Arab Leclerks await Belarusian tractors

Belarus hopes to get another contract for the supply of additional carriers of heavy military equipment to the United Arab Emirates (UAE). This was announced by Chairman of the State Military-Industrial Committee of the country Roman Golovchenko.

We are about to finalize a major contract [with the UAE] that was announced a long time ago: tank tractors. We are negotiating to build it up and sign a new agreement for the transfer of the same kind of equipment after [it] tests

- Golovchenko explained on September 13 at a meeting held in Belarus with Crown Prince Abu Dhabi Muhammad bin Zayed.

In October 2016, it was announced that the Minsk Wheel and Tractor Plant (MZKT, which manufactures products under the Volat brand), will supply the latest conveyors manufactured by them in the UAE (the basis of the tank fleet of which are Leclerks):

This is a fairly important contract, the implementation of which should begin next year. Now the equipment is undergoing final tests in the UAE

- said Golovchenko, who was then the ambassador to the Emirates.

Characteristics of the MZKT-741351 + 999421 + 837211 road train:

Wheel formula: 8x8, load capacity: 136 tons, engine: Caterpillar C18 (USA), power: 812 h.p.

Comments

[tihonmarine]

Well done Belarusians, good tractors. Soviet school is working. That's just with the engines they also have problems.

[Nemo]

Which engine the customer chooses is the one to put it on. Russia - YaMZ, Arabs - caterpillar.

[tihonmarine]

Quote: Nemo

Which engine the customer chooses is the one to put it on.

Well then, as we say, "everything is a bunch." Every whim for your money.

[Rostislav]

So the problem is that the customer of Kata chooses, not YaMZ. That's when the opposite will happen ...

[donavi49]

There are no special problems, but why do Arabs need YaMZ? When they have a good CAT story, plus service coverage. So they order. This is an option. Also, a climate system reinforced for cold is ordered. Well, etc.

[Ivan 1980]

If they hadn’t used Russian improvements in these trucks, they didn’t have a price, otherwise we modified them and they sell almost * our equipment * everywhere.

[Nemo]

Do you have any confirmation of your words or is it an empty chatter? In the news you can find information that the MZKT produces bridges, axles, suspension for Typhoon-u.

[gregor6549]

And what kind of Russian modifications in these "trucks" are used at MZKT?
You are not lurking. Tell the world the truth of the womb. And at the same time, find out that back in the first half of the last century 90x, the MZKT installed on some models of its tractors a digital information management system (IMS) created by the Minsk Research Institute of Digital Television on the basis of the on-board IMS of the SU 27 aircraft developed by the same research institute.
Then they only dreamed about such systems in the automobile industry of Russia. And the developments of KAMAZs and BAZ, which tried and are trying to replace the Belarusian tractors in the RF Armed Forces with their own, are based on technical solutions of the MZKT. So you don’t need to sing songs that have already snapped up about the harmful Belarusians who only do what they steal from the lack of analogs of Russian know-how.

[Fedor Sokolov]

Well, the Old Man brought his family savings to the Arabian Peninsula and now it has become easier to trade Belarusian military products.

[Lipchanin]

Beautiful car. Well done Belarusians

[bistrov.]

At one time, he traveled a lot on the MAZ-537, the equipment is good, although it is not without some drawbacks.

[BARKAS]

By the way, the KZKT where MAZ-537 was produced in the early 90s also received a similar order for NATO, but I don’t remember whether it was successful or not.

[Vadim02rus]

At one time, he traveled a lot on the MAZ-537, the equipment is good, although it is not without some drawbacks.

It was the same thing. The truth is quite small. For a couple of hundred km: a cut-off compressor pulley (there are two of them), the gearbox is jammed. They didn’t reach the destination. Thrown into the field under .... in the Samara steppes The further fate of this papalaz is unknown to me.

[Mavrikiy]

carrying capacity: 136 t,

For two Leclercs at a time?

[Stas 2rep]

And there is. On the semi-trailer 2 rpm, in the desert rushing like a beast. The weakest link is the wheels, tires do not last long.

[Lexus]

Excellent tractors. Only I am against the maneuvers of oversized vehicles under the wing of the Ruslan. And if it hooks, or something "bounces off" into the engine. I do not understand such "consequences" for the sake of a beautiful photo. Silly kindergarten.

[Michman]

MZKT-Minsk wheel-tractor factory.Rzhu like a horse !!!!!

[dmitrii1885]

Minsk Wheel Tractor Plant, shake the hay.

[Michman]

So what am I talking about? As written in the article?

[Nycomed]

Are Belarusians not under sanctions? Where are the "Katovskie" engines from?

[Mic1969]

So what, they introduced censorship on VO? The author screwed up with the "Minsk Wheel-Tractor Plant (MZKT, producing products under the Volat trademark)" and will now ban and delete comments? Democratic, what ...