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BTR-70
Sign in to saveThe BTR-70 is an eight-wheeled armored personnel carrier () originally developed by the Soviet Union during the late 1960s under the manufacturing code GAZ-4905. On August 21, 1972, it was accepted into Soviet service and would later be widely exported. Large quantities were also produced under license in Romania as the TAB-77.
Key facts
- Weapon.name
- BTR-70
- Weapon.image
- 2015-05-05. Репетиция парада Победы 086.jpg
- Weapon.image_size
- 310
- Weapon.caption
- BTR-70 on parade in Donetsk, 2015
- Weapon.origin
- Soviet Union
- Weapon.type
- Armoured personnel carrier
- Weapon.service
- 1972–present
- Weapon.used_by
- See Operators
- Weapon.is_vehicle
- yes
- Weapon.crew
- 3 (+7 passengers)
- Weapon.length
- 7.535 m
- Weapon.width
- 2.80 m
- Weapon.height
- 2.32 m
- Weapon.weight
- 11.5 tonnes
- Weapon.armour
- 9 mm (front)7 mm (sides)
- Weapon.primary_armament
- 14.5 mm KPVT machine gun or 12.7 mm DShK
- Weapon.secondary_armament
- 7.62 mm PKT machine gun
- Weapon.engine
- 2× gasoline ZMZ-4905
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Wikidata facts
- Mass
- 11.5
- Image
- BTR70 002.jpg
- Height
- 2.32
- Width
- 2.80
- Length
- 7.53
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Article
19 sectionsContents
- Development History
- Equipment
- Variants
- Soviet Union/Russian Federation
- Ukraine
- East-Germany
- Slovakia/Belarus
- Belarus
- Azerbaijan
- Romania
- Sudan
- Combat history
- Operators
- Current operators
- Former operators
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
The BTR-70 is an eight-wheeled armored personnel carrier () originally developed by the Soviet Union during the late 1960s under the manufacturing code GAZ-4905. On August 21, 1972, it was accepted into Soviet service and would later be widely exported. Large quantities were also produced under license in Romania as the TAB-77.
The BTR-70 was developed as a potential successor for the earlier BTR-60 series of Soviet wheeled armored personnel carriers, specifically the BTR-60PB, which it most closely resembled. It evolved out of an earlier, unsuccessful project known as the GAZ-50 to design a new wheeled infantry fighting vehicle on the chassis and drive train of a BTR-60PB. It initially received the NATO reporting name BTR M1970.