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The interactive exhibition "Legend of the Iron Knight" was opened on Friday in the Motor Museum in Riga, which has the opportunity to see the Latvian Army vehicle – the Imanta armored car.
The "Legend of the Iron Knight" exhibition is only 30 original parts that were recently discovered by the survivors of the Latvian Weapons Armament "Imanta", which, through specially designed latest 3LCD laser technology and 3D holographic projection, allows you to revive and see the armored model in just four different period.
The Imanta weapon, known as the Iron Knights, experienced four lives-two peace and two wars, including witnesses of the independence struggle in Latvia. During the exhibition, his visitors can survive the historical adventures of the Imanta Armored personnel – participation in battles, renewal, change of owners, changes in functions and other events for more than 20 years with the help of special modern technologies.
Armament "Imanta" is an armored vehicle of the British carmaker "Sheffield-Simplek". He came to the territory of Latvia in 1919 in the composition of the Bolshevik Soviet Army, and the Latvian army won armored vehicles as a combat trophy and seized them from the Bolsheviks.
In the fall of 1919, Sheffield-Simplek described the armored vehicle as "Imanta" and this armor was involved in the battles against Bermond in the Latvian army. After the struggle for independence, the arms of the Latvian Army "Imanta" was held on the agenda and participated in military maneuvers and parades in the 20th and 30th centuries. During the Second World War, in 1941, the machine gun for Imanta was captured by German forces and killed. So far some parts of armored vehicles have been preserved.
The interactive exhibition "Legend of the Iron Knight" will allow its observer to experience a return on time. Everyone will have the opportunity not only to see the vision of a car at different times, but also to enjoy the sense of presence in the early 20th century. a story of a series of wars, a period of peace and a change of power, "said the author of the exhibition's idea and chief curator Agris Schmitz.
Parts of the Imanta armored vehicle were buried in 2017 during an expedition organized by the Riga Museum at a home in Liepna. Father Housewives, Daumant Bejon, the legendary armored vehicles from the Latvian army, unfortunately, already lit up, watching themselves with their own eyes. Currently, Imanta is the only army of the Latvian armored vehicles, whose remains have been found. The rest, as it is known to experts in the Riga Museum, was completely destroyed in battles.
"More than 30 revealed details, and only some historical photographs are currently the only evidence of history that gives an idea of how the weapons looked. Unfortunately, no historical archive so far has been able to find the exact drawings of the Imanta armored vehicle, but today's technology is able to creates a miracle, enabling us to get to know the exact shape, structure and technical parameters of the Imantas model, while letting them be the eyewitness of historical events, "Schmit said.
The opening of the exhibition was attended by Defense Minister Raimonds Bergmanis (ZZS).
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