OREANDA-NEWS. July 14, 2008. On these days KAMAZ demonstrates its most perfect military vehicles at VI International Russian Exhibition of Armament (Russian Expo Arms-2008) which takes place in Nizhny Tagil.

5 KAMAZ vehicles ranked with 200 Russian models of armament and defense technology, including battle planes Su-24 and Su-27, helicopters Mi-24 and Mi-35, up-to-date models of armored equipment and anti-aircraft rocket complexes, and hundreds of exhibits of other countries on the ground “Staratel”. Like at the previous exhibitions in the Urals, the show of defense technology on the stand is accompanied with its testing and demonstration of technical and tactical abilities.

A side prime mover KAMAZ-6560 (8x8) of 20 tonnes payload equipped with an engine KAMAZ-740.35-400 of 400 h.p. stands out against the background of the exhibited models of KAMAZ – the regular participant of this largest military exhibition in Russia. It can get over a tank ditch up to 2 meters wide and a ford up to 1.8 meters deep. An anti-aircraft/anti-missile complex “Pantsyr-S1” is mounted on the chassis of this vehicle.

An eight-wheel representative of the “Mustang” family – a vehicle KAMAZ-6350 (8x8) is generally recognized. The exhibited model has a cab with hidden armoring of the 5th defense class. Experience of fighting actions and counter terrorist operations in hot spots showed a pressing need for vehicles with protection of a crew, transported cargo and a vehicle itself from small arms, splinters and mines.

One of the most promising trucks of the company is KAMAZ-43502 (4x4). This is the easiest and most maneuverable representative of the family of army vehicles “Mustang”. It can clime a 60% slope, make up to 100 km/h and also force a crossing over water obstacles with a fordable depth up to 1.75 m.

A four-wheel drive vehicle KAMAZ-4326 (4x4) is also indispensable for extreme conditions. It is designed for transportation of special purpose and urgent delivery of cargo to hard-to-reach areas on earth roads and broken country. It is operated in the climatic zones with the air temperature from –30° to +50 °С.

A side vehicle KAMAZ-5350 (6x6) demonstrated in Nizhny Tagil – the basic one for six-wheelers in the “Mustang” family – is meant for personnel carriage, transportation of different cargoes and trailing systems on all kinds of roads and countries. The chassis of this vehicle is one of the most widely used ones for mounting of different armament and defense equipment.

The visitors of the exhibition could also see a diesel-generator set AD 100S-T400-1RPM 14HL in a bonnet version – one of the most perfect models of this kind of power equipment. A specially developed fixed engine ensures low fuel consummation and low noise. In addition, it is smaller than its Russian analogues by weight and dimensions. A control system on the up-to-date electronic base makes the installation easy to operate.

KAMAZ continues developments in the sphere of improvement of military and multipurpose vehicles and helps the automobile fleet of the RF Armed Forces to get the up-to-date equipment and an opportunity to lose the widest range of urgent and special tasks.