LuAZ-967
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 A LuAZ-967M in France (2008)
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| LuAZ-967 | |
| Sales designation: | LuAZ-967M |
| Production period: | 1975-1991 |
| Class : | Off-road vehicle |
| Body versions : | Kübelwagen |
| Engines: |
Otto engine : 1.2 liters (29 kW) |
| Length: | 3735 mm |
| Width: | 1712 mm |
| Height: | 1750 mm |
| Wheelbase : | 1800 mm |
| Empty weight : | 950 kg |
The LuAZ-967 ( Russian ЛуАЗ-967 ), in the first few years sometimes also referred to as ZAZ-967 and possibly LuMZ-967, is an amphibious vehicle made by LuAZ , which is used in the Warsaw Pact armies as a "damaged vehicle" and for the transport of Ammunition and light weapons were used.
The first prototypes were built as early as the late 1950s. Series production only began in 1975 under the name LuAZ-967M. The army's name for the vehicle was Transporter perednowo kraja , or TPK for short (Russian транспортер переднего края, or ТПК for short), which stands for Transporter for the front line .
Vehicle history
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After the experience of the Soviet Army in the Korean War (1950-1953), lighter all-terrain vehicles similar to the American jeep were to be developed as a supplement to the heavy GAZ-69s .
Series production was preceded by almost twenty years of development, starting with various prototypes from the NAMI vehicle construction institute . The first to be built in 1957 was the NAMI-032G, which was not yet a secret and whose development there were reports in the Soviet trade press. He received a two-cylinder four-stroke gasoline engine from the Irbitski Motozikletny Sawod , as it was also used in motorcycles from this manufacturer. The two versions NAMI-032M and NAMI-032S followed. Both received a new body that was much more similar to the later production vehicle than that of the first prototype. In the NAMI-032S, the V4 engine MeMZ-967 was used, which was based on the MeMZ-966 from the ZAZ-965A . Even was under the name NAMI-032SK hovercraft built. In January 1961, the project was handed over to the design office of the Ukrainian Zaporisky Avtomobilebudiwny Zavod (ZAZ), where it was given the designation ZAZ-967.
At ZAZ, the vehicle was heavily revised. In addition, parts of the technology were standardized with that of the off-road vehicle ZAZ-969, which was also under development (later built as ZAZ-969 and then as LuAZ-969A ). A double-digit number of prototypes was created in the following years, and major changes to the design were made in 1964 and 1967. At that time a MeMZ-967 engine was installed, which made 30 HP (22 kW) with a displacement of 887 cm³. The ZAZ-967 weighed 920 kg empty and could take 350 kg of cargo.
In 1967 the project was ceded to the Luzki Awtomobilny Sawod without serial production at ZAZ. In this context, the name LuMZ-967 appears, the plant was only renamed in 1966 from Luzki Maschinostroitelny Sawod (LuMZ for short, German Luzker Maschinenbauwerk ) to LuAZ. However, it is not used consistently in the literature. Eleven further prototypes were built at LuAZ: One in 1968, which was tested together with NAMI, five more in 1970 and another five in 1971. Series production was approved a little later and started in 1975. Production ended in 1991. At least 7,900 LuAZ-967M were built.
From the beginning of the 1980s, models with three axles and all-wheel drive were also built and tested; there was never any series production. At least one vehicle of this type has been preserved in a museum.
vehicle description
The “damaged transport vehicle” was designed for use in the “foremost area”. It was airborne and was able to negotiate smaller trenches on its return march using the track bridges it carried.
The folding steering column , windscreen and the retractable seats made it possible to steer the vehicle while lying down, which is particularly advantageous when being shot at. The track bridges attached to the side could be set up as splinter protection.
The driver's seat is in the middle, as the stretchers for the wounded were attached to the side. Alternatively, in addition to other medical equipment, the equipment also included a transport mat for the wounded. By means of the two laterally arranged emergency seats, the more easily wounded could be transported seated instead of being carried. With the standard cable winch (approx. 2 kN pulling force), the wounded could be rescued from the firing area on a tent sheet and pulled towards the vehicle. As the seal against penetrating water was insufficient, the equipment also included a bilge pump with a pump sump in the engine compartment. The speed in the water is about 3 km / h, since the drive is exclusively via the wheels.
