Malyshev Factory

heavy equipment and defense manufacturer in Kharkiv, Ukraine

Artilleriyskiy Tyagach Lyogkiy, or AT-L (, meaning light artillery tractor) was a Soviet Cold War era artillery tractor. The vehicle has the same cab as the ZIS-150 and ZIL-164 trucks, but has a different front end and grille similar to that of the GAZ-51 truck. ==History== The light artillery tractor AT-L was created in 1947 by the design bureau of the Kharkiv Tractor Plant. Due to the insufficient power of the only suitable diesel engine, it was necessary — for the first time in Soviet practice — to resort to a more efficient but expensive and maintenance-demanding planetary transmission wi