waiting the decision of Azov to became a party and promote political means in country.

By Redbeard's words, "Authority is not an evil in itself. It is as natural for men of Power to rule Feeble multitudes, as it is for the lion to eat the lamb." The promotion of nation not under a hegemonic country, with the military capability and natural belonging spirit of nations, strenghtens laces and endures freedom. "When any nation, or class of men possess no real might, it is just and proper that they should be subordinated; and again, if they develop the requisite strength it is equally justifiable for them to reconquer their former position; and subordinate their subordinators. Evolution works through Authority but there is to it no limitation." The Avov became an evolution to the military power nowadays. With restablization of a Machiavelian warfare, used by Napoleon to justify the new era, the era of democracy and the evolutive proccess of the complex society.

After the decades of Socialistic governments and the globalists, the natural proccess of the governments and societies is to regret the modernity and restore the historic past. Promoting new meaning to people, beliving that there can be a successful future to new generations.

There is no real interest in war as it has in politics, but be armed can show that a nation cannot be enslaved without drop its blood.

This pugnacious logic is seem at same way in Wagner's battalions, the Turan psyops, with personal capable to operate in conflict zones with long range capability and hybrid strategy, but promoting an ideological clash with new politics and under the idea of geopolitical influence and projection.

The new battalions goes beyond the moral understanding for international relations observers that only preaches a regret at world's politics, by the end of Socialism and laws to promote social pathologies, like support of immigration and criminalize the nationalism.

Azov's leaders contantly are denying they are a racist or nazist group, they claim theirselves ultranationalists, and constantly are trying to promote their politics, and there is no interest on regret the complex society to a society divisional politic, but to make a core with Ukrainians are united to their country.

The reality is that the corruption of governments and promotion of racism in society and enslave the society by taxes, dividing the society under many small groups, made these groups to fight to their interestes, see in Africa, India, South America the new rights comming and promoting nationalist politics. But to Azov, the question is that they go against everything, right and left, they promote their own politics, and world's is afraid of nationalism and pre-Christian values of society and faith. Anything that can show that there is a new position, fears the international observers.

After more than 3 years in bases, Azov Regiment returns to front

https://www.kyivpost.com/ukraine-politics/after-more-than-three-years-in-bases-azov-regiment-returns-to-front.html

After more than three years of being effectively confined to barracks, the Azov Regiment, part of Ukraine’s National Guard, is returning to the Donbas war zone in a full combat deployment.

The formation, which presents itself as a combined arms special task unit, said on Feb. 1 its troops had been attached to the 30th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces to fulfill combat missions “in the Joint Forces Operation zone in accordance with high-command orders.”

The 30th Brigade earlier on Feb. 1 also reported that it had finished taking up their battlefront as part of normal rotation of troops in the Donbas, in coordination with the Azov Regiment.

For the Azov soldiers, it is a long-awaited return.

Despite having the reputation of being one of Ukraine’s most effective, best-maintained and best-trained combat units engaged against Russian-led forces in the Donbas, the regiment was withdrawn to the rear back in July 2015, after fighting in Shyrokyne, a devastated resort town just east of key port city of Mariupol on the Azov Sea coast.

“(We have) full confidence that Azov’s greatest battles are yet to happen,” the regiment’s press service said in comments posted on the regiment’s website.

Since its withdrawal, the Azov Regiment has remained in its bases in the resort towns of Yuriivka and Urzuf southwest of Mariupol, although it continued recruiting and intensely training its troops, as well as participating in major training exercises with army units.

The force has expanded to include two motorized infantry battalions supported by 120- and 82-millimeter mortar batteries, a D‑30 howitzer force, a T‑64 tank company, a reconnaissance squad, a drone reconnaissance service, a sniper platoon, a canine team, and a highly developed logistics service.

But despite numerous requests to high military command for combat deployment, the Azov Battalion was kept away from the war zone. As the regiment’s chief executive officer Lieutenant Igor Klymenko said in an interview with the Kyiv Post in late December 2017, the military leadership was reluctant to make “a political decision” to give the order to return the regiment to war.

However, according to the regiment’s officers, some of Azov’s troops were nonetheless occasionally given certain combat missions at the front.

