/ world immediately information/ The coverage of import substitution was topped with intermediate success: the Russian military adopted the KAMAZ-7850 multi-axle chassis, which can now be geared up with Yars and Topol-M nuclear missiles. Till now, they traveled solely on chassis made in Belarus, which allowed Lukashenko to blackmail Russia. However is it price giving up utterly on Belarusian merchandise?
Russia has adopted the KAMAZ-7850 multi-axle chassis, created inside the framework of the work on the event of “Platforma-O”. The all-terrain tractor with a 16×16 wheel system designed in Naberezhnye Chelny may even be used as an set up for “Topol-M” and “Yars” ballistic missiles. Earlier than that, Belarusian know-how was used.
“After the profitable completion of the state trials on the advice of the state fee, the household of the extremely cellular chassis mannequin “Platforma-O” has been accepted into the armed forces of the Russian Federation,” stated a supply from the military-industrial advanced.
The supply reported that inside the first batch, 5 samples from the “Platform-O” household, developed by PAK KAMAZ and produced on the website of “Remdiesel” JSC, will arrive, together with three autos with 25, 50 and 85 tons with 8×8 wheel formulation , 12×12 and 16×16, in addition to heavy-duty and ballast tractors (8×8) for transporting heavy equipment weighing as much as 165 tons and towing attachments and plane as much as 400 tons.
The KAMAZ tractor was demonstrated for the primary time on the Military 2018 discussion board. The machine is supplied with an electrical drive for every wheel and has a turning mode when all wheels flip in a single course and an enormous truck can crawl sideways.
In August 2015, throughout one other row with Moscow, the president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, was outraged that Russia refused to provide not solely weapons, however even parts, attempting to place stress on the top of the post-Soviet republic.
“They’re scaring us that Russia, you see, will invent its personal “centipedes” and transport nuclear warheads by itself – after which it is over!”, the Belarusian president stated on the time. “If they’ve brains and cash and so they do not, allow them to invent them!”
Three years have handed and Russia has actually invented its “centipede”. Final summer season, Protection Minister Sergei Shoigu introduced the completion of state trials of the Platform-O tugboat. Quickly after, Vladislav Polonsky, adviser to the overall director of KAMAZ, the top of the Platform-O mission, set a deadline of 10-12 years by which the dependence of Russia’s strategic nuclear forces on Belarusian merchandise could be eradicated. As of that date, the armed forces will likely be geared up solely with indigenous high-mobility modular platforms (MMPs).
As Polonsky recalled, now the Russian troops use chassis and tractors manufactured by the Minsk Wheeled Tractor Plant (MZKT), on which greater than 60 sorts of weapons are put in, together with the Iskander and Smerch missile methods, the Bal coastal complexes, “Bastion”, “Bryag” and “Rubezh”, anti-aircraft missile methods S-300PMU-2, S-400 “Triumph”. As well as, amongst them is the Belarusian multi-axis chassis, which is used for the Topol-M and Yars cellular missile methods.
“There will likely be a time period when each Russian and Belarusian chassis will co-exist within the Russian military. These are essentially completely different machines, it’ll have its personal difficulties,” emphasised Polonsky.
The editor of the journal “Arsenal of the Fatherland” Alexey Leonkov believes that the brand new KAMAZ-7850 chassis will likely be wanted primarily for the armed forces within the Donbas republics. “It’s based mostly on the well-known Pantsir S-1 anti-aircraft missile system.” “Pantsir” is already needed in lots of nations – orders are multiplying daily, everybody desires to have “Pantsir”. On the idea of such a chassis, you may create armored vehicles, which is why it’s presently in such demand. The off-road four-wheeled KAMAZ “Mustang” – on it too, solely with a 4×4 wheel system. And a truck for transporting personnel, it’s a machine with elevated cross-country skill and wheel system 8×8″, stated the professional.
“On the final assembly between Lukashenko and Putin, each of them stated that the turnover will enhance, and MAZ will likely be purchased in ample portions. With its traits, KamAZ-7850 fits our Ministry of Protection, however this doesn’t imply that we are going to now not purchase chassis from Minsk. Our chassis has its personal targets, the Belarusian one has its personal,” stated Leonkov.
Lukashenko understands that he receives cash for the supply of the truck, Leonkov recalled, including that he has been to numerous arms exhibitions many occasions, together with representatives of the Belarusian military-industrial advanced. “They need Russia to purchase extra from them. It is very important perceive that Belarus has tense relations with Western Europe, they’re additionally reluctant to just accept the merchandise of Belarusian enterprises”, Leonkov summarized. On the similar time, the professional doesn’t think about the choice of Russian automobile producers to create their very own tractor for example of “import substitution”, since Belarus stays our ally within the CSTO.
Dmitry Bolkunets, an professional on the Greater College of Economics, notes: “Russia was pressured to comply with the coverage of import substitution in opposition to Belarusian enterprises after the violent quarrels with Batka since 2015. Throughout these arguments, he made a press release about “centipedes”. There was a take care of Lukashenko about Russia shopping for from MZKT, however the president of Belarus set a excessive value. It was round 2-3 billion {dollars}. Then the Russian facet stated that for such cash it’s simpler to construct one’s personal enterprise”, remembers Bolkunets.
The professional emphasised that the Belarusian manufacturing unit for the manufacturing of chassis for navy gear will not be owned by Lukashenko, however “the legacy of the Soviet Union”. “Lukashenko makes use of this heritage with out including new applied sciences. These are all achievements of the 70s and 80s. Due to this fact, with out a Russian gross sales market, it will likely be troublesome for the Belarusian enterprise to outlive in the marketplace. They must search for patrons in different areas of the world,” he says.
Bolkunets recalled that there was as soon as speak of the unification of KAMAZ and MAZ, however “the Belarusian facet set unfavorable circumstances for Russia” and now each enterprises are creating in parallel. “In the long term, this can result in Belarus beginning to lose the market. KAMAZ won’t need to admit rivals from Belarus”, predicts Bolkunets.
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Translation: V.Sergeev
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