GAZ-50

The GAZ-50 was an experimental Soviet wheeled infantry fighting vehicle, developed in 1971 by the design bureau of the Gorky Automobile Plant (GAZ) in Gorky, now Nizhny Novgorod. Its base was the BTR-60PB armoured personnel carrier, also designated GAZ-49. The welded rolled-steel hull and turret gave protection against bullets, with the engine at the rear, the fighting compartment in the turret and side hatches for the dismounting troops, and water-jets drove it afloat. Its main armament was the 73 mm smoothbore 2A28 Grom gun with 40 rounds, a coaxial 7.62 mm PKT machine gun with 2,000 rounds and a launcher with four Malyutka 9M14M anti-tank missiles. The prototype passed its trials but was never adopted for service or built in series, although the BTR-70 armoured personnel carrier was later developed from it. One surviving example is held at the Tank Museum in Kubinka.