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Our armored vehicles are known around the world. They fought in many hot spots, and are armed with a number of countries. And make them all the same plant in the Nizhny Novgorod region.

36 photos of the plant and APCs via exile





We begin our tour with a school class. I think in such a class as a child wanted to learn every boy. Still - because there is a real armored personnel carriers, and even in the cut.



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It BTR-80 - perhaps the most famous car of the entire range of the plant. Find in-HETE information about what kind of car is and what it is famous for, there is no trouble. And I'd rather show you what she knows. To do this, leave the walls of the school's office and sent to the factory landfill. There's already waiting for us.



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For APC's hard to find a decent obstacle. This 14-ton whopper even know how to swim.



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It floats by screws at the back and in the normal state closed valve:



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Of course, in a pool is not particularly naplavatsya. For skills training and checking buoyancy at the plant have a special pool, which occupies an entire hall. Its depth in some areas is 6 meters.



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Manufacturing plant:



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But various modifications of the BTR-80



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BTR-90, which was supposed to replace him, but he did not grow together, one and a half times larger than its predecessor:



Instead, the propeller behind him are two powerful turbines, allowing not just cross the obstacles, but also to develop at the same rate of decent.



In addition to the armored vehicles at the plant are actively exploring the production of armored jeeps - "Tiger" and "The Bear". "Tiger»:



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