Kamaz

Kamaz
Faction	Russian Armed Forces
Type	Utility Truck
Seats	All variants: 3 seats: 1× Driver 2× Cab Passengers Transport variants: 13 seats: 11× Passengers
Item capacity	Max: 50× Weapons 200× Magazines 8× Backpacks
Top speed	76 km/h
Fuel capacity	100 fuel units
Primary armament	None
Secondary armament	None
Variants	Standard, Open, Repair, Ammunition, Fuel, Supply, Salvage
Games

The Kamaz (alternately called the Utility Truck) is a family of logistics trucks used exclusively by the Russian Armed Forces in ArmA 2.

Overview

• Roles:
  • Troop transport
  • Ground vehicle repair
  • Refuelling
  • Vehicle munitions rearmament

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Design

The Kamaz is a family of Russian-made 6x6 light utility trucks. It uses a conventional layout with a front-mounted engine and an all-metal forward control cab.

Features
There are a total of six more configurations of the Kamaz aside from the baseline troop transport variant. These include a fuel tanker, ammunition transport, field repair vehicle, and a salvager/supply carrier variant.

Mobility
Compared to older trucks like the Ural and V3S, it is faster than both by a mere 1 km/h. When matched up against newer Western-made trucks, the Kamaz is completely outmatched and is slower than both its American and Czech-made counterparts by almost ~ 20 km/h.

Acceleration-wise, it takes longer for the Kamaz to attain its top speed of 76 km/h. However, when it comes to handling the Kamaz is not too different from the MTVR/T810 and still requires plenty of clearance when making sharp turns (particularly at high speeds).

Crew Capacity
Regardless of variant, the Kamaz always has a capacity of three seats for a crew that consists of a driver and two passengers who sit in the cab alongside the driver.

Variants

Transport

• Utility Truck
• Utility Truck (Open)

Baseline variant. Can transport up to eleven passengers on its rear flatbed. The rear section is covered with a tarpaulin which can hide troops from view (note that the tarpaulin does not provide ballistic protection).

Identical to the baseline transport variant but lacks the tarpaulin cover. Transports the same number of passengers.

Logistics

• Utility Truck (Repair)
• Utility Truck (Ammunition)
• Utility Truck (Fuel)
• Utility Truck (Supply)*
• Utility Truck (Salvage)*

Carries spare parts, tools, and additional components that can repair nearby land vehicles and grounded aircraft. Has only three seats for the driver and a cab passenger.

Visually identical to the Repair variant, but the rear container stores ammunition and ordnance instead. It can rearm nearby land vehicles and grounded aircraft. Contains the same number of seats as the Repair variant.

Has a large fuel tanker attached to the rear flatbed section. It can refuel nearby land vehicles and grounded aircraft. Contains the same number of seats as the Repair variant.

Visually identical to the Ammunition variant. It will automatically be dispatched from the closest forward base to a nearby town to increase its "supply" value.

Visually identical to the Repair variant but cannot actually repair ground vehicles or aircraft. It will automatically be dispatched from the closest forward base to disassemble destroyed vehicle wrecks on the battlefield.

(*) These variants are completely non-functional in normal gameplay and only work in Capture The Island (CTI) scenarios created with the Warfare module.

Protection

All variants of the Kamaz have base armour values of 32.

Body

Kamaz hulls can survive 32 points of damage.

Engine

Their engines are only capable of withstanding 12.8 points of damage. Only 40% of damage on this component is shared with the vehicle's main "health" pool.

A damaged engine will prevent the vehicle from being able to attain their top speeds.

Fuel tank

The fuel tanks (not the cistern on Fuel variants) can incur up to 44.8 points of damage before failing. At least 50% of damage on the tanks will be transferred onto the vehicle's main "health" pool.

A damaged tank will cause the vehicle to gradually lose fuel over time.

Wheels

The tyres on all variants can only take 12.8 points of damage before bursting. Only 30% of damage is shared with the vehicle's main "health" pool.

Trivia

• The in-game Kamaz/Utility Truck is based on the "KamAZ-4310" family of 6x6 trucks used by the Russian military in reality.
• Prior to the latest Steam version patches (as part of the CorePatch updates), the HUD icons for the Ammunition and baseline Covered variants incorrectly used the same icon as the Open variant.
• Static environment prop versions of the truck appear in several levels throughout Tactics' campaigns. However, they are not actually featured as driveable vehicles and are completely indestructible.

Gallery

Uncovered transporter variant in Tactics.

External links

• Wikipedia: KamAZ-4310

See also

Vehicles of comparable role and configuration

• MTVR (USMC/U.S. Army counterpart)
• T810 (ACR counterpart, ArmA 2: ACR only)
• Ural (CDF/ChDKZ/Alternate Takistani Army counterpart)
• V3S (NAPA/Takistani Army counterpart)
• Zamak (AAF/Light CSAT successor, ArmA 3 only)