OREANDA-NEWS. In 2013, the military units of the Strategic Missile Troops of the Russian Federation (RVSN) will receive a large number of new KAMAZ vehicles.

The recent growth of supplies of vehicles to the RVSN ensures renovation of its whole vehicle fleet. Last year, the RVSN received over 130 KAMAZ and UAZ vehicles. Thus, the plan of vehicle supply was 100% realized. New vehicles are delivered mainly to re-equipped missile divisions. This news was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

It is planned to supply more than 100 vehicles to the formations and military units of the RVSN in 2013 to ensure their operational readiness. The main part of them – 50 units – is KAMAZ-53501 vehicles featuring three driving axles and, naturally, high cross-country ability. The rest vehicles are UAZ-3962, fire-fighting vehicles, passenger buses, trucks, recovery tractors, mobile auto repair shops.

Besides, it is planned to modernize more than 20 units of KAMAZ-4310 vehicles of the RVSN. It is planned to increase an engine`s power output, upgrade a transmission system, which will enhance a vehicle’s cross-country ability and reliability under the most difficult conditions of military operation. Within the limits of engineering supervision, the military vehicles will be serviced and repaired with the assistance of specialists of industrial enterprises.

Military vehicles are the main transport means ensuring mobility and maneuverability of troops, and also of armaments mounted on wheeled chassis – and it is more than 95 percent of ground-based mobile weapons and military equipment of the RVSN.