GAZ-5903V Vetluga

The GAZ-5903V Vetluga is a Russian heavy firefighting vehicle from GAZ Group, built as a modified BTR-70 amphibious armoured personnel carrier and derived from the GAZ-59037. Its distinctive feature is a large vertically movable turret carrying 11 tubes filled with extinguishing powder, which is thrown out by controlled blasts of air, a method called pulsed or impulse firefighting. The vehicle carries enough powder to fire every tube twice and a second set of reloads in separate cases. It is meant for large, high-risk industrial fires and for situations with a grave risk of explosion. The listed specifications give an unloaded weight of 13,000 kg, a KamAZ-7403 diesel engine, 8x8 drive, 80 km/h on the road and 9 km/h afloat, with a crew of two and filtered ventilation.