Despite some flaws, two similar designs known as D-8 and D-12 would be introduced into service with the Soviet Army, albeit in small numbers. Dyrenkov proposed his design for a cheap and lightweight armored car to be used purely for reconnaissance operations. Armored cars were in huge demand, and the existing pool of vehicles consisted of obsolete and worn-out vehicles. The process of introducing new domestic military designs was slow and tedious and was lacking in all regards. However, it would never fulfill that role, since the only two vehicles ever built were completed in early 1941, well after the end of the Battle of France…ĭuring the 1930s, the Soviet Army was rather poorly armed and equipped. Development started in 1939, with the Army requesting a mobile “bunker buster” to destroy the fortifications on the French border.

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