Infantry Mobility Vehicles

The Russian Defense Ministry in 2021 will receive more than 50 medical armored vehicles "Lens", said Deputy Defense Minister Alexei Krivoruchko during his working trip to the company "Remdiesel" head of the military mission Vladimir Kuimov. "A contract has been signed for the supply of 56 medical armored vehicles" Lens "of the Typhoon family to the troops this year," Kuimov said.

During the visit to the plant, the Deputy Minister of Defense discussed with the company's management the progress of the state defense order and the execution of state contracts, as well as the work carried out at the enterprise in the areas of import substitution of foreign components and the production of armored vehicles of a new model range.

The medical armored vehicle "Lens" is designed to search, collect and remove the wounded from the battlefield and from the centers of mass sanitary losses. As a base vehicle, an armored vehicle with a 4x4 wheel formula of the Typhoon family is used. The curb weight of the vehicle is more than 15 tons, its reservation provides protection for the crew and the transported wounded from armor-piercing bullets from a 7.62 by 54 rifle cartridge, as well as shrapnel.

Also this year, the Russian troops will receive the first batch of 11 new armored escort vehicles "Partner". According to the chief designer of "Remdiesel" Igor Zarakhovich, the car "Partner" is created on the basis of the armored car K-4386 "Typhoon-Airborne". The " Partner "is a more modern and more secure vehicle in terms of convoy escort," he said.

At the same time, as representatives of the company told the deputy minister, today Russian armored vehicles are 70 percent produced from Russian components. According to Vladimir Kuimov, the company is in the process of import substitution in accordance with the previously signed import substitution program of the Ministry of Defense. From 2021, they will begin to receive domestic wheels with a combat-resistant insert, the chief designer of Remdiesel, Igor Zarakhovich, also reported. "New wheels" Kama-NU-401 " are designed for all our cars, they are produced in Nizhnekamsk. Now they are in the process of state tests. After the completion of the state tests, we will begin to complete our cars with these wheels, " Zarakhovich said.

"I really hope that from next year only Russian wheels will be used in our cars. Maybe this year some cars will be used with Russian wheels,"he said. The chief designer said that the new Russian wheels have " a combat-resistant rubber insert that allows you to continue driving when they break through." "This is a full-fledged analogue of the tires that we buy abroad," he added.

As for the upgraded multi-purpose light armored tractor (MT-LB) with a new engine and air conditioning, its state tests will begin in 2021, said Alexey Krivoruchko, chief designer of JSC Remdiesel. "We are carrying out the development work "Reconstruction", which will allow the old MT-LB, accepted for major repairs, to upgrade to a new level - to replace the engine, put the air conditioner, change the electrics, put an additional heater, " he explained.

According to him, now there is one experimental car created within the framework of the "Reconstruction" program. "The prototype MT-LB is undergoing preliminary tests, I very much hope that we will complete them this year, and next year we will go to state tests," the chief designer said. Zarakhovich added that the production of MT-LB from scratch, which was developed in the 60s of the last century, is now impossible. "Not all MT-LB components can now be mastered in production. But given the number of these vehicles in the troops, the overhaul will extend their operation for at least another 10 years, " he said.

During the trip, the deputy head of the military Department of the Russian Federation also reported that Remdiesel has prepared for state tests a new armored mining vehicle "Tick" on the basis of the armored car "Typhoon-airborne", and serial deliveries to the Airborne Troops of the armored vehicles "Typhoon-airborne" will begin in July this year.

"Typhoon-airborne" has completed the state tests, receives the letter "O1". Next month, serial deliveries of these machines will begin, "said Igor Zarakhovich, chief designer of Remdiesel.

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Remdiesel produces equipment for use in the Armed Forces, mainly armored vehicles of the Typhoon line of different classes and different wheel formulas. The volume of state defense orders at the enterprise is 93%. On average, the plant produces about 300 armored vehicles a year, and in 2020 Remdiesel produced 250 vehicles for the needs of the Ministry of Defense.

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A 30-mm remote-controlled combat module created based on the Spitsa (Spoke) experimental design work. The armament consists of a 30-mm 2A42 cannon and a 7.62-mm 6P7K machine gun, as well as a 30-mm AG-30 automatic grenade launcher.

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Can someone ID the vehicle in the middle?