For Minsk Wheel Tractor Plant, the year 1999 was, if not jubilant, at least marked by good round figures and events worthy to be remembered. In March, there was the 40th anniversary of the batch manufacturing of wheel tractors; in July, the 45th anniversary of the Special Design Bureau No. 1 founded at Minsk Automobile Plant to become the origin for the future Minsk Wheel Tractor Plant.
In March 1999, 40 years after assembling the first wheel tractor, the 20,000th vehicle left the plant’s conveyor. It’s noteworthy that this was the MZKT-543 wheel tractor; the first vehicle of this type was assembled as far back as in 1962.
With the modification of the Pioner-UTTH (“Pioneer”) missile system (NATO reporting name is SS-20 mod.1 Saber), the MAZ-547V was made
Fundamentally new design from Volat designers intended to carry the Tor surface-to-air missile system
In 1970, the work was launched in SKB-1 under the general supervision by B.L. Shaposhnik for the design of the most extensive top-secret third generation of Oplot (“Stronghold”) intended to be used to carry the especially strong weapons and to replace two series, MAZ-537 and MAZ-543
The MAZ-529V single-axle tractor, designed for civil purposes, was the first vehicle launched in batch production in 1958
Foundation of SKB-1 Special Design Bureau for heavy wheel artillery tractors and related engines with the testing facilities.
Tractor-road MZKT-74135 - winner of the tender in the United Arab Emirates.
MWTP OJSC overpassed the landmark: 20,000 items of products made!
The MAZ-79221 eight-axle all-wheel-drive wheel chassis is designed to carry the Topol-M missile system’s independent launching unit, related systems and special equipment
The first four-axle vehicle was designed with the axle configuration 8x8, MAZ-535.
MAZ-7907 is the pilot chassis made by Minsk Automobile Plant for the 15P157 launcher of the 15P162 Tselina-2 (“Virgin Land 2”) ground-based mobile missile system with the RT-23 UTTH (15Zh62) intercontinental ballistic missile. This is the only vehicle in the world provided with 24 driving wheels including 16 steerable wheels energised from the generator driven by the tank gas turbine
The completely new vehicle, MAZ-543, was designed to carry the TEMP missile launcher, and this vehicle, in various modifications, is still in batch production!
