Russian mobile ground missile systems (PHRK) can upgrade to the new car base. Developed new Kamaz trucks for strategic missile systems have successfully completed the state tests, transfers “Warspot” with reference to the TASS.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on this occasion, that public testing of the new tractor KAMAZ-7950 were successful, and now the work goes on “binding” rockets to the tractor. The Minister explained, it is not a quick deal, and shift the missile from one platform to another it is necessary to. This work is progressing well, Shoigu said and added,, that next week the Defense Ministry plans to sign a contract for a new tractor.
For the first time the development of the Russian tractor for strategic missile systems in the framework of the project “Platform-O” it was stated in an international forum “Army 2015”. The program provides for the creation of a whole family of cars, to be used in the armed forces as tractors strategic missiles (including heavy), to transport military equipment, Mobile carriers hostels, communication centers, command posts and staffs. New KamAz-7950 with 16 × formula wheel 16 and payload 85 so it developed as part of this project.
In the Russian army as a carrier missile systems currently used tractors of the Minsk Automobile Plant, to which the Russian military claims were due to low cornering stability. Russian car in this sense, is unique: it has all the wheels turning and the tractor can even move sideways.
