Armo A7204 "Russo-Balt" typ S, 1914

Russo Bałt Typ S (or Type C) is a Russian armored car from the First World War. The car was 4.46 meters long and 1.98 meters wide. The drive was provided by a single Russo-Bałt C engine with a capacity of 61 HP. The operating range did not exceed 100 kilometers. The armament of the vehicle consisted of 3-4 7.62 mm machine guns. It is assumed that only 8 to 15 cars of this type were produced in total. The Russo Bałt Type S / C armored car was the first vehicle of this type in the history of Russia to be fully produced by domestic industry. In order to shorten the work on the new vehicle, the chassis of the Bałt C 24/40 car was used. The car had armor composed of armor plates up to 6.5 millimeters thick, and its armament was not placed in the rotating turret, but in the crew compartment of the vehicle. Russo Bałt wagons took an active part in World War I, but also in the Polish-Bolshevik war (1919-1921) and in the civil war in Russia.