GAZ-46 (MAW) amphibious

Class	off road
Type	amphibious
crew	6
length	5070 mm
width	1750 mm
height	2000 mm
Dimensions	1.85 tons
drive	GAZ-69 four-cylinder gasoline 55 hp (40 kW)
top speed	90 km / h
Power / weight	29.7 PS / t
reach	500 km

The GAZ-46 is an amphibious vehicle with four-wheel drive from Soviet production built from 1953 to 1958.

History

The GAZ-46 is based on the GAZ-69 off-road vehicle. The Gorkowski Awtomobilny Zavod produced it, and it was given the name Armed Forces MAW. It's beneath the BAW, or "large buoyant vehicle." During WWII, the Soviet Union got US-style amphibious vehicles of the type Ford GPA, which were constructed between 1941 and 1943 and were based on the Willys MB, with up to 3500 made for the Red Army as part of the Lend-Lease Act. After the war, the NAMI vehicle building institute began development on the NAMI-011 project in 1949, with a successor based on the GAZ-67. Later, the project continued as GAZ-011 In 1953, a small series of 68 was produced, which still built on the chassis of the GAZ -67. 

1953, the chassis was replaced and instead of the GAZ-69. Also engine and transmission were taken over, whereby the engine is identical with that of the GAZ-M20. By 1958, 654 copies were built, before production stopped.  Although it was planned that production as the SUV into the UAZ to , but this venture failed. So it remained with the vehicles, which had been built from 1953 to 1958. The GAZ-46 was used in particular in pioneer and reconnaissance units of the Soviet Army . This was also exported to other states of the Warsaw Pact .