In 2018 alone, at least three of its fighters were killed in action.

Azov’s long exile from the front line was connected to the controversies that have followed the force ever since its creation as a volunteer battalion of civilians in the early days of Russia’s war in the Donbas in spring 2014.

The Azov was severely criticized for harboring neo-Nazis and far-right radicals, including ones from outside of Ukraine, within its ranks, and for its use of Nazi symbols. In particular, the regiment’s official insignia bears a reversed image of Wolfsangel, a sign used particularly by the SS Panzer Division “Das Reich” of Nazi Germany during World War II.

Other than that, the regiment’s founder Andriy Biletskiy, currently a member of parliament and the leader of the far-right National Corps political party as well as of the organization Patriot of Ukraine, which is deemed by some observers to be a neo-Nazi and racist extremist movement.

Azov soldiers are also known to practice elements of Nordic and Slavic Pagan traditions and rituals.

And since 2015, the Azov Regiment has been banned from receiving military aid from the United States.

The Azov Regiment strongly denies all accusations of being a neo-Nazi armed force, and insists its soldiers have moderate right-wing nationalistic views and a passionate desire to defend Ukraine.

The regiment emphasizes its self-reliance and independence from central authority in its development as a combat force. It set up its own boot camp near Urzuf, with several firing ranges, a tank training ground, barracks for recruits, and a training area for close quarters combat training, allegedly all at its own expense.

In late 2018, the force also presented a prototype of multipurpose fast attack vehicle of their own design and making, proposing it as a future workhorse for Ukraine’s highly-mobile special task teams in action.

Golden Dawn militants in Greece. Far Right movement with neo-Pagan and pre-Christian values

The US is Arming and Assisting Neo-Nazis in Ukraine, While Congress Debates Prohibition

https://therealnews.com/columns/the-us-is-arming-and-assisting-neo-nazis-in-ukraine-while-congress-debates-prohibition

Last November, an American military inspection team visited the Azov Battalion on the front lines of the Ukrainian civil war to discuss logistics and deepening cooperation. Images of the encounter showed American army officers poring over maps with their Ukrainian counterparts, palling around and ignoring the Nazi-inspired Wolfangel patches emblazoned on their sleeves.

Azov is a militia that has been incorporated into the Ukrainian National Guard, and is considered one of the most effective units in the field against pro-Russian separatists. But it also widely known as a bastion of neo-Nazism within the ranks of the Ukrainian military that has been criticized by international human rights groups, tied to an international fascist network and even a major terror plot.

According to Lower Class Magazine, a leftist German publication, Azov maintains a semi-underground outfit called the “Misanthropic Division” that recruits heavily among the ranks of neo-Nazi youth in France, Germany and Scandinavia. Foreign fighters are promised training with heavy weapons, including tanks, at Ukrainian camps filled with fascist fellow travelers. They even include military veterans like Mikael Skillit, a Swedish former army sniper turned neo-Nazi volunteer for Azov. “After World War Two, the victors wrote their history,” Skillit told the BBC. “They decided that it’s always a bad thing to say I am white and I am proud.”

Foreign Azov volunteers are driven by the call of the “Reconquista,” or the mission to place eastern European nations under the control of a white supremacist dictatorship modeled after the Nazi Reichskommissariat dictatorship that ruled Ukraine during World War II. The mission is promoted effusively by Azov’s chief ideologue, Andriy Biletsky, a veteran fascist organizer who leads the Social National Assembly in Ukraine’s parliament. Biletsky’s assembly has pledged to outlaw interracial contacts and vowed “to prepare Ukraine for further expansion and to struggle for the liberation of the entire White Race from the domination of the internationalist speculative capital.”

Perhaps the most notorious of the racist European youth drawn to the military training camps of Ukraine was a 25-year-old French farm worker named Gregoire Montaux. In June 2016, Moutaux was arrested on Ukraine’s border by the country’s SBU security services with a staggering arsenal of assault rifles, thousands of rounds of ammunition and 125kg of TNT explosives. He had even managed to gain possession of two anti-tank grenade launchers.

