Ukraine starts mass production of Dozor 4x4 armored personnel carriers for National Guard

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Thursday , June 5, 2014 09:08 AM
 
Ukraine starts mass production of Dozor 4x4 armored personnel carriers for National Guard.
Ukraine will start mass production of Dozor armored personnel carriers for the National Guard, Verkhovna Rada-appointed acting President of Ukraine Oleksandr Turchynov said on Wednesday, June 5, 2014.
     
Ukraine will start mass production of Dozor armored personnel carriers for the National Guard, Verkhovna Rada-appointed acting President of Ukraine Oleksandr Turchynov said on Wednesday, June 5, 2014.
Ukrainian-made Dozor 4x4 armoured vehicle
     
Turchynov reviewed on Wednesday heavy armored and special vehicles at the Chuguyev firing range in the eastern Kharkiv region, which will be used by the Ukrainian army, including during Kiev’s punitive operation in the country’s east, the acting president’s press office reported.

The armor was also inspected by Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov and commanders of the battalions involved in Kiev’s so-called “anti-terrorist operation” in the country’s east.

“The small armored personnel carrier Dozor is three times cheaper than the BTR-4E APC and has proved its efficiency in field conditions. Today this vehicle is awaited in the National Guard,” the press office quoted Turchynov as saying.

Military experts say it will take several months to put the Dozor APC into serial production. Poland earlier purchased a license from Ukraine to make these combat vehicles operational in the Polish army.
Turchynov, Avakov and battalion commanders are expected to visit the headquarters of Kiev’s military operation near the town of Sloviansk in the eastern Donetsk region on Wednesday.