THE RED GAMBIT SERIES

I'm asking because the BTR wasn't first produced until 1950 or so, and the BTR-40 was manufactured beforehand, so wouldn't the Soviets make the 40 first?

Easy one to answer. No way the BTR152 can figure as I see it. Its a reach getting any BTR40s involved. BTR 141 prototype might make it, but only in teh latter stages of Endgame, and then i would ask myself if producing light recce vehicles would have consumed any of the USSRs resources.

gee_colin@yahoo.co.uk at December 18, 2015 at 4:36 AM

Easy one to answer. No way the BTR152 can figure as I see it. Its a reach getting any BTR40s involved. BTR 141 prototype might make it, but only in teh latter stages of Endgame, and then i would ask myself if producing light recce vehicles would have consumed any of the USSRs resources.

Well, the BTR-152 was mentioned in Initiative, and I thought that you might have intended it thus.

On page 209 of Initiative, you wrote. "Alongside them was the experimental SPAA troop, consisting of two of the extremely new BTR-152, known as the ZSU-12-4, based on the latest transport development, the Zis-151 truck."