* BA-20, an armored car developed in the Soviet Union in 1936

The BA-20 () was an armored car developed in the Soviet Union in 1936 and used in the early stages of World War II.

The BA-20 was used by the Red Army in the Soviet invasion of Poland later in 1939 and the Winter War against Finland in 1940, as well as the early stages of Operation Barbarossa in 1941.

During the Cold War, the ČSLA was equipped primarily with Soviet arms, although certain arms like the OT-64 SKOT armored personnel carrier, the L-29 Delfín and L-39 Albatros aircraft, the P-27 Pancéřovka antitank rocket launcher, the Sa vz.

* Part of Christopher Young's score from Def Con 4 in several scenes ( including Godzilla's attack on the Soviet submarine, the scene where the SDF armored division arrives in Tokyo Bay, and Okumura's near-death experience during the helicopter extraction in Tokyo ).

The Red Army began the war while still in the process of reorganizing its armored and mechanized formations, most of which were destroyed during the first months of the German invasion of the Soviet Union.

The Soviet Union marshaled 466, 516 soldiers, 3, 739 tanks, 380 armored cars, and approximately 1, 200 fighters, 600 bombers, and 200 other aircraft against Poland.

During the South African Border War, the Soviet RPGs used by SWAPO guerilllas and their Angolan supporters posed a serious threat to South Africa's lightly armored APCs, which could be easily targeted as soon as they stopped to disembark troops.

During the socialist administration of Siad Barre, Somalia was at first closely aligned with the Soviet Union, a relationship which enabled it to amass among the largest armored and mechanized forces on the continent.

When the United States does not back down, Soviet armored divisions are sent to the border between West and East Germany.

Therefore, a Soviet “ rush to the Channel ” ( from Western Poland / East German starting points ) would have been denied the follow-on forces ( having been destroyed by V-Force tactical air ) which would have made the success of such an armored thrust possible.

Therefore, the V-Force ( by having the capability of precision tactical air medium bombardment ) effectively deterred the armored overrun strategy, of the massed and massive Soviet & Warsaw Pact armies, which ( in theory ), could have overwhelmed the vastly outnumbered NATO ground forces of central Europe in a surprise ground attack ( which did not give away tactical surprise, by use of organic tactical air support ).

** Soviet war in Afghanistan: The last Soviet Union armored column leaves Kabul, ending 9 years of military occupation.

The neutron bomb was originally conceived by the U. S. military as a weapon that could stop massed Soviet armored divisions from overrunning allied nations without destroying the infrastructure of the allied nation.

Soviet leader Joseph Stalin was apparently an admirer, stating that the Red Army could neither have planned nor executed Patton's rapid armored advance across France.

Soviet conventional superiority, shown by the fact that the Soviet Union certainly was prepared for war in Europe, having massed armored, mechanized, artillery, and air forces poised along the Inner German and Czech borders, led by the dreaded Third Shock Army of the Soviet Union, caused NATO to consider the use of tactical nuclear weapons to stop the " steamroller " of the Red Army if they decided to take a drive through the Fulda Gap or an amble through the North German Plain.

The Afghan army forces had a high desertion rate and were loath to fight, especially since the Soviet forces pushed them into infantry roles while they manned the armored vehicles and artillery.

A column of Soviet BTR armored personnel carriers departing from Afghanistan.

In May 1945, by the end of the war in Europe, the Free French forces comprised 1, 300, 000 personnel, and included seven infantry divisions and three armored divisions fighting in Germany making it the fourth largest allied army in Europe behind the Soviet Union, the U. S. and Britain.

Before and during World War II, however, Soviet armored units were organized into corps.

Defenders of the T-80 point out that the T-72 performed just as badly in urban fighting in Grozny as the T-80, and there were two mitigating factors: after the breakup of the Soviet Union poor funding meant no training for new Russian tank crews, and the tank force entering the city had no infantry support, which is considered to be suicidal by many major military strategists of armored warfare.

The T-26 was the most numerous tank in the Red Army's armored force during the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941.

Intended only as a training tank to introduce the concept of armored warfare to the German Army, the Panzer I saw combat in Spain during the Spanish Civil War, in Poland, France, the Soviet Union and North Africa during the Second World War, and in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

As the Nationalist armor advanced, it was engaged by the Commune de Paris battalion, equipped with Soviet BA-10 armored cars.

