Ursa Ruska Shagohod

Ursa Ruska Shagohod was the common code-name designation for the Ursa Ruska U-38, a Lorica derivative fighting vehicle produced by the Eurasian Soviet exclusively for military applications. The AATO codename for the vehicle, "Limper", referred to the russian translated name, Walker, in a derogatory fashion. Inspired for an abandoned cold war design project with the Shagohod designation, U-38 was a production-model Ursa Ruska fighting vehicle designed for deploying cruise missiles while maintaining the mobility advantages of the Lorica pattern over traditional armoured fighting vehicles. U-38 was nominally a production model of the Eurasian Soviet, but its usage was highly restricted owing to the expense of their production and the preferential construction of "simpler" UR models; like all UR models, the Shagohod had a similar principle of operation to the Lorica Standard, but lacked the modularity, and all were custom-built to their own unique design requirements.

As a result most Shagohod units were deployed during Project Great Way and subsequently lost, leaving relatively few for other conflicts. Most famously, such a model was one of the participants of the so-called Duel over Paris.

Model Description

Ursa Ruska Shagohod was an exceptionally simple design for the standards of the time, at least from an external examination. The unit maneuvered upon a broad, pylon-like ground effect base, and both the base and the pilot body unit formed part of the stabilization system for the long launcher system that formed its main armament. Shagohod also had an autocannon mounted on each arm as a final holdout weapon, but the intention was always that the unit should have other Ursa Ruska models in close proximity for support.

The launcher pack was capable of holding four cruise missiles, specifically the Kh-80SM, which had an operational range of 3000km and could be equipped with either a 1,000kg conventional warhead or a nuclear explosive warhead with a yield of roughly 200 kt.