I know very little about vehicles, but I do know that the Russians didn't really manufacture there own APC carriers. Was this because this would get in the way of tank production?

Also, I am hearing they used land leased American Vehicles? If so, what were they?


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Thru Lend Lease the Soviets recieved from the UK both the MKI and MKII Universal Carriers (Bren Carriers) and from the US the M2,M3 and M5 halftracks,M17 Multiple Gun Motor Carriage,T48 Gun Motor Carriage (SU-57),M15A1 Combination Gun Motor Carriage
and M3A1 Scout Car

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As far as lend lease vehicles, just about everything in the US rolling stock, from jeeps to tanks, 3/4 ton trucks, Deuce and halfs, M2 & M3 half tracks.

The Limeys sent their vehicles also.

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So it would get in the way of tank manufacturing?

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Who needs an APC when you can stick this many men on a T34, point West, and shout 'Thataway!'.


More sensibly, It always seems in the 'hotter' periods that only the Full tracked tanks could keep up with the combination of speed of advance & conditions in the East. Trucks and lighter vehicles struggled, available APCs like the halftracks were far less efficient than simply getting Infantry to hitch a ride on some armour when it was available.
On the production side; a combination of doctrine (perhaps political as well as military), situation, and sense, would mean that any factory that could produce armoured vehicles would be more use to the war making Tanks than other more specialist armour?

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They had APCs, they were the most produced thing, and had a turret

I guess just because of the fighting style it wasn't completely necessary. But they sure used the ones given from the Allies during the Lend Lease program.

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