"Shushpantsery" of Ukraine. Part of 2
With all the anti-Russian rhetoric, pro-government armed groups and the Armed Forces of Ukraine are quite actively using machines collected in the former USSR and even in Russia in combat. In this review, photo-evidences of the “shushpantserization” of equipment, mainly taken from conservation and long-term storage of the USSR arsenal, are collected. Let's start with "shishiga."
Seriously armored domestic all-terrain vehicle with installed wind and side armored windows. According to the accuracy of performance and color (pixel camouflage), we can assume that the car was booked in the factory. For example, at the Nikolaevsky diesel locomotive repair plant. It is not excluded the use of armor in the design.
Another GAZ-66 with a "pixel" color, for some reason, in the desert version. Reservation glazing is not available, but there is a blackout headlights. In the combat position of the glass shields are closed. Obviously, the car was built with funds raised by the compassionate residents of the city of Nezhin in the Chernihiv region.
"Shishiga", built on the money of those who care, from the district center Zhmerynka in Vinnytsia region. Everyone can make their own contribution to the construction of the next generation of Zhmerinka. Tuning was done in the factory, but the Ukrainian engineers once again left the doors and windows without protection.
Agree, a part of Ukrainian homemade products show an indescribable style. Soviet designers gave GAZ-66 such charisma, which is impossible to spoil.
GAZ-66 exclusively for frontal attacks. Excellent target for ATGW?
It was rather difficult to book hood equipment, so they decided to ZIL-131 (assembled, by the way, in Moscow), to arm the DShK and ZSU immediately. It turned out brutal gantrak, painted in the shop in winter camouflage. However, at the fighting post the car acquired its usual summer color.
"Black cuttlefish" and its sad end. Loss of combat or machine "has developed its resource", story is silent.
"Ginger", so named, obviously, because of the abundance of rust. Car retrofitted in artisanal conditions. Interesting crate on the body to accommodate sandbags.
ZIL-131 under the pseudonym T-150. It is named after the experimental tank or not, we do not know, but the volume of improvements removed from the storage of ZIL is very scanty.
A lot of color unmasking, frankly spoiling the appearance of the car, makes one doubt the adequacy of the people who operate the car. Gantrak obviously has to work in a combat zone - for this he has a DShK and several body armor along the sides.
The ZIL-131 vehicle is clearly designed to break up demonstrations. Abundant lattice protection will only protect against stones. Dnipropetrovsk Nikopol front.
And again KAMAZ. These cars, perhaps, became the most popular among artisanal armored trucks in the ATO zone. It affects the prevalence of the machine, and maintainability, and the availability of spare parts. By the beginning of the military operation in the south-east of Ukraine, it was KAMAZ trucks of various modifications that were the most "combat-ready" transport units. Many vehicles were requisitioned from the population and mobilized for numerous volunteer battalions. However, KAMAZ vehicles are in demand among militias.
KAMAZ of the Russian production of the Mustang family. The machine most likely belongs to the divisions of the LDNR.
A sample of equipment that exploits a high load carrying capacity of KAMAZ vehicles. Book forehead in some models decided sheets of springs.
KAMAZ dump truck for the Airborne Forces of the Ukrainian Army. Obviously, factory performance.
Another "shushpantser-KAMAZ", assembled from scraps and frank scrap metal.
Neat Novovolynsky (a town in the Volyn Oblast of Ukraine) based on KAMAZ assembled in Russian Naberezhnye Chelny. Cab reservations hidden strictly strictly factory, the glass is designed for at least AKM bullet. It may be a remake of the collection vehicle, but the body is deprived of loopholes and, obviously, a reservation.
Monstrous pepelats with folding steel panels in the frontal projection. It is noteworthy that the body ceiling is too high.
KAMAZ-4310 with well-booked side cab projections.
It is touching and cute ...
All-wheel drive Ural-4320 from Miass also became a hero of the ATO in Ukraine. He rarely becomes the object of factory tuning, but handicraft craftsmen make true crocodiles out of the car.
One of the typical pictures of the march of the combat units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the initial period of the war - cars drag on a rigid coupling of failed comrades. The tractor is equipped with a minimum set of corner armor.
One of the reasons why the Urals are respected in the army was the relatively high resistance to a mine attack in the area of the front axle. The energy of the explosion goes into the engine compartment, leaving the chances of the driver and passengers. KAMAZ has no such bonus. The photo shows a gantrak with a heavily armored muzzle surrounded by APU fighters in NATO uniform.
DShK and PKM are mounted in the back of this Ural in “clay” camouflage. It is interesting that on one of the photos in the fighting position the glass in the driver's door in the raised position is fixed by a light bulletproof vest. The queue of AKM this vest will turn the head of the driver?
Modified beyond recognition, the Urals with broken windshields and already with armored.
Comments are superfluous. It is clear where the unit fought and who "modernized" it.
Ural with grids for psychological calmness and steel eyebrows forming the frame for laying sandbags.
Sample completely "collective farm" booking. Impressive barricades on the windshield opening.
A rare example of factory "engineering" of the Urals. The car belongs to the military intelligence of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Light version of the frontal projection booking Ural.
The sad finale of the attack on the gantrac of the APU.
