On 24 November, 2008, the Ukrainian Minister of Defence took a decision to accept for service with the Ukrainian Army the Atlet armoured repair and recovery vehicle (ARRV) developed by the State Enterprise Kharkiv Morozov Machine Building Design Bureau.

This ARRV is intended to carry out the following missions: recover and tow a disabled tank, self-propelled artillery system, and other similar vehicles; repair the vehicles; and carry out welding and excavation work. The vehicle is fitted with towing devices, winches, crane, dozer blade, load platform as well as a full range of tools and contrivances to carry out repairs of armoured vehicles. The total weight of the ARRV is 46 tons, and it has a crew of three. The armament consists of a 12.7 mm machine gun that can ba laid and fired from within the vehicle under complete armour protection.

KMDB
01.12.2008