ChTZ donates two armored vehicles to Tankprom Museum
6 February 2015 (11:30)
February 6, 2015. Two experimental armored vehicles developed at ChTZ (Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant) design office in the sixties and in the eighties were handed over to Uralvagonzavod. The unique BMP 1 (Object 765) and BMPT (Object 781) will serve as exhibits for Tankprom Museum, which is to open in Nizhniy Tagil in 2020.
According to Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s press service, BMP 1, designed at Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant in 1966, was produced on a serial scale.
‘Thanks to the machine’s new firing options, infantry troops could be converted into motorized rifle ones, who, together with the tank force, were the basis of the Soviet Armed Forces,’ the press service says.
A trial sample of Object 765 is boat-shaped and made from rolled armored plates. Its front armor plates, fitted under a wide slope angle, can withstand shell fragments and hard-target bullets of small weapons and heavy-caliber machine-guns. The vehicle is also fitted with nuclear weapons protection and an automatic firefighting system.
‘Object 781 is particularly valuable; the experimental fire support vehicle was designed on the basis of T-72 tank in 1988. Only two copies of it exist, one of them being at BTT Museum in Kubinka and the other one at Uralvagonzavod. The BMPT prototype’s function was to resist infantry troops, helicopters, and light armored vehicles, which is similar to the functions of machines produced at Uralvagonzavod at the moment. However, the component parts and options are quite different. For one, the museum exhibit has two independent weapon stations and is meant for the crew of seven people,’ the press service says.
Both vehicles are noticeably damaged and have some parts missing: the plant has used them for various trials, including engineering ones, for decades. Nevertheless, Uralvagonzavod promised to restore both BMP 1 and BMPT.
According to Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s press service, BMP 1, designed at Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant in 1966, was produced on a serial scale.
‘Thanks to the machine’s new firing options, infantry troops could be converted into motorized rifle ones, who, together with the tank force, were the basis of the Soviet Armed Forces,’ the press service says.
A trial sample of Object 765 is boat-shaped and made from rolled armored plates. Its front armor plates, fitted under a wide slope angle, can withstand shell fragments and hard-target bullets of small weapons and heavy-caliber machine-guns. The vehicle is also fitted with nuclear weapons protection and an automatic firefighting system.
‘Object 781 is particularly valuable; the experimental fire support vehicle was designed on the basis of T-72 tank in 1988. Only two copies of it exist, one of them being at BTT Museum in Kubinka and the other one at Uralvagonzavod. The BMPT prototype’s function was to resist infantry troops, helicopters, and light armored vehicles, which is similar to the functions of machines produced at Uralvagonzavod at the moment. However, the component parts and options are quite different. For one, the museum exhibit has two independent weapon stations and is meant for the crew of seven people,’ the press service says.
Both vehicles are noticeably damaged and have some parts missing: the plant has used them for various trials, including engineering ones, for decades. Nevertheless, Uralvagonzavod promised to restore both BMP 1 and BMPT.
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