"Shushpantsery" of Ukraine. Part of 4. KrAZ vehicles
The fate of KrAZ, as a manufacturer of heavy military trucks in Ukraine, is unenviable - since the beginning of 2018, the APU has ordered all 100 vehicles. In satisfying years, ATN purchased 800 trucks annually for the needs of the ATO. Now the niche is occupied by foreign cars, including the neighboring MAZ, which is notable for much more modern products and production flexibility. According to Roman Chernyak, General Director of the Kremenchug Automobile Plant, the automaker is now as close to bankruptcy as ever - Oschadbank alone calls for 1 billion hryvnias in court! The death of KrAZ will be the last nail in the coffin cover of the Ukrainian auto industry of a full cycle. Prior to this, LAZ, LUAZ, ZAZ, and KMZ motorcycle factories with LMZ were buried quietly and without honors. The swan song can be an armored KrAZ ‑ 6322, designed for the widely publicized Bogdan howitzer, which has either an 152-mm gun or a bore under the “NATO” caliber 155-mm. The engine, by the way, may well be the Yaroslavl YMZ turbodiesel, with power from 380 to HP 420.
KrAZ ‑ 6322 armored chassis with a double cabin and its interior decoration. The base for the next Ukrainian "wunderwatch" SAU "Bogdana".
With the beginning of the civil war, the leadership of PJSC "KrAZ" did everything possible to saturate the Ukrainian Armed Forces with its own technology. And, of course, it was a good money - “to whom the war, and to whom is the mother native”. Various armored cars of the Hulk, Fiona, Cougar type went into the series, but this is a topic for a separate story. The KrAZ vehicles, converted by NPO Praktika into armored vehicles “Fortress on wheels” and “Raptor”, of their own manufacture, became massive. That's what happened to them in the ATO zone.
Hopelessly stuck and destroyed KrAZ-6322 factory reservation from NPO Praktika. Not only he got caught.
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The burnt KrAZ Raptor National Guard under Shyrokino in 2015. The military complain of a weak standard fire extinguishing system.
And these are already trophy copies of “Fortresses on Wheels” and Raptor, which have been commissioned by LDNR armies.
KrAZ-6322 Raptor at the presentation in 2014 year. Machines went to the NSU.
The Kremenchug "predator" in the curb state immediately weighs a ton of 21, takes on the 24 infantryman and has BR6 level armor that protects the vehicle at a distance of 30 m from the "NATO" 7,62х51 mm with a steel core. In general, the Ukrainians provided only all-wheel drive chassis - the removable armored vehicle was booked by the Streit Group. At that time, KrAZ did not know how to book cars, and even now it does not know how - all the armored cars were created in collaboration with foreigners. Money in the civil war of the south-east of Ukraine can do not only at home. Over time, the officials for some reason began to abandon the KrAZ vehicle equipment in favor of the Belarusian cars. Here is how the ATO fighter characterizes these trucks. "MAZ has better visibility and, compared to the long-haul KrAZ, it is more convenient in the city when cornering. Crushing a small car in a traffic jam is much less likely when you are driving a MAZ. As for comfort, KrAZ turned out to be smoother and more comfortable on the road, Unlike Minsk cars. For maintenance, both cars are very unpretentious, which makes them ideal for service. But the most interesting thing concerns terrain and failures. It turned out that the MAZ is significantly inferior to the same type of KrAZ in all terrain. The MAZ chassis road is much worse in some parts of the road, and the chance of skidding and wagging increases during the winter frosts. During a short period of operation, problems with adhesion were revealed at MAZs, a cabin was also called a sore spot, where everything was done clumsily and with huge gaps even by the standards of the USSR ". In general, the confrontation of KrAZ and MAZ on the Ukrainian front continues.
Engineers from Kremenchuk supply the APU and the National Guard with a mass of specialized heavy-class equipment.
KrAZ-6322 PM-B is a demining machine equipped with a PALFINGER crane with a pulling force of 12 tons. In the case of the hooded IED, you can remotely put it in an armored bathtub in the back and leave. Both double and triaxial versions are available.
Tanker АC-12-63221 (АC-12 on the chassis of the KrAZ-63221 car), developed jointly by the specialists of the SE "45 Experimental Mechanical Plant" and PJSC "AvtoKrAZ". The tank is two-section, calibrated, equipped with a signaling device filling. Nominal capacity 12 m3, curb weight of tanker no more than 14500 kg. The deployment time of the tanker from the traveling position to the working position (folding from the working to the derivative) is no more than 10 minutes.
Trench-pit car on the chassis of a two-axle all-terrain vehicle KrAZ-5233NE.
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"Water wagon" KrAZ-5233BE with a five-cube tank.
Collect "Bastion-01", which should replace the system BM-21 "Grad". Work on Shepetovo repair plant. While these MLRS in the Ukrainian army units.
This is not a complete list of KrAZ factory tuning, but even in all its glory it will fade in front of Ukrainian folk art.
Even dump trucks with minimal reservations are used. Live, however, not for long.
Wrecked and abandoned during the retreat of the "armored KrAZ". And at the very beginning of a short military "career".
KrAZ vehicles repaired and armored for folk remedies for “heroes of the ATO”.