Driven by hardcore neo-Nazi ideology, Moutaux planned to blow up a “a Muslim mosque, a Jewish synagogue, tax collection organizations, police patrol units,” and attack the Euro 2016 soccer championship. According to the SBU, the would-be terrorist had been in communication “with military units fighting in Donbas” — the eastern Ukrainian area where Azov maintains its training camps.

While mobilizing racist youth across Europe, Azov leadership has also managed to foster a warm relationship with the American military. In one photo posted to Azov’s website last November, an American military officer can be seen shaking hands with an Azov officer whose uniform was emblazoned with the Nazi-inspired Wolfsangel patch that serves as the militia’s symbol. The images highlighted a burgeoning relationship that has been largely conducted in secret, but whose disturbing details are slowly emerging.

Though Washington has not embarked on anything in Ukraine like the billion dollar train-and-equip program it implemented in Syria to promote regime change through a proxy force of so-called “moderate rebels,” there are clear and disturbing similarities between the two projects. Just as heavy weapons ostensibly intended for the CIA-backed Free Syrian Army went straight into the hands of Salafi-jihadi insurgent forces, including ISIS, American weapons in Ukraine are flowing directly to the extremists of Azov. And once again, in its single minded determination to turn up the heat on Russia, Washington seems willing to ignore the unsettling political orientations of its front line proxies.

In recent months, a wide spectrum of observers of the Ukrainian civil war have documented the transfer of heavy weapons made in the USA to the Azov Battalion, and right under the nose of the US State Department.

Made in Texas, tested by Azov

The story of how American arms began flowing towards the Nazi-inspired militia began in October 2016, when the Texas-based AirTronic company announced a contract to deliver $5.5 million dollars worth of PSRL-1 rocket propelled grenade launchers to “an Allied European military customer.” In June 2017, photos turned up on Azov’s website showing its fighters testing PSRL-1 grenade launchers in the field. The images raised questions about whether Ukraine was AirTronic’s unnamed “customer.”

Two months later, the pro-Russian military analysis site Southfront published a leaked contract indicating that 100 PSRL-1 Launchers worth $554,575 — about 1/10th of the total deal — had been produced in partnership with a Ukrainian arms company for distribution to the country’s fighting units.

In an interview last December with the US-backed Voice of America, AirTronic Chief Operating Officer Richard Vandiver emphasized that the sale of grenade launchers was authorized through “very close coordination with the U.S. Embassy, with the U.S. State Department, with the U.S. Pentagon and with the Ukrainian government.”

Finally, this January, the transfer of the lethal weapons to Azov was confirmed by the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRL). Aric Toler, a DFRL researcher, asserted that “the US Embassy did absolutely help facilitate this transfer, and I’m not sure if they were aware that Azov would be the first to train with them.”

As NATO’s de facto lobbyist in Washington, and one of the most fervent advocates in Washington for arming the Ukrainian military, the Atlantic Council was an extremely unlikely source for such a disclosure. While the think tank’s motives for exposing Azov’s use of American arms remains unclear, its researchers wound up highlighting a truly scandalous episode of semi-covert American support for neo-Nazis.

A day after the Atlantic Council reported on Azov’s acquisition of American arms, the Ukrainian National Guard insisted in an official statement that the grenade launchers were no longer in Azov’s possession. Meanwhile, the heightened scrutiny prompted Azov to delete all photos of its soldiers testing the weapons.

When the House of Representatives passed its Defense Appropriations act last September, it included a provision ensuring that “none of the funds made available by this Act may be used to provide arms, training, or other assistance to the Azov Battalion.” But the provision has yet to be authorized. Back in 2015, pressure from the Pentagon prompted Congress to strip out a similar restriction, and questions remain about whether it will ever be enforced.

In the meantime, Azov officers like Sgt. Ivan Kharkiv have revealed to American reporters that “U.S. trainers and U.S. volunteers” have been working closely with his battalion. And as the photographs posted in November on Azov’s website indicated, US officers have met with Azov commanders two months to provide them with  “training, or other assistance” that is explicitly forbidden by the congressional provision.

“Your struggle is our struggle”

The American government’s collaboration with committed Nazi ideologues to undercut Russian geopolitical goals is not new, nor has it been a particularly well-kept secret. In his 1988 book length expose, “Blowback,” investigative journalist Christopher Simpson lifted the cover off the CIA’s program of rehabilitating former assets of Nazi Germany, including documented war criminals, and revealed how it employed them counter the spread of communism in Europe.

