What will be the new armored Kamaz in the future

Perhaps KAMAZ future will look like exactly, because the conceptual design won first place in the contest "KAMAZ Master 3D». See photos and videos.





Recently, "KAMAZ" is not afraid to experiment on himself, so he has a whole bunch of new developments. Here, you and tractors, and trucks and even buses. But, of course, the most interesting thing happening in the field of military developments. After all, "Kamaz" is not the first performs the state defense order.

Here it is no longer a prototype and not a concept, but a very specific model, developed by "KAMAZ": armored wheeled vehicles for the border troops of BPM 97 (KAMAZ-43269).



"KAMAZ" in Soviet times stood in defense of our country, in particular all-terrain trucks 4310 Series. From a technical point of view in the 80 years it was the most perfect truck, capable of overcoming high hurdles, steep climbs and descents, actually "swim" to a depth of the river and a half meters. The mass production model came in January 1981, just before the 26th Congress of the CPSU.



KAMAZ-63968 "Typhoon". Can withstand direct hits armor-piercing ammunition and able to overcome obstacles, even with a broken wheel. Place the arrow equipped with a screen and a joystick with which he controls the heavy machine gun mounted on the roof of an armored car.



Few people know that the 90 "Kamaz" survived with difficulty. Orders did not have huge idle capacity idle, forming enterprise mired in debt, which by the early 2000s, reached $ 1 billion. In 1993, the automaker has experienced a terrible fire. The fire destroyed the main production building and expensive equipment. Engine plant was completely destroyed. The fate of 170 thousand employees of the plant (which is almost a third of the population of Naberezhnye Chelny) was threatened.

Artillery truck "KAMAZ" -6350 with an armored cab and a habitable module for the calculation.



In the second half of the two thousandth KamAZ lean on the state corporation "Russian Technologies", created for healing and innovative development of domestic enterprises. Its assets are transferred to 49, 9% stake in the auto giant. In December 2008, the plant drew attention to the fifth largest automaker in the world "Daimler" producing cars Mercedes-Benz. He bought 10% of KamAZ for $ 250 million. As a result, in the 2009th signed agreements on the establishment of two joint ventures - for the production of light trucks and heavy Fuso Canter Mercedes-Benz Actros and Axor. At the beginning of 2012, "Daimler" has expressed a desire to buy a controlling stake in Kamaz.

"KAMAZ" -5350 with an armored cab and a functional module



Who defense contracts from "KamAZ" accounted for 10% of total production, and now owns the corporation Rostec. At last Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov, we buy Italian armored vehicles, but in 2013 all the responsibilities for the delivery and assembly of such equipment is also assigned to the plant from Chelny.

The armored car "Tiger". Developed at the Gorky Automobile Plant, but going to the "KAMAZ".



Recently, the new Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and head of the "Rostec" Sergei Chemezov, visited the plant to check the quality of the defense order and to evaluate the possibility of further cooperation. I can not say that I was very worried about the "Kamaz", but it would be much nicer to think that in our army are domestic cars, not Italian "Lynx". Moreover, this cooperation has existed for many years.

Shoigu's visit was not accidental. Defense Ministry plans starting this year with the conclusion of contracts with producers of military hardware to move to a system of full life-cycle - when the plant, in addition to building products, will have to do more, and medium and capital repairs, and after use - dispose of the machine. For this "KAMAZ" have to build special centers. However, to build a "KamAZ" is nothing new: Now KamAZ group includes more than 150 organizations in Russia, CIS and far abroad. It comprises 12 large automobile plants. A striking example of how competitive domestic auto industry could be with proper management.

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