“It is becoming a popular armored car in the RF Armed Forces”: the Western press noted an increase in the supply of Z-STS Akhmat

More and more photographs of Z-STS “Akhmat” armored vehicles present at the front or being transferred to the North Military District zone are appearing on the Internet, which allows us to talk about the growth of the fleet of these vehicles in the Russian army.

Initially, the Z-STS "Akhmat" 6x6 was used only by the Chechen units of the National Guard. According to Defense24, this model was designed specifically for Ramzan Kadyrov. The armored car is capable of carrying 10 fighters, has a high level of armor and the ability to place a machine gun on the roof. New equipment during the NWO was also evaluated by other units of the Russian army.

Z-STS is becoming a popular design in the RF Armed Forces and to a certain extent is replacing the 6x6 Typhoons built on the Ural or KamAZ chassis.

- noted in the Western press.

So, in August 2023, on the approach to the NVO zone, a new batch of Akhmatov was seen in service with one of the units of the RF Armed Forces.

The Z-STS "Akhmat" was created on the basis of the three-axle all-wheel drive "KamAZ-5350" (with the borrowing of a number of components from other armored vehicles), built according to the bonnet scheme and produced by the "Remdizel" company. It has protection similar to Typhoon armored vehicles (the hull is made of rolled armor and equipped with armored glass). The car can be transported by military transport aircraft aviation, for example, Il-76 or An-124.

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[cold wind]

Lucky car. Passed only due to the absence of pests from the Ministry of Defense.

[svp67]

Quote from cold wind

Passed only due to the absence of pests from the Ministry of Defense.

And what does this have to do with the Russian Guard, on whose order it was created and the Moscow Region?

[Mavrikiy]

Quote from cold wind

Lucky car. Passed only due to the absence of pests from the Ministry of Defense.

Go ahead, hurt Kadyrov. no.

[Alex_Bora]

Quote: Mavrikiy

Quote from cold wind

Lucky car. Passed only due to the absence of pests from the Ministry of Defense.

Go ahead, hurt Kadyrov. no.

Kadyrov has nothing to do with it.
Remdizel is a KAMAZ enterprise.

[Alexander Kazakov_2]

It could have remained one of the three hundred concepts of the "Russian MCI" if not for a firm order from the Chechen National Guard.

In general, the machine is a compromise and in many ways the Typhoon is cooler. But yielding in some moments, Akhmat is much easier to manufacture and cheaper. As far as I remember from an interview with the Remdizelevsky authorities, almost 5 Akhmats are assembled in the same time as 1 Typhoon.

For wartime, this is the main factor.

[Cat Murzik]

A hoodless vehicle in the army will never be better than a hooded design. On a hooded vehicle, the wheels are moved forward and when a mine is detonated, the explosion is in front, while on a bonnetless vehicle, it is under the crew

[your1970]

Quote: Cat Murzik

A hoodless vehicle in the army will never be better than a hooded design. On a hooded vehicle, the wheels are moved forward and when a mine is detonated, the explosion is in front, while on a bonnetless vehicle, it is under the crew

If there is anti-tank, then the driver or passenger will get it anyway. An extra meter of distance will not make the weather

[PROXOR]

Yes, anything, if only not in a tented body, an open cabin or on armor.

[Eug]

We need a balance - simplicity, cost, high reliability, maintainability and combat characteristics. Banal truths, but in the pursuit of personal gain we often run into attempts to pass off failures as prodigies that “have no analogues in the world.” Maybe, often there are no analogues because no one needs them in figs ... perhaps it's time to reincarnate the BTR-152, of course, on a modern technical basis.

[D-east]

The BTR-152 just didn’t have a roof, which is a minus in modern times, but so, its current grandchildren only differ in modern filling, the idea is the same.

[Bad_gr]

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The BTR-152 just didn’t have a roof, which is a minus in these days.........

[Bad_gr]

Wow, even here the minus earned. Someone is sure (and expressed this with his assessment) that the photo is not a roof, but an open body.

[Fangaro]

Got better here. Minus is not a specialist poked. A little hand trembled.

[Bad_gr]

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Got better here. Minus is not a specialist poked. A little hand trembled.

Happens. In the first seconds, the score can be replayed by immediately pressing the opposite score

[D-east]

Goofed up , indeed, since 1957 they began to produce with a roof. Events in Hungary prompted this.

[Alexander Kazakov_2]

In fact, the BTR-152, even in the original, is quite suitable for carrying mortars and carrying loads.

[Essex62]

In our unit 152, he rode “by force” back in ’83. It’s a glorious lane through the Siberian snowdrifts. Then they drove me somewhere.

[rotfuks]

I suspect that the whole secret is that KamAZ simply has greater production capacity than Ural.

[Alexey RA]

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I suspect that the whole secret is that KamAZ simply has greater production capacity than Ural.

Plus, KamAZ has a wider range of serial chassis on which you can put an armored hull.

[Alexander Kazakov_2]

"Typhoons" are from "Ural" ("Typhoon-U") and from "Kamaz" ("Typhoon-K"). Kamazovskys are armored and armed by "Remdizel"

[Alexey RA]

The Z-STS "Akhmat" was created on the basis of the three-axle all-wheel drive "KamAZ-5350" (with the borrowing of a number of components from other armored vehicles), built according to the bonnet scheme and produced by the "Remdizel" company. It has protection similar to Typhoon armored vehicles (the hull is made of rolled armor and equipped with armored glass).

