CZK - AV-15 (automobil vyprošťovací)

AV-15 crane and rescue vehicle


Special vehicle AV-15 is designed for:
- release and removal of damaged or stuck belt and wheeled military equipment
- performance of crane work with loads with a maximum weight of 15 t in field companies or in military repair facilities
- carrying out the necessary landscaping and earthworks with a bulldozer blade


The vehicle replaced the obsolete crane tanks in the Czechoslovak Army JT-34 and military mobile cranes AV-8 produced in the 60's and 70's.
The first development work began in 1972 on the basis of a request from the tank and automobile administration of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. The first part of the development work dealt with the construction based on the chassis TATRA 813, after the transition of TATRA production to the type T-815 in Martin reconstructed the AV-15 to the chassis T-815. The development was completed in 1979. The original manufacturer was to be ZTS n.p. Martin. The product was to cover in a suitable way a certain shortfall in production and employment caused by the transition of tank production T-55A to tanks T-72. Finally, production was assigned to ZTS n.p. Košice, which specialized in special-purpose cars. The crane was manufactured in VSS Košice. The verification series was produced in 1983 and from 1984 serial production began. The product was delivered to ČSLA and exported to the GDR and India. By 1989, 209 AV-15 cars had been produced.




Source: MOT 9/2000

The AV-15 rescue truck is operated by a commander (trained as a rescue crane operator and radio operator) and a driver (trained as a truck driver, binder, welder and bulldozer). The vehicle is built on a chassis T-815 VP13 32 265 8x8.1R weighing 10,850 kg.



Users: Czechoslovakia (Czech Republic/Slovak Republic, between 1990 and 1991, 52 vehicles were produced for Czechoslovakia), GDR, India (deliveries to India were to take place in 1991-2003, 2004 and 2007 and were to include 349 vehicles)



Technical-tactical data
Dimensions:
- length (rear boom): 12,300 mm
- height: 3,360 mm
- width including bulldozer blade: 2 570 mm
- clear height: 320 mm


Approach angle:
- front: 18 °
- rear: 29 °


Wheelbase: 1650 mm - 2870 mm - 1 450 mm
Wheelbase:
- front: 1,996 mm
- rear: 1 940 mm


Standby weight: 30,000 kg
Maximum trailer trailer weight:
- on the road: 65 000 kg
- in the field: 15 000 kg


Top speed: 70 km/h
Maximum speed when towing the articulated bar after communication with weight:
- up to 16 000 kg: 60 km/h
- up to 22 000 kg: 30 km/h
Maximum speed when towing the equipment with a fixed bar on roads weighing up to 30,000 kg: 50 km/h
Top speed of a vehicle with a trailer weighing up to 65,000 kg: 50 km/h


Maximum load when moving equipment on the crane jib: 6,500 kg
- maximum speed at this load capacity on the road: 10 km/h
- maximum speed at this load capacity in the field: 5 km/h


Unloading the crane
Smallest: 2 m
Biggest
- with basic boom: 7.7 m
- with extension: 11.4 m
Crane working range: 360 °


Crane capacity
- with basic boom when unloading 3 m on supports: 15,000 kg
- with extension at the largest landing on supports: 4 000 kg


Main winch
- with vertical axis of rotation - on the bearing of the crane rotation
- tensile force in direct tension: 147 kN
- tensile force over two pulleys: 442 kN
- working length of the rope: 150 m


Auxiliary winch
- rope length: 320 m


Bulldozer: BZ 815


Permitted lateral inclination of the vehicle: 20 °
Output: 360 mm
Crossing: 1,600 mm
Wading capacity: 1,300 mm

Unloading diagram.

AV-15 (VPZ 402 ?? - ??) from 156. rescue battalion, summer 2004.

One of the first manufactured (prototype?) AV-15 (VPZ unknown), June 1985.

AV-15 (VPZ 413 42-71) from armament 156. rescue battalion (?), summer 2004.

AV-15 (VPZ 383 03-30) of the Slovak Army rescues a crashed field kitchenPOKA 3/1.

AV-15 from German People's Army, late 1980s.

And the "rescuer" from Technical Cash at Czechoslovakia. air force

AV-15 (VPZ 392 56-??) from the armament of one of the rescue battalions 15th Engineer Rescue Brigade.

AV-15 (VPZ 390 48-44) from the armament of 152nd Rescue Battalion (?), photographed at the event Engineering Day, Military Technical Museum, Lešany, 2006.

Source: private archive

AV-15 (VPZ 360 40-83) from 156th Rescue Battalion, Cihelna 2007, 18.8.2007

AV-15 (VPZ 402 06-1?) of Pardubice firefighters (Pardubice Airport Authority) at the LKPD airport.
Pardubice, 31.5.2008

Tatra 815 AV15 ve službách hasičů Českých drah v Ústí nad Labem.
Zdroj: soukromý archiv

Tatra-815 AV 15 Hasičů ČD
Zdroj: soukromý archiv

AV-15

Source: private archive

AV-15 (VPZ 403 45-39) from THZS, 246th Combat Logistics Support Battalion, 24th Transport Air Base, Prague - Kbely, October 2009.

AV-15 (VPZ 360 71-76) od Vyprošťovací a odsunové roty 142. praporu oprav, 14. brigáda logistické podpory, červen 2009.

AV-15 (SPZ 4T9 2106) from the Rescue Company Zbiroh Rescue Unit HZS CR (former 157th Rescue Battalion) captured in the village Frýdlant when clearing the consequences of floods, 8.8.2010.

Vyprošťovací automobil AV-15 upravený na samohybné dělo za pomoci improvizované lafetace protiletadlového kanonu KS-19 ráže 100 mm, 241. samostatná brigáda územní obrany, rusko-ukrajinská válka, přibližně 10. října 2023.

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I would like to point out that the production of AV-15 superstructure superstructures takes place in VSS Košice at irregular intervals and in various ways so far. We prefer not to mention the so-called quality of production.