Chechnya is the first to buy the new Ahmat Z-STS armored vehicle of Remdiesel, Chief Designer Igor Zarakhovich told TASS.
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov was the first to buy the vehicle called Ahmat after his father. He said: “Ahmat is a maneuverable vehicle that rapidly moves in city conditions with maximum safety for the personnel”.
Remdiesel began to produce Ahmat Z-STS 10-seat armored vehicle in March. It has the same protection as Typhoon and 6×6 wheel arrangement. It can operate in temperatures of minus 50 to plus 50 degrees Centigrade and 4,500 meters high in the mountains. The vehicle can be airlifted by Il-76, An-124 aircraft and transported by rail.
Z-STS Ahmat is built on the 6×6 chassis of a KamAZ-5350. Some design elements were probably borrowed from serial armored vehicles. The level of protection of the case is declared as “very high”, without disclosing specific indicators. No specific mine protection is reported but the harsh Ukraine war experience enables to assume that there is one, as the vehicle height makes it look like an MRAP.