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On our national unity day the president of the Russian Federation Dmitriy Medvedev and the prime-minister Vladimir Putin visited Gorkiy automobile plant and had a look at our new home-grown technologies used for wheeled armored vehicles production. LLC “Voenno-Promyshlennaya Kompaniya” demonstrated new vehicles of “Tiger” armored vehicles family, special SPM-3 “Medved” police car and BTR-82A armored carrier. Within the “Tiger” line Tiger 6a enhanced armored vehicle and MK-BLA-01 mobile complex equipped with pilotless aircrafts were presented as well. By the way, Tiger 6a was designed by and at the initiative of LLC “VPK” jointly with LLC “OKB “Tekhnika”. The vehicle has four-doors armored body which provides 6a range ballistic protection in compliance with GOST standard P 50963-96. The mine protection level also increased as a result of implementation of extra armor plates at the bottom of the vehicle and energy-attenuating seats for a crew with no fixture to the floor. It’s obvious that the designers of this Tiger model wanted to demonstrate that the protection level of this model is at least equal to the similar models made abroad purportedly IVECO LMV armored vehicle widely known as “Lynx”. It is considered to be certainly decided that those”Lynx” armored cars will be supplied to the Russian army. The first persons of the state were pleased with the demonstration so they couldn’t help driving the provided vehicles themselves and chose SPM-3 “Medved” car for that purpose. Probably, they liked it more than Tiger considering the animal symbols chosen by the Russian governing party.