Russian/USSR Military Vehicles -- Information Resources

Military Parade in Cuba featuring Soviet trucks equipped with missile launchers
Military Parade in Cuba featuring Soviet trucks equipped with missile launchers.

Weapons & Equipment of Russia and the Former Soviet Union. An awesome site with in-depth photo laced coverage of the topic. Small arms, anti-tank, tank, AFV, air defense and more.

Visit the Russian language Museum of Antique Cars and Motorcycles for its many photo-rich pages of automobiles, trucks, motorcycles and more. A few pages are in English or other languages, but navigation is somewhat difficult if you don't know the Russian language. For military vehicles, visit these pages:

Hardware of the PKKA*CA, the Red Army of the Soviet Union, is covered on this page. Tanks and artillery -- history, deployment, and battles.

The BTR-60 Armored Personnel Carrier is covered by the linked page, part of the FAS extensive list of Rest-of-World Land Combat Systems.

Visit the Olive-Drab Military Vehicle Charts that start here. Many military vehicles, soft-skin and armor, are listed with photos.

Find More Information on the Web

There are many fine websites that have additional information on this topic, too many to list here and too many to keep up with as they come and go. Use this Google web search form to get an up to date report of what's out there.

For good results, try entering this: "military vehicles" russia or soviet or ussr. Then click the Search button.

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Russian/USSR Military Vehicles

With one of the world's largest land armies, a great many vehicles of all types were developed and fielded by the military of Russia and the former Soviet Union. These were widely deployed in satellite and client nations of the former Soviet Union and are now found all over the world.

A Soviet-made BTR-60 armored personnel carrier discovered by U.S. Marines, abandoned in the center of a village in Afghanistan's Oruzgan province, 2 June 2004
A Soviet-made BTR-60 armored personnel carrier discovered by U.S. Marines, abandoned in the center of a village in Afghanistan's Oruzgan province, 2 June 2004.

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