BTR-70 Armored Personnel Carrier

Description
The BTR-70 is an eight-wheeled armored personnel carrier originally developed during the late 1970s and fielded by the Warsaw Pact and allies beginning in the early 1980s. Introduced as a successor to the earlier BTR-60, it most closely resembles a BTR-60PB. Other improvements include heavier armor plating and tires less prone to puncture. In other respects, the vehicle is very similar to the BTR-60PB, with a more powerful (although still fuel hungry) engine configuration and armament of a primary heavy machine gun and secondary PKT machine gun on a roof mounted turret.

The vehicle's designers moved the side troop doors. On the vehicle's predecessor, these doors were located above the beltline between the second and third pairs of wheels on both sides of the vehicle. On the BTR-70, the doors are below the beltline between the second and third pairs of wheels. As Soviet doctrine calls for unloading troops from the vehicle while it is in motion, the door location increases the chances that a soldier will be pulled under a wheel and injured or killed, although it also means that the troops can get out quicker while exposing them less to the enemy.

Like the vehicle's predecessor it is fully amphibious with minimal preparation. A licensed Romanian copy was designated the TAB-77 and had various improvements and changes to make local production easier, including a better turret and different engines.

Specifications

 * -- *************** BTR ***************

[vehicle_btr] $spawn						= "lost alpha\vehicles\vehicle_btr" class 						= SCRPTCAR cform 						= skeleton visual 						= physics\vehicles\btr\veh_btr_u_01.ogf actor_visual 				= physics\vehicles\btr\veh_btr_u_01.ogf script_binding			   = bind_car.bind ;--bind_vehicles.initialize has_trunk					= true fuel_tank					= 400 dist_use_fuel				= 2000 fuel_consumption		   = 0.0010 trunk_capacity			   = 500 actor_dist_plane		   = 3.90, 5.05 actor_dist_center		   = 4.87, 6.02 exhaust_pipe_dist		   = 2.26, 2.90 inv_name					= btr_name ;--btr-70 inv_name_short			   = btr_name ;--btr-70 icon						= ui_veh_btr description					= btr_descr ;--enc_vehicles_btr-70 cost						= 500000