 The CIA smuggled former Nazi collaborator Mykola Lebed (above) into the US under an assumed name

According to Simpson, the CIA recruited Mykola Lebed, a Gestapo-trained leader of the Ukrainian OUN militia who oversaw the torture and slaughter of Jews in Krakow, to help bolster West Germany’s intelligence services in 1947. Two years later, the CIA smuggled Lebed into the US under a false name. He was promptly hired by the Pentagon and dispatched on widely promoted speaking tours that rallied support for Ukrainian guerillas. For the next several decades, Lebed advanced the anti-communist cause through the Prolog Research Corporation, a New York City-based publishing house that was eventually revealed as a CIA front.

In his 1991 book, “Old Nazis, the New Right, and the Republican Party, journalist Russ Bellant provided a new layer of disturbing detail to the history of US collaboration with former Ukrainian Nazis. Bellant documented how the Ukrainian OUN-B militia reconstituted under the banner of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America (UCCA), an umbrella organization comprised of “complete OUN-B fronts.” The Reagan administration was honeycombed with UCCA members, with the group’s chairman Lev Dobriansky, serving as ambassador to the Bahamas, and his daughter, Paula, sitting on the National Security Council. Reagan even welcomed Jaroslav Stetsko, a Banderist leader who oversaw the massacre of 7000 Jews in Lviv, into the White House in 1983.

“Your struggle is our struggle,” Reagan told the former Nazi collaborator. “Your dream is our dream.”

The “imaginary Nazis” come to life

The relationship came full circle after the corrupt but democratically elected Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych was ousted in the 2014 coup known as Euro-Maidan. From the ranks of the neo-fascist street toughs that waged a pitched battle against national riot police in Kiev’s Maidan Square, the Azov Battalion was formed to do battle with pro-Russian separatists in the country’s east. The militia’s commander, Andriy Biletsky, had earned his stripes as a leader of the fascist group, Patriot of Ukraine. And he made no secret of his Nazism, proclaiming that his mission was to “lead the White Races of the world in a final crusade for their survival… against the Semite-led Untermenschen.”

At the time, supporters of the NATO-inspired coup painted any and all reports of the presence of neo-Nazis in post-Maidan Ukraine as Kremlin propaganda. Jamie Kirchick, a neoconservative operative, made the most obtuse attempt at spinning the fascist surge in Ukraine, erasing militias like Azov as “Putin’s Imaginary Nazis.” Liberal historian Timothy Snyder also dismissed the problem of neo-Nazism in Ukraine, defending the Maidan putsch as “a classic popular revolution.”

But it was not long before the wave of Nazi nostalgia and anti-Semitism sweeping across the country became impossible to deny. In Ukraine’s parliament, the veteran fascist Social-National Party founder Andriy Parubiy has risen to the role of Speaker. Vadym Troyan, a leader of Biletsky’s neo-Nazi Patriot of Ukraine organization who served as a deputy commander of Azov, was appointed police chief of the province of Kiev.

Torchlit rallies celebrating Nazi collaborators like Stepan Bandera have become a ritual in Kiev

Massive torchlit rallies pour out into the streets of Kiev on regular occasions, showcasing columns of Azov members marching beneath the Nazi-inspired Wolfsangel banner that serves as the militia’s symbol. Author and columnist Lev Golinkin noted that the neo-Nazis who violently paraded through Charlottesville, Virginia last year bore flags emblazoned with the another symbol displayed by Azov: the Sonnengrad, or Nazi SS-inspired black sun.

Across Ukraine, Nazi collaborators like Stepan Bandera have been celebrated with memorials and rallies proclaiming them as national heroes. Bandera was the commander of the wartime militia the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN-B), which fought alongside Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union. Despite his OUN-B militia’s role in the massacre of Jews and ethnic Poles during the war, including a pogrom that left 7,000 Jews dead in Lviv, a major boulevard in Kiev has been named for Bandera. In today’s Ukraine, even mainstream nationalists revere Bandera as a freedom fighter.

