GAZ-TK armoured car

The GAZ-TK was a Soviet light armoured car of the interwar period, designed by Leonid Kurchevsky, the inventor of recoilless guns. In early 1935 his design bureau proposed building an armoured car on the chassis of its earlier three-axle car of the same name, and an experimental example was approved. It was a compilation of parts from several vehicles: the running gear, transmission and engine came from the three-axle GAZ-TK truck, which had taken them from the GAZ-A, while the body came from the FAI armoured car, cut in the middle and widened by 820 mm to hold a 71-TK radio, and the turret and 7.62 mm DT machine gun were also from the FAI. Factory tests from June to September 1935 covered 1,665 km on roads around Moscow and found the car overloaded, less mobile than the GAZ-AAA and ZIS-6, underarmed, and slower than the FAI at 63.5 km/h against 85. It was judged unfit for service with the Red Army and development was stopped.