The Federal Security Service has the latest Russian armored car

On the profile site there was a picture of the ATletes SUV with the numbers of the special series E*kh in the Moscow region and red-blue flashing beacons. We are talking about the successor of the GAZ-2230 Tiger, but there is little information about the project. In the armored car of the intra-factory index AMN-233120; By open sources, it was possible to find out that the debut took place in 2019, but the serial production of Athletes began in the summer of 2022.

The armored car can have three or a five-door configuration, but the wheeled formula is only 4×4. Compared to the “tiger”, the carrying capacity is increased to 1600 kilograms, and the antimic resistance is increased to two kilograms in TNT equivalent. Under the hood, a more powerful and burdened diesel: domestic 240-horsepower YaMZ-5347.

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The equipped mass of an armored car is about nine tons, a margin – up to 1000 kilometers. Depending on the configuration, ATlet can transport from two to eight fully equipped fighters. From the factory, an armored car can be equipped with a Cord machine gun, AGS-17 automatic grenade launcher and Pecheneg infantry machine gun.

Armored vehicles will debut not only with the Federal Security Service. Last year, a whole line of protected all -terrain vehicles appeared at the Moscow Metro! The state customer took both Russian and Chinese armored vehicles with two and three axes.

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