Silant, an all-wheel drive truck and the only product manufactured by the now defunct Russian company ''Avtospetsoborudovanie'' (Ru:Автоспецоборудование) in

Velikiy Novgorod Veliky Novgorod ( rus, links=no, Великий Новгород, t=Great Newtown, p=vʲɪˈlʲikʲɪj ˈnovɡərət), also known as just Novgorod (), is the largest city and administrative centre of Novgorod Oblast, Russia. It is one of the ...

Novgorod Oblast Novgorod Oblast (russian: Новгоро́дская о́бласть, ''Novgorodskaya oblast'') is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the city of Veliky Novgorod. Some of the oldest Russian cities, includi ...

, but now is its own company which manufactures two different 4x4 vehicles.

History

The Silant truck was originally developed by the

National Automotive Institute The Central Scientific Research Automobile and Automotive Engines Institute, abbreviated as NAMI (russian: link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Language, Государственный научный центр Российской Фе� ...

(NAMI) as the 1337/1338/2338. In 2011, 150 vehicles were produced, the plant is designed for an annual production of up to 5,000 units.

Variants

Silant vehicles are manufactured in many variants: *

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, * "vahtovka"

Combination bus A combination bus, also called a truck bus or shift bus, is a purpose-built truck with a "passenger container" fulfilling the role of a bus. Such vehicles used to be common in developing countries. Alternative combination buses can be a passen ...

, * ambulance, * volunteer fire brigade vehicle, * forest patrol vehicle, * mobile police station, * "Охотник-I" (Hunter-I) - Expeditionary car for forestry and hunting camps, * "Охотник-II (Hunter-II), * "vahtovka vodokachalnaya" (for the needs of the utility, MOE, KMG EP polivomoyka) * refrigerator (freezervehicle) * Street cleaner with KMG electric water gun, * three-directional tipper, * wrecker/tow truck (WIPO lift-16-01 "

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"), * crane (cranes by Fassi (Italy) with 1-2 tons carrying capacity), * Silant ASO 6.5 «tractor» EP (for agriculture, forestry and public utilities with low pressure tires).

Description

All Silants have four-wheel drive, three-person air-conditioned cabs, a Perkins 1103S-33t three-cylinder turbo diesel, 5-speed manual transmission,

power take-off A power take-off or power takeoff (PTO) is one of several methods for taking power from a power source, such as a running engine, and transmitting it to an application such as an attached implement or separate machine. Most commonly, it is a s ...

0 axles from the

GAZ-3308 The GAZ-3308 "Sadko" (russian: Садко) is a Russian-built, 2.5-ton, 4-wheel-drive cargo truck. The Sadko is produced by the Gorky Automobile Plant (GAZ). It is named after Sadko, a protagonist in many '' bylinas'' of the Novgorod cycle. Sa ...

with locking differentials.

6X6 Model

The NAMI-3333 is a 6x6 derivative equipped with VMTZ D-130T engine and 4-speed gearbox.

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