In the next part, we will talk about turning UAZ, NATO equipment and completely exotic copies of the Ukrainian engineering genius of the ATO era into the “shushpantsers”.
GAZ-66
Seriously armored domestic all-terrain vehicle with installed wind and side armored windows. According to the accuracy of performance and color (pixel camouflage), we can assume that the car was booked in the factory. For example, at the Nikolaevsky diesel locomotive repair plant. It is not excluded the use of armor in the design.
Another GAZ-66 with a "pixel" color, for some reason, in the desert version. Reservation glazing is not available, but there is a blackout headlights. In the combat position of the glass shields are closed. Obviously, the car was built with funds raised by the compassionate residents of the city of Nezhin in the Chernihiv region.
"Shishiga", built on the money of those who care, from the district center Zhmerynka in Vinnytsia region. Everyone can make their own contribution to the construction of the next generation of Zhmerinka. Tuning was done in the factory, but the Ukrainian engineers once again left the doors and windows without protection.
Agree, a part of Ukrainian homemade products show an indescribable style. Soviet designers gave GAZ-66 such charisma, which is impossible to spoil.
GAZ-66 exclusively for frontal attacks. Excellent target for ATGW?
ZIL-130 / 131
It was rather difficult to book hood equipment, so they decided to ZIL-131 (assembled, by the way, in Moscow), to arm the DShK and ZSU immediately. It turned out brutal gantrak, painted in the shop in winter camouflage. However, at the fighting post the car acquired its usual summer color.
"Black cuttlefish" and its sad end. Loss of combat or machine "has developed its resource", story is silent.
"Ginger", so named, obviously, because of the abundance of rust. Car retrofitted in artisanal conditions. Interesting crate on the body to accommodate sandbags.
ZIL-131 under the pseudonym T-150. It is named after the experimental tank or not, we do not know, but the volume of improvements removed from the storage of ZIL is very scanty.
A lot of color unmasking, frankly spoiling the appearance of the car, makes one doubt the adequacy of the people who operate the car. Gantrak obviously has to work in a combat zone - for this he has a DShK and several body armor along the sides.
The ZIL-131 vehicle is clearly designed to break up demonstrations. Abundant lattice protection will only protect against stones. Dnipropetrovsk Nikopol front.
KAMAZ
And again KAMAZ. These cars, perhaps, became the most popular among artisanal armored trucks in the ATO zone. It affects the prevalence of the machine, and maintainability, and the availability of spare parts. By the beginning of the military operation in the south-east of Ukraine, it was KAMAZ trucks of various modifications that were the most "combat-ready" transport units. Many vehicles were requisitioned from the population and mobilized for numerous volunteer battalions. However, KAMAZ vehicles are in demand among militias.
KAMAZ of the Russian production of the Mustang family. The machine most likely belongs to the divisions of the LDNR.
A sample of equipment that exploits a high load carrying capacity of KAMAZ vehicles. Book forehead in some models decided sheets of springs.
KAMAZ dump truck for the Airborne Forces of the Ukrainian Army. Obviously, factory performance.
Another "shushpantser-KAMAZ", assembled from scraps and frank scrap metal.
Neat Novovolynsky (a town in the Volyn Oblast of Ukraine) based on KAMAZ assembled in Russian Naberezhnye Chelny. Cab reservations hidden strictly strictly factory, the glass is designed for at least AKM bullet. It may be a remake of the collection vehicle, but the body is deprived of loopholes and, obviously, a reservation.
Monstrous pepelats with folding steel panels in the frontal projection. It is noteworthy that the body ceiling is too high.
KAMAZ-4310 with well-booked side cab projections.
It is touching and cute ...
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All-wheel drive Ural-4320 from Miass also became a hero of the ATO in Ukraine. He rarely becomes the object of factory tuning, but handicraft craftsmen make true crocodiles out of the car.
One of the typical pictures of the march of the combat units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the initial period of the war - cars drag on a rigid coupling of failed comrades. The tractor is equipped with a minimum set of corner armor.
One of the reasons why the Urals are respected in the army was the relatively high resistance to a mine attack in the area of the front axle. The energy of the explosion goes into the engine compartment, leaving the chances of the driver and passengers. KAMAZ has no such bonus. The photo shows a gantrak with a heavily armored muzzle surrounded by APU fighters in NATO uniform.
DShK and PKM are mounted in the back of this Ural in “clay” camouflage. It is interesting that on one of the photos in the fighting position the glass in the driver's door in the raised position is fixed by a light bulletproof vest. The queue of AKM this vest will turn the head of the driver?
Modified beyond recognition, the Urals with broken windshields and already with armored.
Comments are superfluous. It is clear where the unit fought and who "modernized" it.
Ural with grids for psychological calmness and steel eyebrows forming the frame for laying sandbags.
Sample completely "collective farm" booking. Impressive barricades on the windshield opening.
A rare example of factory "engineering" of the Urals. The car belongs to the military intelligence of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Light version of the frontal projection booking Ural.
The sad finale of the attack on the gantrac of the APU.
In the next part, we will talk about turning UAZ, NATO equipment and completely exotic copies of the Ukrainian engineering genius of the ATO era into the “shushpantsers”.
- Evgeny Fedorov
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