Two Armored Cars for the Eastern Front

[+Stephen1918 1,473]

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Two Armored Cars for the Eastern Front

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Two new armored cars for the Eastern Front. Both cars were produced in relatively low numbers, I'm including them for the sake of variety.

 

The Russo-Balt Type C was produced by the Russo-Baltique motor car company. About 15 were built. The armored car was built on a automobile chassis and had four gun ports, each with a Vickers machine gun. It had a crew of 4 or 5, had a top speed of 20 kph with a range of about 100km. The Russo-Balt Type C was used throughout the war and was used in the Civil War.

 

The Junovicz P.A.1 was built on a truck chassis. There were different versions based on different trucks, about 5 were built. The armored car had six gun ports with 3 or 4 Schwartzlose machine guns. It had crew of 5, a top speed of 35 kph, and a range of 350km. The Junovicz P.A.1 was used on both the Galician and Italian Fronts.

 

In First Eagles, the armored cars take the role of a tank, drop them into your ground object folder and First Eagles will randomly assign them to some of your Army Co-operation missions.

 

Installation Instructions

 

Unzip the file and open my "GroundObject" folder. Copy the folders named "AustrianArmoredCar" and "RussBaltCar" to your FirstEagles/Objects/GroundObject folder. Both armored cars use the same skin for damage as my other armored cars. If you have already installed any of my armored cars, you may already have the file. If not, copy the file named "DestroyedArmoredCar.bmp" into your GroundObject folder. Note that the "DestroyedArmoredCar.bmp" file should not be inside any other folder.

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• Submitter
  Stephen1918
• Submitted
  05/05/2017
• Category
  First Eagles - WWI and Early Years - Object Mods

 

[Crawford 570]

Thank you for the next great 3D models!

As for the armored cars on the chassis of the Russo-Balt Type C, in 1914 only 8 armored cars were built. All these armored cars served in the 1st machine-gun automobile comany (avtorota) and were used on the North-Western front (in East Prussia and Poland on the direction of Lodz). At last, in 1915 another one armored car was produced. Another one armored vehicle of similar design (on a chassis) was manufactured at the Izhora Plant in 1915 for the 1st motorcycle company (rota). Of all built, only this armored car was actually used during the Civil War.

[+Stephen1918 1,473]

Thanks for the info Crawford. A good resource for me was the Wikipedia article - https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Руссо-Балт_тип_С- (No - I used Google Translate) 

Another resource (in English) is here - http://www.tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww1/russia/Russo-Balt.php

[Crawford 570]

Thanks for the info Crawford. A good resource for me was the Wikipedia article - https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Руссо-Балт_тип_С- (No - I used Google Translate) 

Another resource (in English) is here - http://www.tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww1/russia/Russo-Balt.php

I have a book "Armor of the Russian army. Armored cars and armored trains in the First World War", printed in Moskow in 2008. Of course, it is in Russian - "Броня русской армии. Бронеавтомобили и бронепоезда в Первой мировой войне"

 

Edited May 6, 2017 by Crawford