Soviet BA-64 armored car with soldiers-infantrymen of the Red Army. In the field, an armored car was dismantled and an 14.5 mm PTRD anti-tank rifle was installed. The Great Patriotic War of the Russian Nation.
Eastern Front of the Weharmacht during World War II in Soviet Russia.
The development of the BA-64 armored vehicle project began at the design bureau of the Gorky Automobile Plant in the late autumn of 1941, and on March 3, 1942, a prototype was already demonstrated in the Kremlin. The armored car was created on the basis of the GAZ-64 passenger car. The weight of the armored car exceeded 2.3 tons. The armored car was equipped with a 50 hp engine and a maximum highway speed of 80 km/h. The tires of the armored car are bulletproof. The crew of the BA-64 consisted of two people, a commander and a driver. The body of the armored car is made of welded armor plates with a thickness of eight to thirteen millimeters. A 7.62 mm DT machine gun was installed in the octagonal turret.
Place of photo: Stalino (Donetsk), Ukraine, USSR
Time when the photo was taken: November 1943