ZIS-42

ZIS-42

ZIS-42

ZIS-42M

Pro­duced 1942–1944. ZIS-42 main func­tion was to trail heavy guns and pro­vide trans­porta­tion of var­i­ous car­goes in areas with­out road. It shares front end and cabin with ZIS-5. In 1943 ZIS-5 engine was changed to ZIS-16 (95 hp)engine because the orig­i­nal engine didn’t have enough power.  Data here is based on orig­i­nal ZIS-5 engine.

In 1944 ZIS-43 pro­to­type was built in GAZ fac­tory. It had 37 mm anti air­craft gun fit­ted on ZIS-42 body.

ZIS-42 wasn’t as good as you might expect. It could only go through snow and swamps with­out prob­lems. Also half­tracks were very unre­li­able and engines were under­pow­ered to move the tracks.  Thats prob­a­bly why after that no more half-tracks were designed. Chekc out another half­track GAZ-60 also.

Engine (ZIS-5)
For­mula 6 cylin­der gaso­line
Dis­place­ment 5,555 liters
Per­fo­mance 73 hp @ 2300 rpm
Torque 185 lb/ft
Com­pres­sion ratio 4,6:1
Gear­box 4 speeds
Fuel tank 300 liters
Fuel typ gasolline A-66
Fuel con­sump­tion 60 liters/100 km
Top speed 45 km/h

Mea­sures
Lenght 6095 mm
Width 2360 mm
Height 2950 mm
Wheel base 3810 mm
Ground clear­ance 395 mm

Weights
Curb weight 5250 kg
Pay­load 2250 kg

ba-64-armoured-car

Pro­duced 1942 — 1946 (used until 1960s). BA-64 is based on GAZ-64 and about 9000 units were pro­duced (exact num­ber is not known). In 1943 BA-64B was intro­duced. It was based on GAZ-67 (suc­ces­sor of GAZ-64). This improved model had larger wheel­base and also a small machine-gun tur­ret was added. All­to­gether many ver­sions of this vechi­cle were produced:

• BA-64 -  ini­tial open-topped pro­duc­tion, based on GAZ-64
• BA-64B — main pro­duc­tion with tur­ret, based on GAZ-67B
• BASh-64 -  staff vehi­cle with a vari­ety of armoured compartments
• BA-64DShK — armed with 12.7mm DShK heavy machine gun
• BA-64D (pro­to­type only) — per­son­nel car­rier for six men
• BA-64ZhD (pro­to­type only) — two dif­fer­ent rail­car ver­sions with flanged wheels.
• BA-64SKh (pro­to­type only) -  half-track with front skis for travel in snow, based on exper­i­men­tal GAZ-60

Engine (GAZ-mm)
For­mula  inline 4 cylin­der gaso­line
Power 50 hp @ 2800 rpm
Dis­place­ment 3,285 liters
Fuel tank capac­ity
Max speed 80 km/h

Mea­sures
Lenght 3660 mm
Width 1690 mm
Height 11900 mm
Ground clear­ance 235 mm

Weights
Cerb weight 2360 kg

Abil­i­ties
Pri­mary weapon 7,62 mm DT machine gun with 1260 rounds
Armor 4–15 mm