hello to all viewers of military courier, this is a timely project and today we are talking about the supply of modern armored vehicles to the defense forces of ukraine. as you know, today there is a lot of talk about how much weaponry the western allies have transferred to ukraine, but unfortunately, not so much is said about what ukraine itself is capable of producing. modern armored vehicles, this is the ukrainian armored car novator, a car that is very well known to ukrainian defenders, it has proven itself well at the front, but recently the ukrainian armored vehicle company, which manufactures this armored car, gathered all the wishes of the ukrainian defender. and presented

a new, updated second version of this armored car. what is new in the second innovator, as well as what the manufacturer of this armored car, the ukrainian armored vehicle company, is facing, today we will talk with the head of this company, vladyslav belbas, and we will also make a test drive of this powerful armored car for you. recently at... an arms exhibition in poland, you presented the second version of your novator armored car, what is it different from the first version? well, we are not positioning it as a second version, we are positioning it as a modification of an existing innovator. vladyslav belbas, general director of the ukrainian armored vehicles company. the enterprise is one of the largest private manufacturers of military equipment and weapons in ukraine. ukrainian armored vehicles manufacture armored vehicles. varta and novator, mortars

of various calibers and self-propelled guns. the company also participates in the joint production of the legendary ukrainian self-propelled howitzer bohdan. since e innovator e-e was developed conceptually as a modular design and e-e for the use of different payloads according to the technical task that was at the time of its development. he started. development in 2017 and completed testing in 2018 and delivery began, ah, this is a modification of the innovator for er, for 10 people, er, for the driver and nine crew members. by the way, the name innovator, well, everything is clear, why is it worth it. an innovator, who came up with such a name and why? it's complicated. the question is, how did it

happen, what other options were there, we will cut it out, no, i can’t say how it was, because i’ve been with the company since the 20th year, and the innovator was started, developed and delivered, how it was, i won’t tell you, the innovator is probably a traditional one, well , first of all, an innovation, come on yes, if we look at the history of the development of the machine, then the innovator was put into production before mass production was launched in the usa. gltv cars, if you compare the design, it is a five-seater with a pickup body for the application of different payloads, this is me so simple comparative in words, perhaps this innovator. well, let's start a second innovator. i don't know if you've heard, but this armored car with over 400 horsepower starts. much

quieter than my ford focus. let's go. the first innovator was produced back in 2017. most of the machines were ordered by the national guard of ukraine at that time. six years have passed, and innovators have appeared in the armed forces, border guards, and the sbu. during this time, the manufacturer collected. reviews of ukrainian defenders, who have been carrying out combat tasks on the innovators for years, this is how the second version of this appeared armored car unlike the first five-seater model, the second innovator has 10 seats, one for the driver and nine for passengers. the military insisted that if the resources for the purchase of new transport are limited, its capacity should be increased. comfortable seats have five-point seat belts, like on rally cars. and independent mounting, it

absorbs the energy of the explosion, saving the soldier's spine, in case the car hits a mine. there is a powerful fire extinguishing system in the cabin and under the hood. which works in milliseconds, it's just a unique machine, you just don't you can feel the roads, although we are now driving on rough terrain, the special feature of this second innovator is that, compared to the first version, a... pneumatic cushion has been added here, which dampens all vibrations and helps the rear axle to stabilize the car. in addition to the air bag, which improved the novator's off-road handling, its second version also received an improved suspension, as the weight of the car increased, the rear axle was

reinforced with springs, and the braking system was improved. in general, the ford 550 chassis, on which the novator is built, is designed for 9 tons balance. but ukrainian armored vehicles were able to modify it so that it could withstand 15 tons of load. novator's ranflete tires, i.e. they are able to help the car travel another 50 km if damaged due to a special support insert. and this, according to the ukrainian military, saved their lives more than once. a powerful ford eight-cylinder engine with a volume of 6.7 liters, strengthened by a turbine and producing from 300 horsepower, due to which this heavy armored car flies along the track just like a swallow and overcomes off-road just like a beast. your direct foreign competitors, yes, which have already appeared at the front in ukraine, jltv, then

