The online military site Defense Express reported on statements made by Russian Defense Minister Andrey Belousov on a stopover at an educational center in the Leningrad military district last week that plans were underway to install buggies and all-terrain vehicles (ATV). Tactical driving courses in army educational centers.
Despite evidence that attacks on Ukrainian defensive positions with motorcycles, ATVs and buggies are being decimated, Moscow still sees their use as a positive development.
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Announcing the new formation, Belousov cited the words that the use of such cars primarily requires troops on the battlefield, where they proved to be “successful and effective” in carrying out attacks, troop rotations, delivery of goods and medical evacuations, etc. . .
Russian forces are reportedly deploying cellular equipment on all-terrain vehicles and buggies to assist drone operators with first-person video (FPV) as they can move less visibly around the battlefield.
Defense Express told several pro-Kremlin army bloggers that the advent of driving courses meant that the Russian armed forces were transitioning to buggies and motorcycles.
Belousov’s announcement comes on the same day that paratroopers from Ukraine’s 79th Brigade released a video showing how they repelled a large-scale Russian attack using dozens of armored cars subsidized by all-terrain vehicles and motorcycles. near Kurakhove, in the Donetsk region, causing heavy casualties to the attackers. . .
It was the second time that a large attack supported by motorcycles was repulsed by the same unit. On July 24, a multidirectional attack with tanks and other armored vehicles was destroyed by artillery, bomber planes, and landmines.
Historically, Russia used light mobile vehicles and motorcycles before abandoning their use around 2011, as it did have a clear concept or doctrine for their use in operations.
The Russian online military issues website TopWar reported in early July that new materials for the Erofey soft all-terrain tactical vehicle, designed primarily for use by Moscow’s special forces, had been acquired through Russian Army Reserve sets. Russian Combat (BARS). deployed in the Zaporizhzhia region. According to Mikhail Degtyarev, governor of the Khabarovsk region, the cars are “undergoing combat tests” lately.
Degtyarev said that the troops discovered the cars in terms of repairability, speed and maneuverability and that while all the won Erofey cars had been deployed on the front line, orders had already been placed for others.
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