The servicemen told about the production of buggies from confiscated cars in their area.

Military personnel of the 99th repair battalion of the 51st Combined Arms Army of the Southern Military District are carrying out work on the production of buggies from confiscated and sent to the parking lot. This was reported by Izvestia on August 21.

"The half of the roof is cut off, the rear seat and interior are removed, reinforced from the racks, and an additional beam is made on top so that it is possible to hold on," said senior foreman Vadim Zhilenkov.

It is noted that the term "buggy" in the special military operation zone refers to all converted cars, regardless of the original make and model of transport. For further modernization, the brigade's employees are supplied with cars that were confiscated from drunk drivers and sent to a parking lot in the Rostov and Voronezh regions.

"There's no need for doors here — I jumped in here quickly, I jumped out quickly. [In the back], you can put a stretcher, a wounded man, and quickly evacuate him. Even if one wounded man is taken out on it, I will already feel a sense of accomplishment," said Oleg Ukhanev, platoon commander of the 99th Brigade.

Removing unnecessary parts and body parts also helps the buggy to develop additional speed by lightening the design, said correspondent Valentin Trushnin.

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On August 11, inventor Eduard Mymrin and actor Ivan Okhlobystin presented an evacuation buggy to military medic Arslan with the call sign Cap, who saved almost 1,000 soldiers from the battlefield. The new car will travel on any off-road terrain and in 10-20 seconds the wounded can be loaded into the car.

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