turkish cobra, saint, polsanivsky, israeli, it is not yet at the front, but nevertheless... less, this is what is in this market niche , what is the advantage of the innovator over them, well, except for the price, it is clear. sentkets, in the security service of ukraine, have been used since the 16th year, it seems, that's why we have such experience, and we, i told you that we work, we also worked with plasan in cooperation, cobra is not exactly a direct competitor, that's it. 4:4 car monoc, you type of monocoque, a really good car , by the way, i don’t know what ours buy them with, but they are, yes, er, about three dozen were delivered in the spring in ukraine, yes,

how is it different from competitors , well, if we go back, let's say, to the history of the creation of the innovator, then it was the first machine in ukraine created on the basis. the ford f550 chassis, at the moment, for the 23-22nd year, it is one of the most massive, the most massive chassis used for the production of armored cars in general in the world, the chassis has proven its reliability, technical characteristics, and therefore is actively used by manufacturers of armored vehicles. as for, this is one of the advantages, yes, that is, the reliability of the basic chassis, reliability... and high power, we claim a maximum speed of 140 km/h, which is a very high speed for an armored car, but in practice we drove it at 160 , that 's one time, secondly, the engine itself shows very significant

er power characteristics, and the power and torque allow it to pick up pretty quickly it is important that we are currently undergoing such a change in the concept of application, previously we included heavy armor, some armored systems, and armored vehicles, now there is lightening and speeding up, that is, the car must be protected, but very fast for movement, high-speed movement. an important point for all military personnel, in order for the armored car to work more efficiently after moving from the ground to the track, for this it must be transferred to the position of one driving bridge,

we turned off all 4x4, and now the car can simply fly like a swallow, accelerating quickly, instead of a mirror for... inspection, here is a monitor, the rear view camera transmits the image to it, very convenient. the car flies smoothly and calmly on the track , the car behaves very easily on the road, the speed is practically not felt, at 110 km/h an armored car of this weight turns very easily, just a unique car, some of the military experts say that it’s okay, if it’s worth it can be called a full-fledged emrap. i.e. a machine protected from ambushes and with anti-mine protection, the innovator is a little short of modern

imrap standards, or you do you agree with this statement? in its technical characteristics, it is not stated that it is a mrap, so it really is not a mrap, but ukrainians are everywhere in social networks, but in practice it even exceeded the requirements for a mrap, we have a case where an innovator under... was blown up in two at once explosive devices, on one explosive device and then on another explosive device, this is 8 kg in the equivalent of a tortilla, that is, it is there, it is the requirements of even the institutions3 for detonation, so in practice we have many actual confirmed detonations on various explosive devices, and our... servicemen were not injured, and the car has withstood such blasts,

that is, we do not declare such characteristics, but in fact they are confirmed by the practical use of cars, the only thing is that we have fatal cases of a car when it was hit by a tank shot, but from a tank shot, even tanks do not protect, but the innovator impresses not only with driving characteristics. and what is no less important - security. ukrainian developers say that the car received the best armor possible in this class. the body of the armored car has circular protection from shooting with a 5-45 caliber kalashnikov assault rifle and a 762 caliber sniper rifle . the manufacturer claims that the novator's armored capsule is capable of withstanding. detonation of explosives equivalent to 6 kg of tnt, but in reality the car

turned out to be even more stable, recently social networks circulated a photo of one of the navigators, who on the front line blew up on an anti-tank mine , and this is 8 kg of tnt, the car itself, unfortunately, was damaged, but saved life to the four ukrainian soldiers who were riding in it, here there is a ford engine on the innovator, and such a question is very practical. eh, how does he cope with our ukrainian military diesel fuel? in general, it’s great, we have no problems with the engines, er, there were no, er, in general , it seems that the engine was repaired only once out of the entire number of delivered cars, that is, it is not so capricious, and certain actions are carried out on it with with the aim of simplifying its mission norms, its reduction. picky about fuel, but in general it is really good