The J. I's pattern of an armored fuselage that protected the nose mounted engine, pilot and observer in a unitized metal " bathtub ", was the possible inspiration for Sergei Ilyushin's later Il-2 Shturmovik ( conceivably appropriate as Junkers did have a manufacturing plant in Fili, a suburb of Moscow, in the Soviet Union in the 1920s ) with a similar armored fuselage design.

Examples include the U. S. M901 ITV ( Improved TOW Vehicle ) and the Norwegian NM142, both on an M113 chassis, several Soviet ATGM launchers based on the BRDM reconnaissance car, the British FV438 Swingfire and FV102 Striker and the German Raketenjagdpanzer series built on the chassis of the HS 30 and Marder IFV.

Just a year later a new Soviet car, the Moskvitch 400, rolled off a Moscow assembly line.

The Trabant was a steel monocoque design with roof, bootlid / trunklid, bonnet / hood, bumpers / fenders and doors in Duroplast, a hard plastic similar to bakelite made of recycled materials: cotton waste from the Soviet Union and phenol resins from the East German dye industry, making the Trabant the first car with a body made of recycled material.

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* May 4 – Fiat signs a contract with the Soviet government to build a car factory in the Soviet Union.

" As Sergey recalls, the trip awakened his childhood fear of authority " and he remembered that his first " impulse on confronting Soviet oppression had been to throw pebbles at a police car ".

As a limousine-class car, Chaikas were available only to the Soviet government, and could not be purchased by the average citizens.

The Lada Samara is an economy car produced by Soviet / Russian vehicle manufacturer AvtoVAZ under the Lada brand since 1984.

After the success of the mission Belyayev and Leonov were awarded Hero of the Soviet Union, given 15, 000 rubles, a Volga car and 45 days leave.

* FAI armoured car, a Soviet military vehicle of the early 1930s

It successfully lobbied Fiat to set up the AvtoVAZ ( Lada ) car factory in the Soviet Union.

After that the subject was thrown into a car and driven to the border of the Soviet Union.

* Herb Brooks, the coach of the 1980 US gold medal ice hockey team that beat the Soviet Union in a game that was called The Miracle on Ice, dies in a car accident.

* Soviet / Russian RT-23 Molodets ( railway car ICBM )

In January 1948, Mikhoels was killed in Minsk by the Soviet secret police agents who staged the murder as a car accident.

While the official growth rate of the economy of the Georgia was among the lowest in the USSR, such indicators as savings level, rates of car and house ownership were the highest in the Union, making Georgia one of the most economically successful Soviet republics.

The Type 94 tankette (, Kyūyon-shiki keisōkōsha, literally " 94 type light armored car ", also known as TK that is abbreviation of " Tokushu Keninsha " that means special tractor ) was a tankette used by the Imperial Japanese Army in the Second Sino-Japanese War, at Nomonhan against the Soviet Union, and in World War II.

In 1966, Fiat entered into a collaborative agreement with the Soviet government to establish car manufacture in the depressed Samara-Oblast region of Russia.

The VAZ-2105, VAZ-2104 and VAZ-2107 ( collectively known as the Lada Riva in the United Kingdom and the Lada Nova in much of continental Europe ) are a series of medium-sized family cars built by Russian car manufacturer AvtoVAZ, introduced in 1980 in the Soviet Union, and progressively in other European markets through the early 1980s and sold in both saloon and estate versions.

In January 1948, Mikhoels was killed in Minsk by the Soviet secret police agents who staged the murder as a car accident.

There was only one Soviet car more basic, and that was a special vehicle for disabled people, SZD.

It was 1983, and the first Soviet front-wheel drive automobile, the 2108, was ready to hit the market ; so the Oka initiative quickly became the next " people's car " project, the one that " every factory engineer can afford ".

In January 1948 the JAC's head, the popular actor and world-famous public figure Solomon Mikhoels, was killed by the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs ( MVD ) on the Politburo's orders ; his murder was framed as a car accident where a truck ran over him as he was taking a walk on a narrow road.

The Sdkfz 222 was examined by Soviet designers before they created the similar BA-64 light armoured car.