The birth of Optimus Prime!
WETL-wheeled evacuation tractor light. His task is to remove the damaged equipment from the battlefield. The battle may still go on, the shelling may still go on, bullets-debris are flying, but the equipment needs to be evacuated! And every extra square millimeter of the protected driver's cabin is not only a chance to save him, but also, and also the best sedative for this driver.
A few technical points - it is closed by a "sandwich" that was developed by us from two layers of special steel and special bulletproof rubber. During the tests, the "sandwich" held fragments of an 82 mm mine when it burst at a distance of several meters. The radiator is protected by a "herringbone" louver that also made of special steel.
These are costs. Expenses are unplanned and unsystematic. The costs are tangible. There are a dozen such machines in this division.
But the protection of the tow truck driver has no "cost".