From the bottom of the Volga raised armored times of World War II
The raised vessel was considered missing from October 1942 of the year, two years ago it was accidentally discovered by an amateur diver. Researchers stories river fleet suggested that it was the BK-31 armored boat, which sank near the island of Golodny in the days of the Battle of Stalingrad. According to Kabelkov, the armored car was called "a tank on the water. " The combat vessel was equipped with a 76-mm cannon from the T-34 tank and two machine guns of 7,62 mm caliber.
The boat belongs to the C-40 project common in the years of the Great Patriotic War - an artillery armored border boat with a steel hull. They were created before the war to patrol large border rivers and were built in Leningrad. The course provided a gasoline engine power 1200 hp The armored boat developed speeds up to 15 nodes.
- Administration of the Volgograd region
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