OREANDA-NEWS. September 21, 2009. Besides the air defence/missile gun system Pantsyr-S1 on the basis of several models of KAMAZ chassis, a KAMAZ-43269 armored vehicle also aroused interest at the International Aerospace Salon.

The equipment the basis of which is a turret with machine gun BPPU MB2 is produced and mounted on a KAMAZ armored vehicle in OAO Muromteplovoz. Such kind of equipment with BPPU MB2 was demonstrated at the exhibition for the first time. Armored according to the fifth defence class (GOST R 50963-81), the vehicle is designed to solve tasks of reconnoitering and protection of military columns and objects struggling with human forces and equipment with light armor, as well as with enemy air targets flying low. The vehicle can accommodate a landing troop of 7 people, including a driver. A diesel engine KAMAZ-740.31-240 ensures high dynamic characteristics and an ability to move at the rate of up to 100 km/h.

Modifications of KAMAZ-43269 designed on the basis of the well-known all-wheel drive chassis KAMAZ-4350 (Mustang line) are produced in ZAO Remdiesel – the subsidiary of KAMAZ Inc. The armored vehicle bodies are delivered by Kurgan Machine Building Plant. The vehicles are used in sub-units of security, defence and law enforcement agencies, as well as in organizations engaged in specific freight traffic. Not long ago, for example, Federal Service for Execution of Punishment purchased a batch of such armored vehicles.