Chemical armored car (abbr. BHM - “b oyem x emicheskaya m shashina” [sn 1] ) is a type of armored car of the Red Army during the interwar period : armored car (usually average by weight [1] [2] ) of special purpose, equipped with equipment for firing curtains , as well as for the decontamination of terrain or spraying of chemical warfare agents over it. Unlike chemical tanks , chemical armored cars were not intended for flame throwing and did not carry flame thrower weapons. [1] [2]
Chemical armored cars were actively developed in the USSR throughout the 1930s , but they were produced in small quantities and did not receive significant distribution. Took a limited part in the Soviet-Finnish war and in the battles of the Great Patriotic War [1] [2] ; in the initial period of the war, the development of a new chemical armored car and its introduction of mass production at the Izhora plant was also assumed, but the development project was not received in connection with the evacuation [3] . In the future, the idea of a chemical armored car was finally abandoned.
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List of chemical armored cars
- D-18/37 ( 1932 ) - an experimental machine.
- BHM-800 ( 1933 ) - serial semi-armored car.
- KS-18 ( 1937 ) - serial machine.
- BA-23 ( 1937 ) - the project.
- Chemical armored car Izhora plant ( 1941 ) - the project.
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Footnotes
- ↑ Some types of chemical tanks also carried a similar designation.
Sources
Literature
- Kolomiets MV Medium armored vehicles of the Red Army. - M . : Strategy KM LLC, 2005. - 80 p. - (Front illustration). - 3000 copies - ISBN 5-901266-01-3 .
- Kolomiets M.V. Armor on wheels. The history of the Soviet armored car 1925-1945. - M .: Yauza, KM Strategy, Eksmo , 2007. - 384 p. - (Soviet tanks). - 6000 copies - ISBN 978-5-699-21870-7 .