New Generation Military Transport of the Vietnam People's Army

28 Mei 2019

Zil-130 truck of the VPA (photo : SputnikNews)

In the last few years, we can see that the military transport forces of the Vietnam People's Army began to make big changes when continuously equipped with many new generation of high-mobility, capable military vehicles. Large transport capacity to replace old transport vehicles.

Although sometimes we still see a military convoy of our soldiers marching on the road with the Zil-130, Zil-157 - the cars that were put into use dozens of years ago, even the life of some of them is greater than the lifespan of the combatants, but gradually the situation is different.

KZKT tank tranporter (photo : Rob Lee)

In fact, during combat drills or training in most recent army troops, we see a growing presence of new, modern generation of transport vehicles originating from developed countries are among the top in the world.

This is a quiet but clear development step, creating a great change in quality for the automobile transport force. Having this result is due to the timely attention of the higher level to the transport units, especially transport units of strategic level, campaign when prioritizing to buy some new cars.

We can see the famous brand cars such as Kamaz, Hyundai, KZKT tank transporter appear more and more. It is possible to look at a few new generation trucks that have just been put into operation recently.

Truck Hyundai HD170 of the 971 Brigade (photo : SputnikNews)

Hyundai HD170

This is a new series of cars manufactured by Korea's leading Hyundai firm with modern, dynamic design, sturdy chassis with large load capacity and spacious, comfortable cabin and equipped with powerful public engines. Productivity up to 290 horsepower combined with optimized designed drive system, for excellent operating performance with low operating costs.

Hyundai HD170 8.5 ton has a steel-bearing body with the most advanced metallurgical technology, to avoid metal expansion on iron, engineers have designed the holes arranged in a very scientific way. learn. Another outstanding feature that is only available on Hyundai cars is the bridge behind the car that is designed to be large, capable of high load capacity, and traction on all terrain.

Kamaz 43253 truck (photo : Kamaz)

Kamaz-43253

It is known that this is a new generation of cars built by leading Russian truck manufacturer Kamaz, they possess outstanding features such as durability, reliability, reasonable price and especially the ability to cross country quite well. .

The car is equipped with a 4-stroke V8 turbocharged engine, KAMAZ-740.31-240, which uses diesel fuel, a 10.85 liter cylinder capacity for a peak power of 240 hp and a maximum torque of 932 Nm in Tassel 1,400.

This powerful engine meets Euro-2 emission standards, which is enough to "push" the car with a total weight of 14,590kg to reach a maximum speed of 100km / h. The maximum permissible load is 7.5 tons of the top type among cars in the same segment.

The car is particularly suitable to operate on many types of terrain, especially plain roads. With a reserve of up to 1,000km, every time the fuel is filled, the car is capable of running in a row from Hanoi to Quang Ngai.

Although Kamaz-43253 is only a 4x2 wheeled version of the truck, the rear wheel drive is capable of overcoming relatively well-stocked terrain, only inferior to all-wheel drive vehicles.

(SputnikNews)