MAZ-543

The MAZ-543, later also designated MAZ-7310 and nicknamed Uragan, meaning Hurricane, is a Soviet 8x8 heavy artillery truck designed and developed by the Minsk Automobile Plant in what is now Belarus. It was designed in the 1960s and shown on 7 November 1965 in the Red Square military parade as part of the Scud B missile system. It is powered by a 38.9 litre D12A-525 tank diesel producing around 525 horsepower and reaches about 60 kilometres per hour on the road. Variants include the 1967 MAZ-543A with extra carrying capacity, the MAZ-543M for the BM-30 Smerch rocket launcher, the MAZ-543P for the Temp-S system and the six-axle MAZ-547, the transporter erector launcher for the RSD-10 Pioneer. A version could work with a four-wheel-drive trailer as an oil survey road train in Siberia, and China fielded its own version in 1986 as the WS2400.