BTR-40

Back in World War II, the USSR planned to develop an armored personnel carrier, but at that time the USSR did not have a suitable off-road chassis in its hands, and the situation opened up after World War II, the chassis problem was solved by the appearance of the GAZ-63 4 × 4 truck, on the basis of which the GAZ Automobile Plant developed the first mass-produced armored personnel carrier BTR-40 in the USSR.Development began in 1947 with reference to the design of the BA-64 wheeled armored vehicle, the prototype was named the BTR-141, and the original design was the same as the BA-64 armored car, with multi-faceted inclined armor plates to provide protection, perhaps because the inclined design affected the space of the troop carrier, and the final production version changed the sides of the troop carrier compartment to vertical armor plates.The BTR-40 is powered by a GAZ-40 6-cylinder engine, which can output 80 horsepower, which is stronger than the in-line 6-cylinder engine of the GAZ-63, but it is still not good for an armored personnel carrier with a combat weight of 5.3 tons, its maximum road speed is only 80 km / h, fortunately, the cross-country performance is not bad, and it can fully keep up with the speed of advance of the armored forces.

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