AT 1915 year Izhora Plant built a series of armored constructions captain VA Mgebrova for the royal army. The basis for these combat vehicles were the three types of chassis car “Renault”, lorry “White” and truck “IZOTTO-Fraskini”. All armored vehicles “Mgebrov-Renault” They were constructed by assembly scheme with front engine, front steering wheels and rear drive axle But special interest is the construction of an armored car on the chassis of the French car “Renault”, whose radiator was located behind the engine. This circumstance is taken into account and VA. Mgebrov, designed hull of them differed strongly beveled front part, which resembles a sharp wedge.
photo armored car “Mgebrov-Renault”
Security of this machine is greatly increased in comparison with other types of armored vehicles at the expense of well thought-out configuration of the housing, Fitting bronelistov under great angles, and use of rounded armor parts. Bullet, punching vertical armor plate, ricochet from the inclined planes armor-housing, made of thick steel sheets rolled from CrNi 4 to 7 mm are riveted to the frame of the profile of the angle steel fixed on the chassis frame. To a large extent the choice of appropriate angles of inclination was due to typical for all models “Renault” those years positioned the radiator behind the engine.
In the department of management, located in the middle part of the body, I am sitting right driver, and the left - the second crew member. They provide an overview of the two narrow peepholes in the sloping front plate, covered top bronekozyrkami, and two small inspection hatch in the side of the bevel bookings management department for planting in the armored vehicle were provided two doors, one had a trapezoid shape and is at the left side of the hull, a second door was rectangular and was in a cylindrical aft crew compartment.
Above the fighting compartment was set rotating circular cylindrical tower armed 7.62 mm machine gun “Maksim”. On its roof with an offset to the stern observation turret was mounted, from which the commander in a combat situation could lead circular observation of the terrain. The rotation of the turret with a machine gun was carried out manually using the helm.
In the engine compartment, located in front of the machine, It was installed 55.2-kilowatt (75 l. from ) Carburetor inline four-cylinder engine with liquid cooling “Renault” with a working volume 8490 cm3, which allowed armored vehicle with live weight 3,5 t develop at top speed highway 55 kmh. In this way, Mgebrova armored car was the most fleet of armored vehicles of all domestic.
Access to the engine for repair and maintenance ensure maintenance hatches in the walls and roof of the engine compartment. The cooling air is supplied to the radiator through the openings, located on both sides of the upper part of the engine compartment and covered with protective bronekozhuhami. The rear-wheel drive (4×2) Coil suspension with semi-elliptic leaf springs used slitsovannye bulletproof wheels with tires, equipped with armored caps. The front wheels were uni-directional, rear - Dual, wings over them no.
For driving in the dark armored vehicle was equipped with a large spotlight, mounted in the middle of the flip cover frontal sheet engine compartment hatch.
A little later changed Mgebrov machines armor protection, to reduce the load on the chassis instead of one large tower on the roof of the fighting compartment installed two small, armed with a 7.62 mm machine guns “Maksim”. This resulted in an increase in the number of crew per person. The towers are arranged diagonally rotated independently of one another, with each of them provided a fire in the sector 270 degrees. The whole project. A Mgebrova based car “Renault” Was built 16 armored vehicles, who entered the army at the end of 1915 of the year.
The performance characteristics of armored Mgebrov Reno
combat weight, t: 3,5
Crew, pers.: 3 (a mono-tower); 4 (two-towered)
Manufacturer: Ižorskij Bureau
years of production: 1915 — 1916
years of operation: 1916 - after 1929
The number of issued, PC.: 12
Major operators: Russian empire; Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
dimensions
body Length, mm: 5100
housing width, mm: 2320
Height, mm: 2300
armor
Type broni: rolled steel
housing forehead, mm / city.: 7
body board, mm / city.: 7
housing feed, mm / city.: 7
Bottom, mm: 5
corps roof, mm: 5
tower forehead, mm / city.: 7
tower feed, mm / city.: 7
tower roof, mm: 7
weaponry
Shotgun: 1-2 × 7,62-mm machine gun "Maxim"
Engine
engine's type: «Renault», carburettor, row, 4-cylinder, liquid cooling, working volume 8490 cm³
Engine power, l. from.: 75
Kolёsnaya formula: 4 × 2
suspension type: dependent, leaf springs