in terms of its technical characteristics and unpretentiousness of the engine. how do you support liaison with the military regarding improvements and improvements to the machine. well, first of all, unfortunately, our war has been going on since 2014, and all these cars. which were supplied by us earlier since 2015, they take part in hostilities all the time, and that is not why our vehicles did not take part in hostilities there from february 24, 2022, and before that we accepted such demands, requests, and recommendations that were constantly given to us , and they are constantly used by designers, as it happens in practice, we have... the machine is attached to some division, with this communication is carried out by our service department

, our service manager, and we understand what problems arise there, or in communication, what recommendations they give, and here it is necessary to understand that it goes more precisely, not recommendations from the point of view of improving the existing structure there, and it's more like that in our service, let's say, more like that after all. the reaction to some there, or breakdowns, or of an operational nature, yes, something to improve a lot, we did not receive the car, because... i will now compare this to you just so that you understand with the competitors, during the development of the car, for example, we used headlights of the nativ standard , which do not give a glare, this one, that is, there, for example, in our competitors, these were exactly the recommendations of the operator, yes, so that the headlights, there are many photos on the internet where the headlights are sealed with tape to not to give a glare,

unmasking, so that there is no unmasker, so that there is no, driving in a circle. with the lights off, against, no, no, glass, rear-view mirrors that do not break, or do not crack when shot, that is, there will be a hole in it or it will be there, but there is no mesh like that, well we can check, if you want, that is, the technical characteristics that are characteristic of a real military vehicle were initiated by us. immediately during the development of the car and its confirmation during the decisive departmental tests and state tests, therefore , we did not have any significant studies of this kind in the recommendations of the exploiters, the only thing that is a good example for the validation, it was a recommendation

of the command of the ground forces, to develop a car for... transportation of atgm calculations, that is, by a simple way we have achieved the refinement of the car, we were able to develop a car for transporting atgms, which within two hours can be converted in the reverse direction into an ordinary innovator, that is, if you do not need to transport atgms, everything is removed and put away and you have an ordinary car again, that was it. for example, at the initiative of the armed forces of ukraine , such a version was made. the full-scale invasion and this great war, the last year and a half, it has completely changed the nature of hostilities, the tactics have changed, through the use of drones, through the work of units in small groups,

as far as this is already an influence. and affects the structural changes in your armored vehicles, well, i guess you have to go back three or four years, the experience of the first azerbaijani-armenian war, let's say, not now the second first, showed that... systems are very vulnerable to the influence strike drones, some small drones, which, rather than air defense systems , are just ineffective in their detection and destruction, and reservation, passive, passive defense of complexes is the only active or effective

protection measure. equipment of expensive equipment, yes, that is, there we saw many examples of the damage of tornadoes, hurricanes, such rszzo, command posts, launchers, radar command posts, these are all ordinary-type kungs, yes, there were, then just booking such cars, and this experience we used in the development, for example , of the vilkha complex, er, when both control units and cabins were armored, and against a drone there up to three-4 kg, in tortilla equivalent, they basically protect, yes, and expensive equipment does not suffer, that same the same applies to the innovator, why are we talking now about e-speed characteristics and

protection, and here is such a car. er, with an ordinary fpv drone there, you can damage it, but you have to have it, and with its speed, with its protection, if, it is just that, an element of protection for military personnel that can save life, and the compact reb systems that can be installed, you're thinking about equipping your machines so that they can go out of order, because it's other troops, it's electronic intelligence, it 's testing these systems and recommends their use, let's say, or

it's something like, for example, communication, yes, we make a car and they tell us, you have to make a connector or outlet or attachment for this or that or another communication system here and there, that is, we do not determine it, it is determined there by other e . troops than those who order cars, so there is a difficulty in this, but indeed, our company, we work on providing recommendations to our customers, operators, regarding the possibility of supplying various systems, we are currently working, for example, on supply and tests of several radio-electronic warfare systems against dome-type drones, and plus we know that there are ukrainian systems that are supplied en masse. forces imposed on the car by customers. is ukroboronprom your competitor? this is our partner in war. why did many of

