BA-64
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The BA-64 was a Soviet four-wheeled armoured scout car. Built on the chassis of a GAZ-64 or GAZ-67 jeep, it incorporated a hull loosely modeled after that of the Sd.Kfz. 221. The BA-64 was developed between July and November 1941 to replace the BA-20 then in service with armoured car units of the Red Army. Cheap and exceptionally reliable, it would later become the most common Soviet wheeled armoured fighting vehicle to enter service during World War II, with over 9,000 being manufactured before production ended.
BA-64B armoured car in Nizhniy Novgorod Kremlin, Russia.
Early BA-64
BA-64 at the UMMC Museum
BA-64B at the Bundeswehr Military History Museum, Dresden.
BTR-40
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The BTR-40 is a Soviet open-topped, wheeled armoured personnel carrier and reconnaissance vehicle. It is often referred to as the Sorokovka in Soviet service. It was eventually replaced in the APC role by the BTR-152 and in the scout car role by the BRDM-1.
BTR-40 at a public exhibit in Poland, 2008
A Soviet BTR-40 in Budapest during the Hungarian Uprising of 1956
Ex-Egyptian BTR-40 captured by the royalist guerrillas during the North Yemen Civil War
BTR-40B