Support Equipment

AShT-4310 topographic command and staff vehicle

Also known as
  • AShT-4310
  • AShTTs-4310
  • AШT-4310
  • АШТ-4310
  • АШТЦ-4310
  • Avtomobil AShTTs-4310

The AShT-4310 is a Russian topographic command and staff vehicle used to store, check, analyze, and evaluate terrain information for military mapping and staff work. A surviving Russian product listing describes the closely rendered AShTTs-4310 configuration as a shelter-body system on a KamAZ-43114 chassis with automated workstations, map storage, life-support equipment, and external or generator power.

Role in Conflicts

Profile / Specs

Profile

Origin
Russia
Type
Topographic command and staff vehicle
Service note
Late Soviet and Russian service lineage; documented in the 2014 Russia-Ukraine War
Designer
106 Experimental Optical-Mechanical Plant
Produced
Not publicly established in cited sources

Specifications

Role
Topographic information storage, checking, analysis, and terrain-evaluation support
Vehicle base
K-4310D van body on KamAZ-43114 chassis
Workstations
Automated workstations ARM1 and ARM2
Map and document storage
Racks for topographic maps plus cabinets for accessories and equipment
Installed equipment
SMP-2 light-table workspace, OPM-2 optical monocular pantograph, and SI-2 measuring stereoscope
Power
AD6 generator set or external 380/220 V, 50 Hz three-phase supply
Life support
Ventilation, air conditioning, heating, lighting, blackout lighting, and filter-ventilation equipment
Topographic Support Layout

The AShTTs-4310 listing describes a shelter-body vehicle for analog terrain media, such as maps and imagery, and digital terrain information carried on CD media. The vehicle body carries automated workstations, map racks, storage cabinets, working tables, a light-table workspace, and optical viewing or stereoscopic measuring equipment.

Vehicle base

K-4310D van body on a KamAZ-43114 truck chassis.

Power supply

AD6 generator set or an external 380/220 V, 50 Hz three-phase supply.

Crew environment

Ventilation, air conditioning, heating, general and local lighting, blackout lighting, and filter-ventilation protection are listed for the shelter.

Variants

Public sources use both AShT-4310 and AShTTs-4310 spellings for the same topographic vehicle family; the catalog keeps the Oryx/WarSpotting conflict-use spelling as the primary title and records the Russian product-listing spelling as an alias.

VariantConfigurationDesignation notes
AShTTs-4310Topographic information vehicle spelling in Russian product listings

The product listing describes AShTTs-4310 as a vehicle for analog and digital terrain-information work, mounted in a K-4310D van body on a KamAZ-43114 chassis.

Sources: AShTTs-4310 Product Listing

Timeline

AShT-4310 topographic command and staff vehicle Key Events

  1. AShTTs-4310 listing created

    Bizorg's service information records the AShTTs-4310 product listing as created on 30 August 2013 and last modified on 15 November 2013.

    Sources: AShTTs-4310 Product Listing

  2. Destroyed Russian AShT-4310 documented

    Oryx and WarSpotting list a Russian AShT-4310 among documented command-and-communications losses from the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

    Sources: Oryx Russian Equipment Losses, WarSpotting Russia Loss Search

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