valuation of the technical excellence of a new protected ambulance of a tactical level in comparison with armored medical vehicles of foreign manufacturers

The experience of wars and armed conflicts shows that military medicine must be equipped with modern equipment for the search for, the speedy removal from the battlefield and the evacuation of the wounded and sick, as well as for the deployment of mobile medical stations. The tactical and technical characteristics of the protected ambulance of domestic production «Medical transporter ZSA-T» (for searching, collecting and removing the wounded from the battlefield and centers of mass sanitary losses) are analyzed, they are compared with similar armored medical vehicles of foreign manufacturers and indicators of the technical level are determined the perfection of all samples. It has been established that, according to the level of technical perfection, 3 samples, including ZSA-T, can be attributed to modern ones. The ZSA-T is not inferior to the best models of armored medical vehicles of foreign manufacturers in terms of its main parameters and makes it possible to ensure the speedy movement of the wounded from the battlefield to the subsequent stages of medical evacuation with a high level of protection against firearms and mines.