The official broadcaster of Ukraine's Ministry of Defense, Army TV, has published a video about Inguar-3, an armored vehicle from local company Inguar Defence which had announced in late 2024 first contracts for the supply of this newly developed vehicle to Ukrainian defense and security units.
In an interview with the journalist, Artem Yushchuk, co-founder of the company and co-author of the Inguar vehicle, talked about the improvements already waiting after the field tests and which solutions turned out to be surprisingly successful.
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"This vehicle was tested back in the summer [2024] with the 12th Azov Brigade of the National Guard in the Serebryanskyi forest. The vehicle spent almost a month there, performing evacuation functions. And basically, this aid the groundwork for our first contract.
"At the end of 2024, the vehicle underwent combat tests in the Sumy [operational] direction together with border guards, it was literally an area some 400 m from the border with russia," Yushchuk says.
Both tests were interesting, he added. For example, during combat operations in the Serebryanskyi forest, the vehicle was damaged by a bomber drone attack but was able to evacuate a wounded soldier running on flat tires.
While in the Sumy region, the vehicle was tested in difficult swampy terrain: "The vehicle's cross-country capabilities play a very important role, namely the tire inflation system; locking of the front, rear, and center differentials; its ground clearance," Artem Yushchuk stressed.
After the tests, the vehicle was tuned in accordance with the feedback received from the military personnel testing it. First of all, Inguar received a standard electronic warfare system: the vehicles will now be supplied with a built-in jammer controlled from inside the vehicle.
Troops also noted they needed anti-drone protection, or at least the mount for it.
"We are currently working on it so it will be a solution that can equip the vehicle with protective [slat armor] grills from the factory, which will help it become more protected," Yushchuk noted.
One interesting design solution from the manufacturer was to place cameras instead of rear-view mirrors, the image is displayed on the driver's monitor. It turned out to be "100% on point" without causing any discomfort, be it day- or nighttime operations. The vehicle passed acceptance tests and was codified with this solution. Moreover, the developers plan to use cameras on the entire product line, including upcoming models.
Yushchuk said that a stabilized remotely controlled weapon station is currently being developed for Inguar, it will be armed with either a 12.7mm Browning M2 machine gun or a grenade launcher, with a PKT gun as the secondary weapon.
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