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Today is truly an exciting day for Paramount because we are unveiling to the world our new Mbombay 8 vehicle
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which will be produced here in Kazakhstan as the boris. The local name for the vehicle is the barris
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and the Burris vehicle is the first platform of its type that integrates Western and Soviet technology in a brand new platform
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This vehicle is really a unique vehicle. It's designed as a platform for many, many different turret systems
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for a lot of localization here in Kazakhstan, and it allows us to integrate subsystems from countries all over the world
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Adjacent to me is the Burris 8x8 vehicle. It's an evolution of a product line or in addition to our product line out of the Paramount Group
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Some of the unique aspects of this machine, it enjoys a flat mine blast floor
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versus the conventional V-shaped mine blast vehicle. It is a standard level 4 A and B mineblast protection which is 10 kilograms of T both under the wheel and the hull Due to the fact that the drive line is down the center of the vehicle it also has a different structure or configuration of crew compartment
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You don't have a tandem configuration as with most vehicles. We have a driver and commander one seated behind the other
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In this vehicle, it's more of a conventional SUV-like internal spaces with the driver on their left
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commander on the right, and a complete open architecture of crew compartment. In this particular vehicle, we've been requested to integrate a 57mm turret from Russia
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a turret in a development stage, and we anticipate to perform firing trials on this vehicle
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in the course of the next 12 or 18 months. We want to be in a position where we have production facilities as close to our markets wherever possible
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The defence industry is about localisation. It's about creating jobs, creating ownership for product
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It's about customisation. And that's why we've set up this factory here in Kuzzi
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and why we have other factories around the world. In a very short period of time
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we've built one of the biggest armored vehicle factories in the world, right here in Astana
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This place is remote. Logistics are difficult, but we've managed to achieve
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this in a very short space of time. In terms of the activities that we perform in this factory it a comprehensive activity all fabrication right through to the full assembly of vehicles
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There are three primary stages in this process. First being fabrication, which is your cutting and bending and welding of armoured steel or other
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mild steel items that we add onto the vehicles. The second phase is what we call surface treatment, which relates to the priming and painting
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of any metal fabricated parts, the hull, being the primary element of that
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and the third phase is the assembly. All the vehicles we produce and specialise in
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what we refer to as wheeled, monococt hulled armoured vehicles designed to survive or sustain
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either anti-tank mine blasts or very large ID or roadside bomb blasts
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From this stage we'll attach the vehicle suspension, the insulation, the examples of which I showed you in the painting line
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the electrical system, pneumatic system, and finally the balance of the drive line, the engine, axles etc
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This is the vehicle. From here it progresses to Wash Bay and then exits to perform what we call a factory acceptance test process
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that we assess that the vehicle adheres to a specification. on this company
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It's very important that Karasthan Paramount Engineering is a partner by the partner
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by which are new work and are new technologies and and and the object
