As it happened, that our country is now difficult period, and part of its territory is covered by the fighting. We will not go into details and touch the political component of the problem, but the fact remains. Are fighting, which involved different techniques, from heavy tanks, to conventional UAZ. So as soon as our country had no combat experience, and the army plundered mercilessly, now it becomes bare the problem of the lack of the necessary armor. In particular armored vehicles, which are so necessary in today's military war and that the army is absolutely not staffed.
It becomes doubly a shame, when you know, that special armored vehicles do not need to buy somewhere abroad, and they can be manufactured by domestic manufacturers armored. Here it is about them and want to tell, and the first car which will give you all what has been learned, This armored "Kozak"
"Kozak" first appearance before the general public even 24 August 2009 year during the parade of Independence Day. On Khreshchatyk, he gathered a large crowd of onlookers around him, and then-Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko, even ride on it. The Head of State was very pleased "Kozak" and promised the creators of big government order. I promised and immediately forgot about it, in fact not until the army was then, and the bee clues in an armored car designs were not provided.
Development and creation of the "Kozak" NGOs engaged in Kiev "Practice", which has extensive experience in the production of collector vehicles, as well as armored VIP-cars and SUVs. "Kozak" stands on a lightweight version 4 IVECO Daily chassis×4, which builds Italian firm SCAM, and thanks to which the car was not too heavy - 5.5 tonnes. For Army armored car is a good indicator.
"Kozak" has a frame-panel construction, that can also be attributed to the benefits of this car. It consists of three main sections, mounted on the chassis apart from each other - the baggage, crew("citadel") and motor. Thanks to this arrangement,, possible to quickly replace damaged elements or change the level of protection by replacing armored sheets.
Section crew, called "Citadel" has a double bottom. Its lower part is made in the form of V-shaped, to dissipate the blast waves. Just for a better protection of the crew from fragments, under the seats placed extra batteries and fuel tank. Sami chair mounted on a special frame, suspended from the sides. This solution allows the crew to minimize injury in bombing.
For manufacturing capsules used durable Swedish SSAB Armox steel thickness 5 mm, but glass "Practice" makes its own. Their thickness is 56 mm and they are able to keep the bullet, Kalashnikov released from a distance 10 m. Just radiation protection system provided in an armored car, counter radio-controlled mines, navigation system, climate control, rearview camera and other.
Powerplant also borrowed from the Swedes, therefore under the hood of the "Kozak" is a 3-liter turbodiesel IVECO F1C, power 176 horsepower. Such a "Kozak" engine is not enough, and the mark of the maximum 120 kmh , not an outstanding performance. I'm sure, the developers are aware of this, and for mass production choose a more powerful unit.
To say anything about the "Kozak" handling quite difficult, after personally visiting at the wheel of the armored car did not have. We can only quote one of the journalists, who visited the test: "Of all the forces trying to pressure on the brake pedal, and at first it seems, nothing is happening. Then the car is still slowing down, but if unwillingly, and starts to chirp ABS. He turns it too hard. On direct steering informative, but rotate the "steering wheel" hard. And most importantly – here is very poor visibility on the starboard side, and in the right mirror can not see absolutely nothing!»
But to cross the "Kozak" problem is not observed. It is able to overcome ford depth 1.5 meters and a width of trenches 0.7 m. Due to the clearance 365 mm and a short candles, Vehicles capable vkarabkivatsya 50-degree rise. Energy-intensive spring vehicle suspension, It helps to maintain a high average speed over rough terrain.
Of course, the comfort of the development of the "Kozak" afterthought, because it is a military vehicle. Therefore, its wheels from GAS-66 have a polymeric insert tire, allowing travel by RV riddled with speeds of up to 50 kmh. Also in the rear has a special compartment for the transport of weapons, and the roof has a round hatch with a soft support for the shooter. The arms package may include heavy machine gun NSVT (12.7mm, 500 rounds) and automatic grenade launcher AG-17 (37mm, 100 Garnet)
The enterprise insist, that "Kozak" can not be built only on the basis of IVECO, but even the old GAZ-66, which in the bins homeland there is a huge amount of. This solution can help, if you want to make N-number of cars here and now, and if they planned to equip our army, it is better to build a new armored vehicles on the new chassis. And indeed, NGO "The Practice" claim, they are open to dialogue and are able to make changes to the design of the "Kozak", when the real orders, which are not yet.
But not the "Kozak" single domestic market represented armored vehicles. There are notable military vehicles, same Dozor-B.