ukroboronprom's projects and programs never take off? we, for example, spoke in one of the last interviews with the chief consultant of the commander-in-chief of the armed forces, major general nazarov. precisely about the fact that some, well, many types of weapons, especially munitions, the production of ukroboronprom was failed, why yes, this is a problem of the state, in my opinion, in which it is impossible to adjust the production process by changing managers for... every year, every six months, well, for more than two years, it seems that no director was in oboronprom, or at the enterprises of oboronprom, and every time there is a change of government

, open tenders are appointed there, i don’t really want to talk about it in the war in the plan, i worked there long enough and i know this whole kitchen very well, so the problem is the first is in the personnel, the second - no person , understanding that it is temporary, will invest as much as possible in the result of some company's achievements, since they, let's say, will not be reflected in it, after a certain time she will go to do something else, and it is good if without any accusations, in such a case it is very difficult, that's why most enterprises are state-owned and why... let's say this , i'm against uh, state ownership in general, because it's uh, they're not critical now, let's go, the state should

control critical inf- critical some objects, yes, which make up there, er, a weighty component for state security, in 2000, according to open sources and those publications of the same mine. in 2015, about 70-80% of state defense orders were executed by koroboronprom or state enterprises, in 2022, on the contrary, 80% are executed by private enterprises, and 20% by state enterprises, that is, state enterprises no longer have the weight or the criticality that, which , which had earlier, therefore... it is not necessary for them to be state-owned, this process can be started, the second is such enterprises focused on the process, not the result. every

time when the management changes, some unattainable goals are declared, tomorrow there will be a million dollar increase and so on and so on, but in fact the long-term result is shown only by enterprises in which managers... work at least, well, you understand, you come to a new job, you only there for two or three years you understand what the enterprise does, you become a specialist, yes, and if you are replaced after a year, then you will not become a specialist at enterprises, so in my opinion there are companies that, from the experience of the people i know, companies where managers have been working for more than three years, they just have some kind of long-term result. achievements and understand what they are doing, the rest is aimed at some process of demonstrating their activities, the production

of varta at one time began in... belarusian time, what is the situation with this now, given that belarus is actually an ally of the aggressor state of russia, unfortunately, or fortunately, we have discontinued the production of warta cars to the base of maz, unfortunately, why, because the car was really good from the point of view of the technical solution, the car was eh... competitive from the price point of view, the car was very reliable, simple, and that was the concept of its creation, that is, to apply a sufficiently widespread maz chassis, for which there were and will be spare parts, which is enough to simply maintain at any service center, to develop an armored car based on this machine and... thus to be

able to supply this machine en masse to the armed forces at a relatively low cost, such a decision was very, let's say, effective, uh, let's remember the 14th, 15th year like this, it's not the 22nd, when we were given help, in the 14th year ukraine, the 15th year to the 22 ukraine fought russia with its own resources. and the defense budget is tens or hundreds of times smaller than what is allocated now, so at that time it was such a right decision, since the full-scale invasion, we have not had any relations with maz, but unfortunately there is no guard production either, at the moment the company is conducting research and development work with development of an alternative to an analogue or a new

model. upon opening, we are making several new models in this regard at once, which chassis did you choose for the guards? we will reveal when we present, we will wait for this news, so now we will move from the track to the dirt, and for this we need to switch to the four-wheel drive mode, put the lever in the neutral position, switch to four- wheel drive. and let's go, of course, don't forget that due to the neutral position of the speed switch, you need to switch from one axle to two drivers and let's go across the field

well, it drives like an ordinary suv, only much more powerful and can do much more compared to ordinary jeeps, this armored car. now we go to the field. we turn around the field, we don't feel the pits at all, well, i would be lying if i said that the car now drives as it does on the track.

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