Land · Transport
URAL DEFENDER
Specification
- Category
- Land transport
- Seats
- 3
- Top speed
- 79
- Fuel
- 85
- Progression
- Driver Lvl 18
- Platform
- Ural
Speed and fuel use the units recorded in the game data; conversions are not verified.
Purchase budget
of the $10,000 starting balance.
$4,000 left after the purchase.
Excludes any one-off unlock fee and the rest of your loadout.
Vehicle notes
Season 1 changelog, 9 September 2026 (official): Ural Covered, level 30 to 18.
These specifications come from the shared Ural platform record, rather than a separate measurement for this variant.
How you get one
The URAL DEFENDER has a purchase price of $6,000; it is 60% of the $10,000 every account gets once — and that money does not come back. Cash carries between matches in WARDOGS and what you lose stays lost, so the question is not whether you can afford it now but whether you can afford to lose it twice.
On top of the price, the URAL DEFENDER carries a one-off unlock of $75,000 — paid once to add it to what you can buy, which is 750% of the entire starting balance. That figure is from the imported progression snapshot rather than the tile, so it is reported, not confirmed.
The URAL DEFENDER is not for sale at any price until you reach Driver Lvl 18. That gate reads against your Driver level, which is a vendor track rather than your account level. WARDOGS has no fixed classes: progression runs on tracks earned by using the relevant gear, so Driver level is time behind a wheel — and it is not the Pilot level the helicopters need, nor the Wardog level the heavy armour needs.
Recorded from the Closed Alpha vehicle vendor. The tab this vehicle is filed under is our reading — the capture was taken with the ALL filter selected, so no tile was seen under its own tab.
Other land transport in the vendor
The rest of the tab the URAL DEFENDER is sold under — buyable first, then cash unlocks, then whatever you have to earn.
Guides that cover the URAL DEFENDER
How to level up in WARDOGS: every role, fastest route
How XP works in WARDOGS and the fastest way to level Medic, Support, Recon, Assault, Driver and Pilot, with every early unlock level and cost.
WARDOGS vehicle weak spots: killing a Humvee
Where to hit a Humvee, a truck and an L2A6 tank in WARDOGS, what every anti-vehicle option costs to unlock and buy, and why the turret cannot keep up with you.
Where this vehicle sits in the game
All 20 vehicles
The full Closed Alpha vendor roster, land and air, by tab.
The weapons that answer a vehicle
Anti-vehicle is not a niche pick when the other team can buy armour.
What a round actually pays
One complete payout, line by line, and the loadout refund on death.
Kolchia and the Control Zone
256 km² is why transport is a purchase and not a convenience.



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