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BTR-70

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.

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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Article

19 sections

Contents

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 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.