3 GAZ-AAA W/57MM ZIS-2 AT GUN

The GAZ-AAA was a Soviet light truck from the interwar period and World War II. The vehicle had a total length of 5.34 meters and a width of 2.04 meters and a wheelbase of 3.2 meters (between the 1st and 3rd axle). It reached a maximum speed of 65 km / h. The car could carry a load of 2,000 kilograms. Initially, the drive was a 4-cylinder engine with a capacity of 3.3 liters and a maximum power of 42 HP, synchronized with a 4-speed manual gearbox. The drive was transferred to the two rear axles. The GAZ-AAA was developed as a development of the GAZ-AA car, a license copy of the American Ford AA truck. The main change concerned the use of one more axle, which made the GAZ-AAA a three-axle truck. Serial production of the car started in 1934 and lasted until 1943. It is estimated that about 38,000 trucks of this type were built in the course of the project. In the period 1941-1945, in connection with the hostilities, a radically simplified and impoverished version was produced, with, for example, a canvas roof or a wooden driver's cabin door.The ZIS-2 is a Soviet 57mm towed anti-tank gun designed by Vasily Grabin. The gun went into production in 1941 and was able to penetrate any frontal armor of a German tank at that time. However, the sufficient parameters of the existing wz.1942 gun made the mass production of the ZIS-2 gun started in 1943, with the appearance of the Pz.Kpfw V and VI tanks on the front lines. More than 9500 pieces of this weapon were created, which served in anti-tank divisions of infantry divisions and in independent artillery regiments. After the end of hostilities, she was relatively quickly withdrawn from the Red Army. Technical data: barrel length: 4160mm, range: 8400m, caliber: 57mm, combat weight: 1250kg, projectile initial speed: 1270m / s (sub-caliber, anti-tank missile), rate of fire: 25rpm. Penetration: vertical armor plate 96mm at a distance of 1000m.