BTR-70

Creators:

OZZA

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Specifications:

Crew:

Driver; Gunner; Commander; 6x Troopers;

Top speed:

81 km/h

Armament:

1x 14.5mm KPVT machine gun; 1x 7.62mm PKT machine gun;

Brick count:

1390

Cost:

159,235$

How to use:

Lights - L; K; Horn - H; Front hatches & view hatches (driver/commander) - B; X; Firing ports (troop seats) - B; Commander periscope control - ALT mode; Swimming mode activates automatically upon entering the water.

Historical info:

BTR-70 have its roots in GAZ-50 project - an attempt of GAZ (Gorky automobile factory) to create a cheaper, wheeled alternative to BMP-1 using BTR-60 chassis. While project and trials was successful, military didn't see a need to adopt it. But at the same time military was not exactly satisfied with BTR-60 performance - that's why they suggesteed to put a turret from it on GAZ-50 (with a few minor changes to the hull). The vehicle end up being adopted as BTR-70, which essentially was a BTR-60 chassis and armament with a new hull and engines.

The vehicle saw extensive use during Afghanistan war by soviet army, which showed several issues with the BTR-70. Some of those were fixed in years of production, but main one - two synced gasoline engines - was fixed only with the introduction of BTR-80.

BTR-70 was also adopted by different Warsaw Pact countries, such as DDR, Romania and Hungary. Romania even started a license production under the name of TAB-77 and made several own vehicles based on it.

After the USSR fall, many ex-soviet countries kept the BTR-70 in their inventory, but the main user was the Ukraine. It didn't take long for them to see action again - ukrainian peacekeepers was sent to ex-Yugoslavia as part of UN mission and was equipped with mid/late production variants of BTR-70.

BTR-70 is still being used actively around the world and despite it being over 50 years old - it still gets the job done (especially if the vehicle is well maintained and saw some modernisation).