‘The Russians are slow to harness, but they drive fast,’ Germany’s first Chancellor, Bismarck, said of us. Indeed, while the Germans made extensive use of armoured personnel carriers from the very beginning of the Second World War…
BRDM-1 Experience gained from using the BTR-40 for battlefield reconnaissance demonstrated to the Soviet military that such a specialised role required a purpose-built armoured reconnaissance and patrol vehicle (BRDM). It was intended to…
AT-P The AT-P (semi-armoured artillery tractor) was produced from 1954 to 1962. It was designed as a fast, light front-line tractor similar to the pre-war T-20 Komsomolets. But whereas…
T-55MV Immediately after the war, the T-54, armed with a 100 mm gun, was developed from the T-44 medium tank. The new tank became a kind of post-war equivalent in terms of popularity…
45 mm Anti-Tank Gun M1937 Few people know that the famous Soviet ‘forty-five’ was developed from the equally well-known German 37 mm anti-tank gun, which…
It should be noted that the Red Army entered the Great Patriotic War with virtually no self-propelled artillery. By contrast, Hitler’s Wehrmacht had several types of self-propelled artillery at its disposal…
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