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terminator wrote: ↑Wed Jan 18, 2023 4:10 pm And the M29 Weasel ?


M29 Weasel.jpg

Birgeria wrote: ↑Thu Jan 19, 2023 2:37 pm Still armored cars. This time we move to Russia to have its first armored car: D-8. Which also support the Republic Spain's army and was captured by Finnish Army during the winter war.

Birgeria wrote: ↑Thu Jan 19, 2023 12:07 am Hi Terminator

I have both. Here are the Weasel and M5 of the US version, and the M5 for the Russia version. Enjoy!

terminator wrote: ↑Thu Jan 19, 2023 4:43 pm

Birgeria wrote: ↑Thu Jan 19, 2023 12:07 am Hi Terminator

I have both. Here are the Weasel and M5 of the US version, and the M5 for the Russia version. Enjoy!

Thanks, there are so many posts in this topic that we get lost and more the search engine finds nothing

Birgeria wrote: ↑Fri Jan 20, 2023 12:33 am I just got this one ready. The Russian FAI light armored car. It's performance is a little inferior than the BA-20.

Service and Combat Application

FAI and BT-5 on Khalkhin-Gol captured by the Japanese as trophies!
FAI and BT-5 at Khalkhin-Gol. 1939
A total of 697 FAI and FAI-M armored vehicles were built during serial production, which made them the second largest (after BA-20) machine-gun armored vehicle of the Red Army in pre-war times. FAI and FAI-M armoured cars were used in the battles: first against the Basmachi in Central Asia (OGPU units, 4 lost), in the battles of Lake Hasan and on the river Khalkhin-Gol[13] where 14 vehicles were lost[14], in the Spanish Civil War, where 20 vehicles were supplied[15], in the Winter War (2 lost FAI)[16] and in WWII. FAI and FAI-M were used until 1942, on the Soviet-German front until April 1942,[17] and by August 20, 1942, the Trans-Baikal Front had 10 FAI and FAI-M

In 1934-35, 30 FAI were received by NKVD troops.

In 1934 22 were delivered to Mongolia, and in 1936 another 15 machines. One FAI was lost on March 31, 1936 in a battle with the Japanese-Manchuers on the border during a border incident. In July, 1941. 1 machine was in the 5th cavalry division, 11 in the 7th and 8th cavalry divisions, and 13 in the armored brigade.

In the 5th separate battalion of armored railroad cars from 1936 there were 9 reconnaissance armored cars-cars, which were reworked armored cars FAI on the railway. By August 9, 1945 (beginning of the Soviet-Japanese War) were replaced by BA-20žd.

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Birgeria wrote: ↑Sat Jan 21, 2023 3:02 pm Happy Lunar New Year PZC fans!
Today I have the last Red Army armored car I made. Very rare BA-11 heavy armored car. It was designed to replace the BA-10. But this new one didn't seem so good and only produced a few dozen.

Exotic automobile and tractor vehicles of the Red Army
In addition to tens of thousands of ordinary trucks the trophies of Wehrmacht in the early period of the Great Patriotic War were some examples of exotic, especially from today's perspective, autotractor machinery. Evidence of this, and often the rarest images of examples of equipment were, of course, photos from German albums.

Tractors SG-65 with gas generator set. For those who did not know, vehicles equipped with gas generators could run on firewood, coal, peat, cones and various combustible garbage.

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