GAZ-46
GAZ-46 (MAW) | |
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A GAZ-46 in Krakow (2010) |
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General properties | |
crew | 6th |
length | 5070 mm |
width | 1750 mm |
height | 2000 mm |
Dimensions | 1.85 tons |
agility | |
drive | GAZ-69 four-cylinder petrol engine 55 HP (40 kW) |
Top speed | 90 km / h |
Power / weight | 29.7 hp / t |
Range | 500 km |
The GAZ-46 is an amphibious vehicle with all-wheel drive from Soviet production, on the SUV -GAZ 69 is based. It was made by Gorkowski Avtomobilny Sawod and received the name MAW ( Russian МАВ , short for малый автомобиль водоплавающий, German about "small buoyant vehicle") in the armed forces . It is located below the BAW , the "large floating vehicle".
Vehicle history
As part of the Lend Lease Act , the Soviet Union also received American amphibious vehicles of the Ford GPA type during World War II . Of the vehicles built between 1941 and 1943 based on the Willys MB , depending on the source, between 2,200 and 3,500 units were used by the Red Army . This recognized the usefulness of the construction in combat.
After the war, from around 1949, the vehicle construction institute NAMI worked under the project name NAMI-011 with a successor based on the GAZ-67 . The project was later moved to Gorkowski Avtomobilny Sawod and continued there as GAZ-011. In 1953 a small series of 68 copies was produced, which were still based on the chassis of the GAZ-67.
In 1953 the chassis was replaced and that of the GAZ-69 was installed instead . The engine and gearbox were also adopted, although the engine is identical to that of the GAZ-M20. 654 units were built by 1958, after which production was discontinued. Although it was planned to relocate production like the off-road vehicle to Ulyanovsky Avtomobilny Sawod , this company failed. So it stayed with the vehicles that were built from 1953 to 1958.
The GAZ-46 was used in particular by engineer and reconnaissance units of the Soviet Army . It was also exported to other Warsaw Pact states .
Technical specifications
For the later version GAZ-46.
- Engine: four-cylinder gasoline engine
- Engine type: "GAZ-M20" (originated from the GAZ-M20 Pobeda )
- Displacement: 2111 cm³
- Bore: 82 mm
- Stroke: 100 mm
- Power: 55 HP (40 kW)
- Consumption: 20 l / 100 km
- Tank capacity: 90 l
- Transmission: three-speed manual transmission (from the GAZ-69)
- Top speed: 90 km / h, 10 km / h in the water
- Range on land: 500 km
- Range in water: 5 hours
- Drive formula : 4 × 4
Dimensions and weights
- Length: 5070 mm
- Width: 1750 mm
- Height: 2000 mm
- Wheelbase: 2300 mm
- Track width: 1450 mm
- Ground clearance: 210 mm
- Empty weight: 1850 kg
- Payload: 500 kg
- Permissible total weight: 2350 kg
- Trailer load: 850 kg
literature
- René Pohl: Go swimming in the car. HEEL Verlag, Gut-Pottscheidt Königswinter 1998, ISBN 3-89365-702-9 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ford GPA website with technical data (Russian)
- ↑ a b c d Technical data on the vehicle (Russian)
- ↑ Website for GAZ-011 (Russian)
- ↑ Website with historical background and photos of the vehicle (Russian)