BA-64

The BA-64 was a Soviet four-wheeled armoured scout car of the Second World War, built by the Gorky Automobile Plant (GAZ) on the chassis of the GAZ-64 jeep and, in its BA-64B form, on the wider GAZ-67 chassis. Work began in July 1941 to replace the BA-20 then serving with Red Army armoured car units, and the hull took its angled armour plate from a captured German scout car that GAZ engineers were allowed to inspect. It was accepted for service on 14 March 1942. Its four-cylinder GAZ petrol engine drove a light, manoeuvrable and notably reliable vehicle that carried one 7.62 mm machine gun in an open turret. About 9,110 were built between 1942 and 1946, making it the most common Soviet wheeled armoured fighting vehicle of the war. After the war the surplus cars were exported as military aid, and North Korean examples fought in the Korean War.