Impressive KrAZ, obviously, has long lived in the ATO area, since it has become so popular as a photo exhibit.
The whole "armored train" from one KrAZ.
A pair of deserved oldies from Kremenchug.
Unique KrAZ, which was supposed to be a tractor for the soldiers' bath (long semi-trailer), built by volunteers. But the project turned out to be irrelevant and only a color tractor went to the front. The gift was prepared 79 airmobile brigade.
Handicraft "shush" based on KrAZ-255B for the 79 brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
A bit of Ukrainian madness at the end.
The ending should ...
KrAZ ‑ 6322 armored chassis with a double cabin and its interior decoration. The base for the next Ukrainian "wunderwatch" SAU "Bogdana".
With the beginning of the civil war, the leadership of PJSC "KrAZ" did everything possible to saturate the Ukrainian Armed Forces with its own technology. And, of course, it was a good money - “to whom the war, and to whom is the mother native”. Various armored cars of the Hulk, Fiona, Cougar type went into the series, but this is a topic for a separate story. The KrAZ vehicles, converted by NPO Praktika into armored vehicles “Fortress on wheels” and “Raptor”, of their own manufacture, became massive. That's what happened to them in the ATO zone.
Hopelessly stuck and destroyed KrAZ-6322 factory reservation from NPO Praktika. Not only he got caught.
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The burnt KrAZ Raptor National Guard under Shyrokino in 2015. The military complain of a weak standard fire extinguishing system.
And these are already trophy copies of “Fortresses on Wheels” and Raptor, which have been commissioned by LDNR armies.
KrAZ-6322 Raptor at the presentation in 2014 year. Machines went to the NSU.
The Kremenchug "predator" in the curb state immediately weighs a ton of 21, takes on the 24 infantryman and has BR6 level armor that protects the vehicle at a distance of 30 m from the "NATO" 7,62х51 mm with a steel core. In general, the Ukrainians provided only all-wheel drive chassis - the removable armored vehicle was booked by the Streit Group. At that time, KrAZ did not know how to book cars, and even now it does not know how - all the armored cars were created in collaboration with foreigners. Money in the civil war of the south-east of Ukraine can do not only at home. Over time, the officials for some reason began to abandon the KrAZ vehicle equipment in favor of the Belarusian cars. Here is how the ATO fighter characterizes these trucks. "MAZ has better visibility and, compared to the long-haul KrAZ, it is more convenient in the city when cornering. Crushing a small car in a traffic jam is much less likely when you are driving a MAZ. As for comfort, KrAZ turned out to be smoother and more comfortable on the road, Unlike Minsk cars. For maintenance, both cars are very unpretentious, which makes them ideal for service. But the most interesting thing concerns terrain and failures. It turned out that the MAZ is significantly inferior to the same type of KrAZ in all terrain. The MAZ chassis road is much worse in some parts of the road, and the chance of skidding and wagging increases during the winter frosts. During a short period of operation, problems with adhesion were revealed at MAZs, a cabin was also called a sore spot, where everything was done clumsily and with huge gaps even by the standards of the USSR ". In general, the confrontation of KrAZ and MAZ on the Ukrainian front continues.
Engineers from Kremenchuk supply the APU and the National Guard with a mass of specialized heavy-class equipment.
KrAZ-6322 PM-B is a demining machine equipped with a PALFINGER crane with a pulling force of 12 tons. In the case of the hooded IED, you can remotely put it in an armored bathtub in the back and leave. Both double and triaxial versions are available.
Tanker АC-12-63221 (АC-12 on the chassis of the KrAZ-63221 car), developed jointly by the specialists of the SE "45 Experimental Mechanical Plant" and PJSC "AvtoKrAZ". The tank is two-section, calibrated, equipped with a signaling device filling. Nominal capacity 12 m3, curb weight of tanker no more than 14500 kg. The deployment time of the tanker from the traveling position to the working position (folding from the working to the derivative) is no more than 10 minutes.
Trench-pit car on the chassis of a two-axle all-terrain vehicle KrAZ-5233NE.
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"Water wagon" KrAZ-5233BE with a five-cube tank.
Collect "Bastion-01", which should replace the system BM-21 "Grad". Work on Shepetovo repair plant. While these MLRS in the Ukrainian army units.
This is not a complete list of KrAZ factory tuning, but even in all its glory it will fade in front of Ukrainian folk art.
Even dump trucks with minimal reservations are used. Live, however, not for long.
Wrecked and abandoned during the retreat of the "armored KrAZ". And at the very beginning of a short military "career".
KrAZ vehicles repaired and armored for folk remedies for “heroes of the ATO”.
Impressive KrAZ, obviously, has long lived in the ATO area, since it has become so popular as a photo exhibit.
The whole "armored train" from one KrAZ.
A pair of deserved oldies from Kremenchug.
Unique KrAZ, which was supposed to be a tractor for the soldiers' bath (long semi-trailer), built by volunteers. But the project turned out to be irrelevant and only a color tractor went to the front. The gift was prepared 79 airmobile brigade.
Handicraft "shush" based on KrAZ-255B for the 79 brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
A bit of Ukrainian madness at the end.
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