OREANDA-NEWS Russian specialists have developed the ATZ-8 armored tanker for the Armed Forces, which protects the crew and cargo from bullets and shrapnel. Colonel Vladimir Demirov, head of the Rocket Fuel and Fuel Department of the Resource Support Department of the Russian Ministry of Defense, told Izvestia about this.

"As a result of joint work with industrial enterprises, a new protected tanker model was developed — this is the ATZ-8 based on the Ural automobile. It is capable of withstanding direct fire from small arms, as well as saving people and fuel from MLRS fragments," he said, answering a question about the equipment that appeared during his training.