Last May, Azov supporters held a torchlit rally in Lviv, in honor of General Roman Shukhevych, the late commander of the UPA insurgent militia that helped massacre thousands of Jews in Lviv. (Ironically, the massacre has been documented in detail by Timothy Snyder, the historian-turned-apologist for Ukraine’s government).

Two months later — on the anniversary of the pogrom — the city of Lviv held “Shukhevychfest,” celebrating the blood stained general as a “successful musician, an athlete, a businessman.” During the festival, neo-Nazis tossed a molotov cocktail into a local synagogue and vandalized the Jewish house of worship with graffiti reading, “Yids, remember July 1 [the date of the Lviv massacre].”

The explosion of pro-Nazi memorials across Ukraine has provoked harsh condemnation from the World Jewish Congress and prompted anti-Nazi activist Efraim Zuroff to openly lament that “Ukraine has more statues for killers of Jews than any other country.” But even as Ukraine’s Jewish community reels at the developments in horror, the US government has been mostly silent.

American reporters who visited Azov in the field have had a much harder time denying the uncomfortable reality of Nazi mobilization, however. When USA Today’s Oren Dorell toured an Azov training camp, he met a drill sergeant named Alex who “admitted he is a Nazi and said with a laugh that no more than half his comrades are fellow Nazis.” The Azov soldier also told Dorell he “supports strong leadership for Ukraine, like Germany during World War II.”

“[Alex] vowed that when the war ends, his comrades will march on the capital, Kiev, to oust a government they consider corrupt,” Dorell reported. Another Azov volunteer told the Guardian that Ukraine needs “a junta that will restrict civil rights for a while but help bring order and unite the country.”

While the hapless liberal-oligarchic government in Kiev struggles for legitimacy, the neo-Nazis of Azov yearn for the “Reconquista.” Until their dream is realized, however, the militia is likely to be bogged down in an intractable conflict with pro-Russian forces and hoping that an influx of American weapons can turn the tide.

Azov engineers present new light strike vehicle prototype
https://www.kyivpost.com/ukraine-politics/azov-engineers-present-new-light-strike-vehicle-prototype.html

STARE, Ukraine — The era in which armadas of heavy beasts of armor dominated the ground in battlefields is drawing to a close.

The newest trends of land warfare, with its surge of guided anti-tank missiles, as well as the asymmetric nature of today’s wars, are about to put lead-footed tanks on the retired list in the nearest decades.

The modern warfare is now about highly mobile, small combat groups on fast attack vehicles that can prevail in battle thanks to their maneuver superiority and strong firepower.

Many of the world’s leading militaries, such the United States, or its NATO allies — and now also Russia as well — put their stakes on equipping their special forces with light combat off-roaders. But Ukraine, which has been paying the wages of the Kremlin’s four-year-long proxy war in the Donbas, is still very far from taking any practical steps in this domain.

However, engineers and veterans of the Azov Regiment, part of Ukraine’s National Guards, propose their own answer to this problem. Through 2018, they, by their own efforts, have developed and constructed a brand new design of a light strike vehicle for highly mobile combat teams, which, as they hope, the Ukrainian military desperately needs to add to their armory in the Donbas war zone.

After nearly a year of engineering, production, and tests in the challenging terrains of Ukraine’s Azov Sea coastline, the constructors proudly presented the vehicle’s first working prototype on Dec. 8 at a National Guard firing range near the village of Stare some 50 kilometers southeast of Kyiv.

The prototype has got no special technical title yet, but the designers call it simply, and lovingly, The Buggy.

Modular platform

Approximately since after the Gulf War of the early 1990s, various types of fast attack vehicles have gradually become workhorses for many of the most prominent special operations forces, such as the United States Navy SEALs, or British Special Air Service (SAS), especially since their activities involved scouting missions or hit-and-run raids in difficult terrain such as the desert.

Russia, amid its expansion of the past few years, also progresses in this direction, mastering their own designs of fast attack vehicles for its Spetsnaz forces in Syria and in the Arctic.

In Ukraine’s arsenal, this class of military hardware was never fully presented, although some marine and airborne units successfully operate a number of Humvee armored cars, a loosely allied species of light combat vehicles provided by the United States as part of its military aid.

