indonesianmilitaryvehichle - BTR-60 PANZER was first used in armed conflicts when used by the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 and the border conflict with the PRC in 1969. APC is also used by the Soviet Union during the war in Afghanistan 1980-1988. As the Soviet successor states, Russia is also using the BTR-60 in the 1999-2009 conflict in Chechnya. Given the many countries that operate BTR-60, the APC is also widely used in a number of armed conflicts around the world. In addition to the above armed conflict, BTR 60 is also used in the 1967 Six Day War, Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, the Yom Kippur War in 1973, the Lebanese civil war, the Iraq-Iran war, the Gulf War in 1991, and many more. A number of BTR-60 is also still used in battle when the U.S. invaded Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003.
BTR-60 was developed in the late 1950s as a replacement for the BTR-152 APC. Vehicle personnel carrier is made of 25,000 units in various variants from 1960 until 1976. A total of more than 60 countries registered as users of this and thousands of units APC BTR-60 is still in operation to this day.
Varian early BTR-60 still uses the open personnel compartment, the same as the BTR-152.But in the next variant the BTR-60 personnel compartment be closed. Armament BTR-60 also increased. If the variant is quite early APC armed with submachine guns caliber 7.62 mm, then the next variant of the BTR-60 is equipped with a type BPU-1 turret and armed with heavy machine gun 14.5 mm caliber. Turret and the same weapon used in the BRDM-2 armored vehicles.
Specification BTR-60 PB
Crew: 2 + 14
Armament: Main: 1 x 14.5mm
machine gun Co-axial: 1 x 7.62mm
machine gun Combat weight: 10,300 kg
Length: 7:56 m
Width: 2.82 m
Height: 2:31 m
Powerpack: 2 x 90 hp petrol engines GAZ-49B
Maximum road speed: 80 km / h Water
Maximum speed: 10 km / h Range: 500 miles