Le Prof Posted December 16, 2017 Share Posted December 16, 2017 Hi All, I saw this recent recovery of a Soviet armoured patrol boat from the Volga, and thought it might be of interest here too. best Regards, Prof http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2017/12/11/soviet-armored-ww2-patrol-boat-bk-31-recovered-stalingrad/ 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great War truck Posted December 16, 2017 Share Posted December 16, 2017 Amazing. What a wonderful thing to recover. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoranWC51 Posted December 27, 2017 Share Posted December 27, 2017 The early river monitor boats built in the Soviet Union before the war and early on in the war used gasoline or dieasel engines of their own manufacture. Later on in construction it was decided to keep the Soviet engines (Same type as used in their tanks) for the production of tanks, and turned instead to putting twin V-12 Lend-Lease Packard V-12 engines in them, which worked really well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted December 27, 2017 Share Posted December 27, 2017 Axis forces used a similar type of vessel known as an F or Flac Lighter. Some ended up in Jersey used to escort convoys to from the Island's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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