BA-27
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| BA-27 | |
|---|---|
| General characteristics | |
| Crew | 4 |
| Length | 4.62 m |
| Width | 1.81 m |
| Height | 2.52 m |
| Weight | 4.4 tonnes |
| Armour and armament | |
| Armour | 7 mm |
| Main armament | 37 mm gun |
| Secondary armament | 7.62 mm DT machine gun |
| Mobility | |
| Power plant | 4-cylinder gasoline AMO 35 hp (26 kW) |
| Suspension | 4×4 wheeled |
| Road speed | 48 km/h |
| Power/weight | 8 hp/tonne |
| Range | 350 km |
The BA-27 armoured car was a Soviet heavy armoured car, produced from 1928 to 1931, and used for scouting and infantry support duties early in the Second World War. The BA-27 had a similar turret to the T-18 tank, and both forward and reverse driver's controls.
In 1927, an Izhorsky Factory design team developed a heavy armoured car based on the chassis of the AMO-F-15 truck (a copy of the Fiat F-15). After lengthy trials, it was accepted into Soviet Red Army service in 1929. No more than several hundred were built between 1928–31. The last batch of BA-27s were mounted on Ford Model AA truck chassis.
The chassis was found to be inadequate to carry the heavy armour, and some were later rebuilt on heavier, three-axle Ford-Timken truck chassis at Repair Base No. 2 (Rembaz No. 2). 193 of these BA-27M armoured cars remained in service on June 1, 1941, just before the German invasion of the Soviet Union.
References
- Zaloga, Steven J., James Grandsen (1984). Soviet Tanks and Combat Vehicles of World War Two, London: Arms and Armour Press. ISBN 0-85368-606-8.
| Soviet Armored fighting vehicles of World War II | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Light tanks | Fast tanks | Amphibious tanks | |
| T-26 | T-50 | T-60 | T-70 | T-80 | BT-5 | BT-7 | BT-8 | T-37 | T-38 | T-40 | |
| Tankettes | Medium tanks | Heavy tanks | |
| T-27 | T-28 | T-34 | T-44 | T-35 | KV-1 | KV-2 | IS-2 | IS-3 | |
| Self-propelled guns | Anti-aircraft | ||
| ZiS-30 | SU-5 | SU-76 | SU-85 | SU-100 | SU-122 | SU-152 | ISU-122 | ISU-152 | T-60Z | T-70Z | T-90 | ||
| Armored tractors | Improvised AFVs | Experimental | |
| T-26T | Komsomolets | KhTZ-16 | IZ | NI | SU-14 | A-40 flying tank | SU-100Y | PPG | |
| Armored cars | |||
| D-8 | D-12 | D-13 | FAI | BA-10 | BA-11 | BA-20 | BA-21 | BA-3 | BA-6 | BA-27 | BA-64 | BA-I | LB-62 | LB-23 | |||
| Amphibious AC | Half-tracked AC | Aerosans
| |
| PB-4 | PB-7 | BAD-2 | BA-30 | ANT-IV | NKL-16 | NKL-26 | RF-8 | ASD-400 | |
| Soviet armored fighting vehicle production during World War II | |||
| List of armoured fighting vehicles of World War II | |||
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