Ural 63099 Typhoon MRAP
Ural Typhoon is Russia's multi-functional, modular armored MRAP vehicle family. Chassis consists of the car bonnet, frame, all-wheel drive, three-axle.[1] The Typhoon is part of Russia's large vehicle Typhoon MRAP program.
Produced by Ural Automotive Plant (controlled as of 2013 GAZ Group).
Versions[]
Can be used as reconnaissance, command and staff vehicles, machinery EW / RTR or communications, ambulance or to conduct engineering, radiation, chemical and biological reconnaissance of transportation.
Features[2][]
Two variants have been identified thus far.
Ural 63055[]
- Crew: 3 + 14 in module
Ural-63059[]
Ural Typhoon passenger compartment
Ural Typhoon rear module
- Total weight: 24 tons
- Crew: 3 + 16 in module
- Configuration: 6 × 6
- Power: JAMZ-5367 450 hp turbodiesel
- Transmission: six-speed automatic transmission,
- Transfer Case: mechanical two-stage,
- Tyres: bullet-proof with automatic sealing
- Armor type: Laminated glass and composite (steel and ceramic)
- Protection class: proof from 14.5 mm armor-piercing bullets, up to 8 kg of explosives underneath
- Armament: remote-controlled unit mounting a 7.62 mm HMG or 14.5 mm KPV HMG, loopholes
Media[]
In the movie A Good Day to Die Hard, John McClane and his son Jack are chased through the streets of Moscow by a corrupt politician's henchmen operating a Ural Typhoon.
Notes[]
- ↑ http://old.redstar.ru/2011/09/14_09/1_01.html (Yuri Avdeev The attraction of Nizhny Tagil "Red Star" (14 September 2011). Retrieved October 12, 2012)
- ↑ http://ural-servis.ru/news/?id=747
See also[]
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