BAV 485

The ZIS-485, army designation BAV (Russian, БАВ, большой автомобиль водоплавающий - bolshoi avtomobil vodoplavayushchiy, big floating vehicle), is a Soviet amphibious transport, a copy of the WWII American DUKW.During World War II, the Soviets received 586 DUKW-353 amphibious trucks under the Lend-Lease Act.Due to lack of own experience, the DUKW was copied, although with improvements enhancing its capability.[6] Introduced in 1952,[7] it was intended to complement the GAZ-46 4x4 amphibious reconnaissance vehicle, but using the ZIS-151 6x6 truck (also used in the BTR-152)[8] as its basis.[10] In use by the Soviet Union and its allies and client states the BAV was gradually replaced by the much larger tracked PTS amphibious vehicles.
ZIS-485 (BAV), Muzeum Wojska Polskiego, Warszawa
ZIS-485 (BAV) Soviet amphibious truck ( National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War , Kyiv)
DrzonówAutomotive Factory No. 2 Zavod imeni LikhachevaMoscowBody styleLayoutPlatformZIS-151ZIL-157BTR-152EngineTransmissionWheelbaseCurb weightNational Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World WarSovietamphibiousDnepropetrovskGAZ-46BryanskWarsaw PactMiddle EastLandwasserschlepperWayback Machine