Bryansky Avtomobilny Zavod

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Brjanski Avtomobilny Zavod (BAZ)
Брянский автомобильный завод (БАЗ)
legal form AO
founding 1958
Seat RussiaRussia Russia , Bryansk
Branch Vehicle construction , defense industry
Website www.baz32.ru

Military vehicles from BAZ from current production

The Brjanski Awtomobilny Sawod , Russian Брянский автомобильный завод , also BAZ , German Brjansker Automobilwerk , is a Russian commercial vehicle manufacturer based in the city of Brjansk . The company should not be confused with the Borispolsker Autowerk ( Russian: Бориспольский автозавод ), a Ukrainian bus manufacturer founded in 2002, which also operates internationally under the abbreviation BAZ .

history

A T-180 bulldozer from 1976 in Germany (2010)
A BAZ-5937 of the Osa anti-aircraft missile system
ZIL-131, for which components were manufactured at the Bryansk plant

The company was founded in June 1958 as a branch of the vehicle manufacturer Zavod imeni Lichatschowa . Initially, it was planned to connect a tool production facility to an existing steelworks. However, components for the BTR-152 and various amphibious vehicles such as the ZIS-485 were already being manufactured in the early 1960s . From 1958 various heavy crawler tracks were also developed and produced. The T-180 chain tractor, for example , which was exported to various countries, including the GDR, was one of the factory's first in-house developments. At peak times, up to 1,400 of these machines were produced per year.

Also in the first half of the 1960s, the company received an extensive government contract for the production of heavy all-terrain trucks. These were mainly designed for the military as mobile missile launchers. From development to series production, all tasks were taken over by BAZ. The best- known product from this time is the ZIL-135 , which was still developed at ZIL, but was completely manufactured by BAZ with the exception of a few prototypes. Other vehicles, mainly used by the military, that were produced at BAZ were u. a .:

The model series BAZ-5937/5938/5939 . It found worldwide distribution as a base and reload vehicle for the Osa anti-aircraft missile system . The high off-road mobility and amphibian ability made this system unique in the 1970s.

The models BAZ-5921 / BAZ-5922 (from 1974) served as base or supply vehicles for the tactical surface-to-ground missile complex 9K79 Totschka , which was used in a number of Warsaw Pact armies. The short-range missile system R-400 Oka was based on the four-axis derivative BAZ-6944/6950 .

From 1967, additional parts such as axles, gears and winches were manufactured for the mass-produced ZIL-131 . At the beginning of the 1980s, it was decided at a political level to create production capacities for up to 165,000 smaller diesel engines per year in the Brjansk automobile plant. These were to be used in various machines and vehicles from Soviet production. To what extent and how far this company was implemented is not known. The fact is that engines are no longer produced at BAZ today.

From 1990 there were efforts to set up extensive production of small vans at BAZ. In 1994 the company finally had the capacity to produce around 2000 vans per year, but after the dissolution of the Comecon, the sales market for vehicles from Russian production largely collapsed. In addition, competitiveness with foreign manufacturers was doubtful.

After only 157 BAZ-3782 and BAZ-3783 vehicles were sold between 1994 and 1996, the product line was completely discontinued. The automobile plant, which a few years earlier employed around 18,000 people, almost completely ceased operations.

Current production

The massive economic problems of the 1990s forced the plant to specialize in its core competence, the construction of heavy all-terrain trucks. The first new model was the BAZ-6909, which went into series production in the second half of the 1990s. Today the plant mainly produces chassis without superstructures. On the one hand, undercarriages are built for heavy automobile cranes, on the other hand vehicles for special bodies. These models usually have all-wheel drive, are very off-road and have a payload range between 14 and 40 tons. According to its own statement, BAZ is the market leader in this field in Russia. The trucks are sold to both the military and civil customers, e.g. B. the oil industry, sold. The Russian military in particular presents itself as a good customer, as in the course of the modernization of the armed forces, older military trucks from Belarusian production are being decommissioned and local makes are preferred. The current vehicles are mainly used as transport and launch vehicles for rockets or base vehicles for radar antennas.
The current range of the manufacturer includes:

Crane undercarriage

  • KSch-8973 for 100-ton mobile cranes
  • BAZ-8027 for 32-ton mobile cranes

Off-road trucks

  • BAZ-64031 (8 × 8) up to 24 tons gross vehicle weight
  • BAZ-6403 (8 × 8) tractor unit with a gross vehicle weight of up to 90 tons
  • BAZ-64022 (6 × 6) tractor unit up to 50.6 tons permissible total weight of the tractor unit
  • BAZ-69099 (12 × 12) up to 64.3 tons gross vehicle weight
  • BAZ-69096 (10 × 8) up to 54.3 tons gross vehicle weight
  • BAZ-690902 (8 × 8) up to 39 tons gross vehicle weight
  • BAZ-6909.8 (8 × 8) up to 42 tons gross vehicle weight
  • BAZ-69095 (6 × 6) up to 30 tons gross vehicle weight

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