Tatra 810

The Tatra 810, written T 810 and called Tactic, is a medium truck made by the Czech company Tatra, which replaced the Praga V3S that served in the Czech army until 2008. Unlike other Tatra trucks it does not use the classic air-cooled Tatra engine or the Tatra backbone chassis with swinging half-axles, but a conventional frame, and it is intended mainly for difficult terrain. It grew out of the ROSS R210 project of the Roudnice foundries, whose army contract was cancelled in 1998 and which went bankrupt; Tatra bought the documentation and rights in 2002 to enter the market for medium trucks of 3.5 to 12 tons, and the Czech government approved the army purchase in 2005. A civilian version, the T 810-C, appeared in 2010, and in 2017 a Tatra 810 4x4 set a record by climbing and descending a 7.5 metre obstacle at 146 percent. A modernised 810 M was introduced in 2025. Operators include the armies of the Czech Republic, Saudi Arabia and the UAE.