RussoBalt armored car. Born again!

It was so sad that no original RussoBalt armored cars left.

But - some enthusiasts built it again! Again and original!

And now we can proudly tell - RussoBalt returns not only like new UberLuxury armored car, and not only like military DARTZ Kombat car.

RussoBalt returns in it's original state.

Below You will read the history of Russian armored car.

The history which DARTZ.EU proudly continue.

Before the First World War, the Russian Army utilized a combination of imported armored car designs and a small number of indigenous vehicles. The country did not, however, at this time possess the industrial base to series produce armored cars. There were several small automotive plants in Russia, but these were restricted to the production of limited numbers of light vehicles.

Interest in armored vehicles was forced on Russia as a result of the 1904-05 Russo-Japanese war, which proved a major learning experience for Russian forces at sea and on land. The war showed the backwardness of Russian tactics and also demonstrated the value of mechanized machine gun support for breakthrough operations. As a direct result of this wartime experience, several armored car designs were developed and prototypes tested for the Russian War Ministry, but series production of Russian armored cars was still some years in the future.

In 1908, the Russko-Baltiysky (Russo-Balt) light vehicle plant in Riga, Latvia developed and produced its first indigenously designed armored car. The plant produced limited numbers of chassis for armored cars in Riga from 1908 until 1915, when parts of the plant (which also produced aircraft assemblies) were split and evacuated to Fili, Taganrog, and locations in the St. Petersburg region. The part of the plant relocated to Fili (now part of Moscow) was subsequently converted to specialize in the manufacture and repair of armored cars, tanks, and other vehicles. The plant was later renamed as the “First Brone-Tanko Avtomobilniy Zavod (BTAZ).” The Izhorskiy plant manufactured the armored bodies for these vehicles, which were assembled at the relocated Russko- Baltiysky plant after 1915. The most common early production model armored car was the Russo-Balt M, armed with three 7.62mm M-1905 “Maxim” machine guns, though 37mm main armament could also be installed. The vehicle was particularly slow, with a maximum speed of only 20km/hour, but was otherwise capable and well armed and mounted on a strong chassis.

The first Russian half track was designed in the garage of Tsar Nicholas 2 in 1909 and was produced at the Russko-Baltiysky plant from 1913. On this chassis, the first Russian series-produced half-track armored car was developed and produced; this vehicle also being commonly referred to as the Russo-Balt. To put armored car manufacture at this time in perspective, during the six year period 1908-14, the Russko-Baltiysky plant produced only 450 vehicles in total, of which only a small number were armored cars.

Here is brief history of car which was reborned at 1998. Reborned to take place of legendary fathers RussoBalt and PROMBRON', reborn to be proudly named PROMBRON' (ex.RussoBaltique) - world FIRST armored car.

FIRST - as it is oldest, still-alive armored car brand.

FIRST - as this is Russian Tzar Nikolai II Army supplier brand.

FIRST - as from it's board Lenin told his famous speach, which shocked and shoocked the World and began Socialist era.

 

FIRST - as new commy Tzars Trozky, Kalinin, Voroshilov drive this car under name PROMBRON' (ex.RussoBalt)

FIRST - as now it is most luxury, fastest and unique armored car in the world.

Legend returns.

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WE KEEP TRADITIONS.

INNOVATING.

 

 

 

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