Updated armored car "Tiger" was first shown to journalists

Updated armored car "Tiger" was first shown to journalists. The upgraded machine complies with current safety requirements that apply to such technology. All components of domestic production.

At the site near Arzamas in the Nizhny Novgorod region is running a new armor. Its ability demonstrates an updated "Tiger-6A". Special vehicle for the Russian army received the 6th protection class. The vehicle survives 600 grams of TNT under the bottom. In the modernized version of the "Tiger" thicker glass, tighter joints and door openings. It enhances ballistic protection. To a wide audience "Tiger - 6A" present for the first time. Weighing in at 8 ton machine hurtling at 60 km/h on the road. In such a machine not to crash or drowning is impossible. One uncomfortable - it's hot. From basic armored car different downloaded by Yaroslavl engine. The car easily overcomes five-foot Brody. "Tiger-6A" with all the previous modifications, is produced at the Arzamas machine-building plant since 2005. "Tigers" different versions supplied in 10 countries.

The car's like a tank on wheels. Inside fit 8 equipped soldiers on the roof of the machine gun, grenade launcher and, if necessary, an unmanned aerial vehicle. The system is a smokescreen, and even features a fire extinguishing system of the wheels. There is a rearmament of the Russian army, and the country's only plant of wheeled armored vehicles are very happy. For 40 years, the company, the conveyor never stopped, neither on weekdays nor in the weekend. In the future, the plant will focus on 6th class of protection during the development of the machines. New car on the basis of "Tiger" may take a few years. The journalists were shown the legend BTR-80. UN peacekeepers ordered a batch of armored vehicles.

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