GAZ AA SOVIET SHIELDED TRUCK
Image:
German soldiers resting after the hard fighting in the vicinity of Leningrad, 1941. Behind, a Soviet armored truck in flames model GAZ-AA.
The burning vehicle is a limited variant of the GAZ-AA truck, limited since this model is armored, hence the silhouette between the smoke is very straight, are the armor plates.
Place: near Leningrad.
Date: 1941.
History:
The GAZ - MM was produced in the late 1930s and early 1940s by GAZ in the Soviet Union. It is a simplified version of the Soviet license version of Ford Model AA. At the beginning of World War II, more than 150,000 were used by the Red Army.
The GAZ-MM was only a designation of a 50 HP reinforced engine, introduced in 1938, in the factory documents these trucks were still designated as GAZ AA.
Variants:
GAZ-65: prototype version. Produced in 1940.
4M GAZ-AAA: anti-aircraft truck equipped with a Maxim M1910 quad cannon.
72-K GAZ - MM: anti-aircraft truck equipped with an M1940 (72-K) automatic cannon of 25 mm air defense built during World War II.
- 72-K GAZ - MM anti-aircraft trucks equipped with an M1940 (72-K) automatic cannon of 25 mm anti-aircraft defense. The cannon was created in the early 1940s at Artillery Factory No. 8 in Kalinin, under the direction of chief designer Mikhail Loginov.