UkrArmoTech company is working on two more of its own armored vehicles: GYURZA-03 and DESNA. And they have already reached the stage of undergoing codification testing, which opens the path to supplying the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
And these are interesting equipment samples that are essentially pickups with modular construction for various tasks. They use the company's previous developments and respond to existing military needs.
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Thus, for GYURZA-03, such a solution was chosen to reduce risk when transporting ammunition and equipment alongside personnel. As a result, a separate cabin-capsule for 5 people was created, and separately from it, a special cargo compartment.
The pickup scheme also provides space for installing additional equipment, such as radars, air defense systems, and even artillery systems. The latter most likely includes mortars, or very light 105mm howitzers, like Hawkeye, because the maximum weight of such payload on the vehicle is 3 tons.
DESNA is also a very interesting sample, as it's offered for the niche of multipurpose high cross-country vehicle weighing up to 8 tons. This is something like IVECO LMV, which is also used by Ukrainian military.
At UkrArmoTech they note that the vehicle uses reliable and repairable solutions that are also installed on other company models, including automatic transmission and engine. Here it can be assumed that they are not analogous to UAT.TISA, because it still has a manual transmission.
Developers assure that the new armored vehicles have the necessary level of protection, ergonomics, cross-country capability, and functionality. Characteristics are not yet provided, because most likely testing is still ongoing and details will be announced upon their completion.
If we make assumptions, then at minimum GYURZA-03, by analogy with GYURZA-02, will have a specially developed chassis for it, or will use the same one. Regarding DESNA, it's difficult to say anything yet, as its possible to use a practical variant based on already proven global automotive platforms.
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