ZIS-5 served also as base for many special trucks like refuellers, field workshops, ambulances, portee guns, and AA platforms. After the GAZ-AA , the ZIS-5 was the 2nd most used Red Army truck of 1933-1943 period.

Two trucks really made the bread and butter of motorized units on the eastern front during WW2: The ZIS-5 and GAZ AA/AAA/MM. Together they represented a total of 1,400 000 light utility trucks. They still could tow a small artillery piece, machine gun, trailer, and carry troops and supplies to the battlefield.

Aug 21, 2017 · As it was, three different chassis were available for these improvised armored trucks, the GAZ-AA, the ZIS-5 and the ZIS-6. The GAZ-AA and ZIS-5 trucks were equipped with plates that are reported to have been between 3-10 mm thick, that covered the …

The ZIS-5 is a medium/heavy-duty truck that was produced by ZiS from 1935 to 1955, and then from Ural Trucks from 1956 to 1962. The vehicle is a modernization of the AMO-2 and AMO-3 trucks that were based on the Autocar Dispatch SA trucks.

Feb 10, 2002 · UAZ-ZIS produced ZIS-5 from 1942-1944. By 1942 the main ZIS located in Moscow restarted production of ZIS-5 and continued until 1947. The new UralZIS plant in Miass started the production line of UralZIS-5 in summer of 1944 and put their own logos on the radiators, continuing production until 1955. Also important to notice is that from 1942 all ...

ZIS-5 served also as base for many special trucks. After GAZ-AA it was 2nd place main truck in Red Army in 1933-1943. But if GAZ-AA went a little onto second roles with intensive growth of Lend Lease trucks shipping in 1943-1944, ZIS-5 remained one of main carriers of war loads.

ZIS 5 truck is the famous “three-ton” Soviet truck of the era of the Great Patriotic War. The second most popular truck in the country after 1.5-ton GAZ-AA, earned this fame for its ruggedness and reliability.

Designed in 1933 and adopted by the Red Army in 1935, almost a million were built (most of them between 1941 and 1945), half of them by the ZIS (Zavod imeni Stalina or Stalin’s Factory). It was the Red Army’s second most popular truck after the GAZ-AA. Your source for information on the 1939-45 war since 2003.

ZIS-5 ("three-ton") - a Soviet truck with a carrying capacity of 3 tons; the second largest (after the GAZ-AA) truck of the 1930-40s, one of the main transport vehicles of the Red Army during the Great Patriotic War.

Aug 7, 2014 · The ZIS-5V vehicle, a four-wheeled high-sided truck with 4×2 axle arrangement, and payload of 3 tons, was one of the basic Soviet vehicles during the World War II, the second most numerous war time truck after GAZ-AA, according to the company.