In fact, the 3-STS is a simplified and cheaper version of the Typhoon on the chassis of a serial truck (a classic BA is an armored vehicle: an armored hull on the chassis of a non-combat vehicle). What they wrote on VO exactly a year ago.

Over the past few years, the Remdiesel plant has been producing armored vehicles of the Typhoon family. This technique has high tactical and technical characteristics and is actively used by the army and law enforcement agencies. However, the price of high performance and potential is a certain complexity of design and the corresponding complexity of production. All this affects the cost of finished samples.

The goal of the XNUMX-STS project was to achieve all the required characteristics using simple solutions. Due to this, it was planned to speed up the development and preparation of production, as well as simplify the production of serial equipment and reduce its final cost. As reported, all these tasks were successfully solved.

The new armored car was made on a serial truck chassis with suitable mobility and payload characteristics. No significant changes were made to its design. The armored body was made in the form of a module mounted directly on the chassis frame. The carrier circuit of the hull was abandoned due to excessive labor intensity. At the same time, it was possible to provide the necessary composition of devices.

The resulting armored car meets the requirements of the customer. In terms of tactical, technical and operational parameters, it may be inferior to the Tafuns or other developments of this kind. However, due to reasonable compromises, it was possible to reduce the cost of the machine, as well as speed up its production by 7-10 times.

[Feodor13]

It is somewhat reminiscent of the "hood" of Kamaz - Dakar.
When we return to Dakar, the guys from Kamaz-Master should draw parallels between the versions.
Subconsciously, designers know how to do this...for example, by positioning the headlights so that the French and others...our Kamaz will stand in their throats for a long time.
There is no need to be ashamed of the work of your people.

[Sumotori_380]

I'm afraid no one will notice except you.

[Vadim S]

I was driving to the dacha, three new ones drove past, they drove to the unit, huge horror!

[tun5t]

They remind me of the "boxes" that we went to Paris-Dakar, just paint them blue - from the side there are the same rumblers

[sub307]

1. "Z-STS is becoming a popular design in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and, to a certain extent, is replacing the Typhoons 6x6, created on the Ural or KamAZ chassis[i]["
- noted in the Western press." Well, okay..., read on... 2. "Z-STS "Akhmat" created on the basis of the three-axle all-wheel drive KamAZ-5350...[i]" Nobody sees a contradiction between the first and second statements?

[Oleg Ogorod]

Chassis military, but bezkapotnoe.
Converted to a hood version.
10 people for such a big car is not so much.
Maybe it would be better to do it like American small, but high-speed armored vehicles, in which 6-7 people fit.

[Alexander Kazakov_2]

In this class, we produce "Tigers". But they are not competitors to full-fledged MRIs.

[Alexey RA]

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Nobody sees a contradiction between the first and second statements?

It's just that in the first statement they forgot to add the clarification "special" before the word "chassis".

As a matter of fact, "Typhoons" are not armored cars. These are classic armored personnel carriers - armored infantry transporters on a special chassis, designed to safely deliver soldiers to the front line, but without the fire support function.
But the 3-STS is a classic armored car: a non-combat chassis, dressed in armor.

[Alexander Kazakov_2]

"Typhoon-K" is an army vehicle, "Akhmat" (its significantly simplified version) is a vehicle of the National Guard. No contradiction

[Nikolay Bulatov]

This is what a normal technical specification means

[TheWatcher]

Still, Typhoon-U Ural-63095 will be better - as a wheeled armored personnel carrier, it is ideal. It would be nice if the MO ordered it for the infantry.

[Alexander Kazakov_2]

So "Typhoon-U" is even more expensive and more complicated than "Typhoon-K". Instead of any of them, for the same number of man-hours, the work of "Akhmatov" is collected 7-10 times more.

And if you don’t count money and labor intensity at all, then it’s best to carry infantry on the T-15! 8))

[Zaurbek]

Z-STS Akhmat - made entirely on KAMAZ units. Typhoons - with removed bridges and an Allison machine gun. Now URAL is launching production of 9-12 tons of bridges. You can make the same KAMAZ Z-STS Akhmat 1,5 times heavier (more armored).

[Atlas]

And for some reason I thought that it was made on the basis of the Urals.

[Zaurbek]

Not a fundamental difference, I think. Ural was given 4x4 versions. They were also at Army 2023 and I saw them along the way. And more.

[dump22]

https://wikiwarriors.org/wiki/Бронеавтомобиль_Ахмат

... an order for the development of the future Z-STS was received in the spring of 2022, shortly after the start of the war in Ukraine .... Project development activities took only 25 days .... May 9 they were shown at a parade in Grozny.

The armored body was made in the form of a module mounted directly on the chassis frame. The carrier circuit of the hull was abandoned due to excessive labor intensity.

The level of protection of the case is declared as "very high", without disclosing specific indicators.

The presence of specialized mine protection is not reported.

For the first time, this armored vehicle was seen on the battlefield of the Russian-Ukrainian war in early October 2022. The Ukrainian Defense Forces destroyed the first such armored vehicle in the village of Novopetrivtsi, Kherson region. Officially confirmed 6 destroyed armored cars, 1 damaged and 1 captured by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

[Dimon-chik-79]

Better more not so expensive than little expensive Typhoons.
I wonder why the Shot just didn’t go ...
Well, indeed, why not give a second life to the stored BTR-40 and BTR-152. They can be installed and mortars and anti-aircraft guns. The same BTR-40, put a new engine on it and install a hydrach, it will be better in every way, and a multiple, than the loaves and goats transferred by volunteers ...

[Zaurbek]

The Russian Guard also has a 2-axle analogue, from the Urals