Military use
In addition to the LuAZ-967, the Warsaw Pact armies were also equipped with other buoyant vehicles such as the SPW 60 , SPW 70 , SPz BMP-1 and BMP-2 .
Different versions of the LuAZ-967 were introduced in 1978 to the medical battalions of the Mot-Schützen-Divisions of the National People's Army of the GDR. A total of around 250 vehicles were imported.
The vehicle was not equipped with a national emblem in any army, but carried the Red Cross on the front fenders, the windshield and on the right rear of the vehicle. Instead of steel helmets, the drivers wore a tank driver's hood when they were on duty because they were in radio contact with the R 105 radio that was carried.
Model versions
There were different model variants over the long construction and production time of the vehicle.
- ZAZ-967 - This working title was given to the first prototypes that were still being manufactured in the Saporisky Awtomobilebudiwny Zavod .
- LuMZ-967 - Designation for prototypes possibly used briefly in the Lutsk factory from 1967 onwards.
- LuAZ-967 - working title for various prototypes from the Lutsk plant up into the 1970s.
- LuAZ-967M - first and only production version, built from 1975 to 1991. Various (standard) parts of the vehicle were taken over from the production of Moskvich and UAZ .
- LuAZ-972 or LuAZ-1901 "Geolog" - Various three-axle versions of the vehicle built in the 1980s, only prototypes.
In older sources a LuAZ-967A is sometimes listed . Newer works that deal with the topic much more comprehensively do not know this vehicle version. It can be assumed that it was confused with the LuAZ-969 and that there was never a LuAZ-967A.
Technical specifications
For the LuAZ-967M, around 1975.
- Engine: four-cylinder gasoline engine , air-cooled, V4
- Engine type: MeMZ-967A
- Power: 39 HP (29 kW)
- Displacement: 1197 cm³
- Torque: 73.5 Nm
- Top speed: 75 km / h on land, 3 km / h in water
- Tank volume: 34 l
- Drive formula : 4 × 2 or 4 × 4 (permanent front-wheel drive, rear axle can be activated)
- Transmission: mechanical, 4 forward gears
- Drum brakes on all wheels
- Independent wheel suspension on semi-trailing arms (pushed forward) with torsion bar springs
- buoyant for at least 30 minutes in calm waters
- Propulsion in the water through the rotation of the wheels
Dimensions and weights
- Length: 3735 mm
- Width: 1712 mm
- Height: 1750 mm
- Ground clearance: 285 mm
- Wheelbase: 1800 mm
- Front track: 1335 mm
- Rear track: 1330 mm
- Empty weight: 950 kg
- Payload: 400 kg
- Permissible total weight: 1350 kg
- Trailer load: 300 kg
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n S. W. Iones; NS Markow and others: Советские полноприводные. Part 1: Passenger Cars. Boris-Print, Tula 2017, ISBN 978-5-90515-434-8 , various pages.
- ^ Andy Thompson: Cars of the Soviet Union . Haynes Publishing, 2008, ISBN 978-1844254835 , p. 93.
- ↑ Website for the NAMI-032M with images of the vehicle (Russian)
- ↑ Website for the NAMI-032S with images of the vehicle (Russian)
- ↑ a b Roman Nazarow: Русские автомобили. Полная энциклопедия . Eksmo, Moscow 2012, ISBN 978-5-69953-845-4 .
- ↑ a b c d e Article in the Russian automobile magazine КОЛЕСА on the LuAZ-967 and its history (Russian)
- ↑ a b c Driving report for the LuAZ-967 from 2008
- ↑ Website for the vehicle with a short history and photographs (Russian)
- ↑ LM Shugurov: АВТОМОБИЛИ. России и СССР. Second part. Ilbi / Prostreks, Moscow 1994, ISBN 5-87483-006-5 , p 108.
Web links
- Driving report LuAZ 967 - Land unter - Allrad - autobild.de accessed on December 27, 2015
- Fan page