GT-MU

The GT-MU is an all-terrain, lightly armoured and buoyant tracked vehicle developed in the Soviet Union at the Gorky Automobile Plant, GAZ, as a further development of the unarmoured GT-SM of the 1960s. It was built for airborne forces that needed a small, light, armoured and cross-country transport, and served mainly as an armoured personnel carrier and as a carrier for special equipment. Its hull is welded from six millimetre armoured steel, enough against small arms and shell splinters, and divided into compartments: driver and commander at the front, then the engine, then a cargo hold for six to ten soldiers or a payload. The original engine was the four-cylinder GAS-73 carburettor engine of 113 horsepower, and the GT-MU-1D version has a supercharged air-cooled diesel of 173 horsepower. In water it swims on its tracks. Serial production began in 1971 at Zavolzhye, and variants include the RChM-2 chemical reconnaissance vehicle and the SPR-1 radio jamming station.