GAZ BA-64 4-Wheeled Light Armored Car
Channel: Main Battle Tank
Date: 10/03/2023

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GAZ BA-64 4-Wheeled Light Armored Car
Despite the heavy shift to tracked armored combat vehicles during World War 2, the massive Soviet Army understood the value in retaining the wheeled armored car for their production and maintenance simplicity, inherent mobility and low operational and procurement costs. Red Army failures in the Winter War against Finland through late-1939 into early-1940 and during the initial thrust of the German invasion of June 1941 through "Operation Barbarossa" revealed the need for all workable vehicle types to be brought to bear in the Soviet response. Design work of one such vehicle (under the direction of Vitaliy Grachev) began in July of 1941 and eventually begat the "BA-64" series of light armored cars - over 9,000 of the type being built by GAZ (Gorkovsky Avtomobilny Zavod = "Gorky Automobile Plant") from 1942 to 1946.