Soviet BRDM-1 & BRDM-2 Armoured Cars & Variants
$55.25
- Hardcover
120 pages
- Release Date
15 October 2026
Summary
When introduced into service in 1959, the BRDM-1 armoured car was a unique purpose-designed 4x4 wheeled reconnaissance vehicle. The BRDM-1 met the typical armoured car requirements of adequate armament and armour for its intended role, but was a particularly versatile technically advanced machine, being fully amphibious, propelled in water by a hydro-jet water propulsion system, and with chain-driven auxiliary wheels to assist egress from rivers and in rough terrain.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781806721276 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1806721279 |
| Author: | James Kinnear |
| Publisher: | Helion & Company |
| Imprint: | Helion & Company |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 120 |
| Release Date: | 15 October 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 297mm x 210mm |
| Series: | Technology@War |
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About The Author
James Kinnear
James Kinnear was born in Scotland and graduated from Aberdeen University in 1982. He first visited the Soviet Union as a young teenager during the Cold War era and subsequently lived and worked in the Russian Federation and the other former Soviet republics throughout the three decades that followed the break-up of the Soviet Union. James has written hundreds of articles on Soviet and Russian military technology for defence analysis publications and has published books on the subject with Barbarossa, Canfora, Darlington, Osprey, and Tankograd. This is his first book for Helion.
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