"Tigr" - a Russian high-mobility vehicle GAZ-2330, manufactured by one of the Military Industrial Company LLC (GAZ

GAZ

GAZ or Gorkovsky Avtomobilny Zavod , translated as Gorky Automobile Plant , started in 1932 as NAZ, a cooperation between Ford and the Soviet Union. It is one of the largest companies in the Russian automotive industry....

 Group division) manufacturing plants ARZAMAS Machinery Plant AMZ in Russia. The plant also produces BTR

Bronetransporter

A Bronyetransportyor or BTR , literally "armoured transporter" is any of a series of Soviet or post-Soviet military armoured personnel carriers, made for transporting Bronies....

 Russian APC

Armoured personnel carrier

An armoured personnel carrier is an armoured fighting vehicle designed to transport infantry to the battlefield.APCs are usually armed with only a machine gun although variants carry recoilless rifles, anti-tank guided missiles , or mortars...

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Variants

• GAZ-233034 SPM-1/GAZ-233036 SPM-2 - "Special police vehicle" armoured police version
• GAZ-2975
  GAZ-2975
  The GAZ-2975 "Tigr" is a Russian high-mobility multipurpose military vehicle, manufactured by Military Industrial Company LLC . It is the military version of the GAZ-2330 "Tigr". It is equipped with a powerful diesel, turbocharged, air-cooled engine and five-speed manual transmission...
  
   "Tigr" - armoured military version
• GAZ-29651 "Karatel" - light-weight and more inexpensive version of GAZ-2975
• GAZ-3937
  GAZ-3937
  GAZ-3937 "Vodnik" is a Russian high-mobility multipurpose military vehicle manufactured by GAZ. It is a modification of civil GAZ-2330 "Tigr". Its name comes from the Russian "водник" - a person employed in water transport, or can have a meaning of some object related to water...
  
   "Vodnik" - military amphibious vehicle
  Amphibious vehicle
  An amphibious vehicle , is a vehicle or craft, that is a means of transport, viable on land as well as on water – just like an amphibian....
  
  
• R-145BMA - command vehicle based on GAZ-233036 SPM-2 vehicle
• Abaim-Abanat - special police assault vehicle based on GAZ-233034 SPM-1 vehicle
• VPK-233114 Tigr-M - upgraded version with new engine, armoured engine jacket and NBC protection system.

Operators

Russia's state arms exporter Rosoboronexport has stated that it is holding talks with Brazil on setting up a joint venture for manufacturing light-armour police vehicles.Construction of licensed production and assembly facilities, manufacturing certain armoured and motor vehicles and small arms, is evolving into one of the crucial lines of military technical cooperation between Russia and Latin American countries.

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