If we talk about the most massive truck that was supplied to the Soviet Union during the Great Patriotic War, then this, of course, is the famous American Studebaker US6. More precisely, this car was generally the absolute leader among all types of military equipment, which, under Lend-Lease, came to the USSR during the Second World War. This is a three-axle vehicle with two wheel configurations: 6X6 or 6X4. Of the nearly 197,000 Studebaker US6s produced, over 100,000 ended up in the Soviet Union. More than half of them were either destroyed during the war or seriously damaged. However, even after the war, these American-made trucks were used on the roads of the USSR for quite a long time.
Today, the Russian army has many more options for using trucks for their own purposes. Used here are both conventional trucks for transporting personnel, and special truck tractors for transporting various types of goods. All details about ordering trucks can be found on the website https://tdrusavto.ru, where various options for technology are presented.
Returning to the Studebaker US6, it is worth noting that it significantly surpassed the trucks that were produced at that time in the Soviet Union. Its lifting capacity reached almost 2.5 tons with its own weight of about 4500 kg. Gasoline fuel was used for movement. At the same time, the consumption when driving at a speed of about 50 km / h reached 39-40 liters per hundred kilometers.
An interesting fact indicates that the Studebaker US6 was not operated by the American army itself. The reason here is not at all that the Americans considered this truck to be worse than analogues produced by other companies. The real reason is that the parameters of the car's engine did not match the standards that existed at that time.
One of the most famous uses for the Studebaker US6 is the Katyusha rocket launcher. Including from this American vehicle, missiles were launched, which effectively hit the enemy at a great distance. In addition to the Studebaker US6, rocket launchers were installed on Soviet cars: for example, on the BM-13. The Katyusha monument on the Studebaker US6 chassis can be seen at the museum on Poklonnaya Gora in the Russian capital.
