Typhoon (family of armored vehicles)

The family of armored vehicles is intended for the transport of personnel, as well as for the installation of various target equipment or weapons systems. On its basis, you can create communication vehicles, mobile artillery systems, truck cranes, transport and launch vehicles of unmanned aerial vehicles, tow trucks, excavators and other modifications ^[1] . The family will serve as a single unified platform for the "light" brigades of the Ground Forces ^[4] .

Attempts to create a unified automobile platform for special forces military units have been undertaken in the USSR since the early 1980s. In the 1990s, a secret Garage program was launched on this topic, the work on which was not completed due to the collapse of the country ^{[5] [6]} .

In 2010, the “Concept for the development of military automobile equipment of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation for the period until 2020” was approved, which stipulates “the development of highly standardized families of armored vehicles”.

For the first time, machines of the Typhoon family (modular KAMAZ-63968 and Ural-63095, as well as the single-volume Ural-63099) were demonstrated at the beginning of June 2011 at the test site of the Research and Testing Center (NIIC AT 3 Central Research Institute of the RF Ministry of Defense) in Bronnitsy near Moscow. The Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Anatoly Serdyukov drew special attention to them: “These are absolutely new, modern and very promising machines ... I believe that in the coming years the Ministry of Defense will purchase such machines” ^[7] .

On June 8, 2013, on the website of the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper, in a report about the visit by the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergey Shoigu to the KAMAZ plant, the modernized Typhoon family cars were shown, the text of the article also mentioned the presentation to the Minister of a new car that does not have its own name. In a video report to the article, two vehicles not previously presented to the public were demonstrated - a two-axle bonnet armored car and an experimental armored car with the original glazing of the driver’s seat ^[8] .

On August 7, 2013, during a visit to KamAZ by the head of Tatarstan, Rustam Minnikhanov, the first running variant of the Typhoon armored car was demonstrated for the first time ^[9] .

All cars of the family are unified by engines ( YaMZ-536 ), information management system , mine protection and suspension. On all vehicles for the transportation of personnel, the installation of a remotely controlled machine gun module is possible. Combined armor protection (ceramics and steel), as well as bulletproof glass, provide circular protection according to the fourth level of the STANAG 4569 standard (14.5 mm B-32 armor-piercing bullets) ^[10] . Mine protection of vehicles is provided by a V-shaped bottom that absorbs the energy of explosion by the seats and corresponds to level 3b in accordance with STANAG 4569 (explosive device up to 8 kg in TNT equivalent). Roofs of cars have hatches for emergency evacuation of personnel in the event of a rollover. Video cameras are installed around the perimeter of the armored vehicles, which allows you to monitor the situation without leaving the transport module, as well as control the armored vehicle if it is impossible to use the windshield. The inhabited space on all machines is hermetically sealed, with artificially maintained overpressure, the filtration of the incoming air is ensured by the installation of the FVU-100. All machines of the family can be performed in biaxial or triaxial versions.

Typhoon K-63968

Cabless multifunctional modular car. In the modification for the transport of personnel can carry up to 10 or 16 people. Landing can be carried out both by ramp and through the door. The cockpit forehead has reinforced armor, which provides protection against 30 mm shells; installation of an armored shield covering the windshield is possible. According to other sources, the armor is designed only for hitting bullets of 7.62 mm caliber, which corresponds to the 3rd category according to STANAG . Mine protection corresponds to category 3b. The landing compartment is equipped with triplexes, as well as monitors displaying information from external video cameras. Currently produced in series.

Typhoon K-63969

An armored personnel carrier with a 6x6 wheel arrangement and a remotely controlled cannon. ^[11] One-volume armored module (cabin and body - a single design) ^{[12] [13]} . It was first publicly shown in June 2013 in the workshop at the assembly stage. It has a circular reservation, designed to withstand bullets of 14.5 and 12.7 mm caliber (corresponds to level 4 according to STANAG 4569 ). Mine protection corresponds to level 3b. The curb weight is 19.7 tons, and the payload is 4 tons. Serially not produced ^[14] .

Typhoon K-53949 Typhoon 4x4

Multipurpose cross-country armored car , army 4x4 off-road vehicle ^[15] . Combined protection from ceramic armor is installed on it, armored steel is under it. Gross weight - more than 15 tons, top speed - 105 km / h.

Application: guard and escort of convoys, sanitary transportation, engineering, radiation, chemical and biological reconnaissance, reconnaissance and command post staff vehicle, fire support vehicle. The car was first presented at the Innovation Day of South-Eastern Military District in October 2015 ^[16] .

Typhoon K-4386 (Typhoon Airborne)

4-wheel armored car for the airborne. Currently being tested.

Ural-63095 Typhoon-U

Bonnet multifunctional modular car (three-seater armored cabin and a replaceable body-armored module) ^[17] .

Ural-63099 Typhoon-U

Hood single-volume car for the transport of personnel. It can carry up to 12 people, landing is carried out through the door. ^[eighteen] .

•   Russia - about 180 units of Typhoon-U and 260 Typhoon-K, as of May 2017 ^[19]
•   Uzbekistan - Typhoon-K was demonstrated at the opening ceremony of the Tank Biathlon in Uzbekistan ^[20]

• "Shot"
• "Boomerang"
• Armored Army Modifications Ural-4320

• Sergeyev V. Typhoon comes from the Urals, or MRAP in Russian (Russian) // Equipment and weapons yesterday, today, tomorrow: magazine. - 2014. - May ( No. 05 ). - S. 2-9 .

• Tests of KamAZ "Typhoon" started in Tatarstan
• Armored Car UralAZ "Typhoon-U". Video article. OJSC "Broadcasting Company of the RF Armed Forces" STAR "
• Armored car KAMAZ "Typhoon-K". Video article. OJSC "Broadcasting Company of the RF Armed Forces" STAR "
• New Russian armored cars. Military acceptance. (STAR ​​Channel)