The design of Azov’s Buggy appeared to be a mixture of the Humvee, with its off-road power, and sand-rail desert patrol vehicles with their lightness, high mobility and speed.

The uncovered prototype hosted a 360-degree turret chest with a 12.7-millimeter DShK-M heavy machine gun. However, according to the designers, in next few months, they will also present three new variants of weapon set for the vehicle, featuring a 30-millimeter AGS-17 automatic grenade launcher, or a 120-millimeter mortar, or an anti-tank guided missile complex, respectively.

“It is a universal platform in which one can install various weapon sets for certain needs for specific combat missions, such as scouting and reconnaissance, medical evacuation, troop transportation, communications support, et cetera,” the constructors told the Kyiv Post.

Besides, a new digital module for stabilization and fire control was being developed to ensure proper functioning of anti-tank weaponry on the Buggy.

If incorporated in the military, such a fast attack vehicle should be in extremely high demand for Ukraine’s Special Operations formations, as well in more conventional airmobile and infantry ranks, the developers believe.

“Everyone understands that a modern war is a highly mobile war,” said Serhiy Yakymchuk, a retired Azov company leader and one of the Buggy project’s masterminds. “The edge of it is that the whole force depends on the speed of every single battle squad in it. And besides, small combat teams are also getting more and more important with every year.”

Through the dirt

Since the Buggy was designed to be operated in the stiff and road-less terrains of Ukraine’s east, the constructors opted to put their stakes on high engine yield and strong running gear.

So far, the prototype features a 4×4 drive, independent suspension, and a 2.5-liter, 99-horsepower turbo diesel engine. The 1,600-kilogram vehicle carries up to 1,000 kilograms of working load and can gain the speed of up to 145 kilometers per hour on a highway, or up to 110 kilometers per hour in road-less terrain, with a maximum cruising range of 500 kilometers.

The designers said that during its drive tests, the Buggy demonstrated very high terrain-crossing capacity. In particular, thanks to the design of the front-wheel drive, the vehicle can jump over obstacles up to 1.2 meters high as its wheels clash with it at an angle of 90 degrees.

The vehicle’s running gear was designed in compliance with the so-called Lamborghini protocol, in compliance to which the Buggy’s weight was equally spread among all four wheels, with imprecision reaching no more than around 1 percent.

“This gives us very high reliability,” said Oleksandr Gordeyev, a military engineer and one of the Buggy’s designers. “This car is very hard to get rolled over.”

Besides, he added, an operator can regulate the vehicle’s suspension stiffness to adjust it for the most comfortable carrying of certain weapons while riding off-road terrains in combat.

In general, during the public tests at the firing ground, the vehicle demonstrated considerably effective absorption of shocks as it dashed through banks of snow and sand, to the extent that it could potentially ensure delivering rather comfortable rifle fire by its crew members in high-speed driving.

Quickly in, quickly out

Another feature that differs Buggy from its elder American kin is that it falls short of protecting its crew with any armor, for the sake of higher mobility and agility of troopers in combat.

The framework was intentionally designed to let soldiers get in and out of the vehicle easy and fast.

“This seems to be a very minor detail,” engineer Gordeyev explained. “But you should try and step into a car with your full combat gear on. You can’t jump in or out when you need to, and you’re much less functional. For that purpose, we build the framework with special loose entrances so that a soldier in full combat gear could slip in very quickly and easily.”

Besides, he added, due to the absence of armor screens, the vehicle is much less noticeable for enemy fire.

“It is important to bear in mind that given the fact that virtually all armies in the world now use munitions of hard-alloy materials, the light armor on vehicles is nothing but just self-deception. Instead of that, we propose to take advantage from speed, maneuvering capacity, and combat readiness.”

“The whole crew is the vehicle’s eyes, and all of them, except for the driver, can deliver fire during the movement.”

The constructors also stressed that the Buggy is a volunteer project and that most of its running gear components had been constructed with parts designed and produced by the Azov’s engineering team and other volunteering constructors, including war veterans.

They were not ready to unveil the total cost of production of their vehicles, but, according to them, equipping the Ukrainian military formations with the Buggy would be much cheaper than procuring similar troop carriers abroad.