MAZ-7917

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Topol vehicle in Moscow on Tverskaya Street, 2008 Moscow Victory Parade rehearsal, May 5
Topol vehicle in Moscow on Tverskaya Street, 2008 Moscow Victory Parade rehearsal, May 5

MAZ-7912/MAZ-7917 (Russian: МАЗ-7912/МАЗ-7917) is a Soviet/Russian army vehicle, an 14x12 artillery truck designed and developed by MAZ, Minsk automobile plant, Belarus.

It was developed primary for the use as a Topol ICBM RT-2PM (15Zh58) launcher.

7912 was constructively similar to MAZ-547А except for its 7 (instead of 6) axles with one dead axle.

In the middle of 1980th 7912 was upgraded to 7917 - its length increased by 1 m (3.3 ft) and the crew cabins made similar to MAZ-7916.

At present the 8-axels variant is used with Topol M, Topol's replacement.

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