This is the first vehicle in a series of Soviet eight-wheeled armoured personnel carriers, developed in the late 1950s as a replacement for the BTR-152 and was seen first time in public in 1965 with the small turret armed with 14.5 mm KPVT heavy machine gun. The welded steel boat-shaped hull provides protection against small arms fire and shrapnel. The crew compartment is in the front, troop compartment in the middle and engine compartment in the rear. The crew consists of the driver, seat on the left, and the commander, whose seat is on the right. The troop compartment is behind the crew compartment and can transport up to fourteen fully equipped soldiers. It has three firing ports on each upper side of the hull through which the infantry being transported can fire at the enemy with their personal weapons. The vehicle is propelled by two six cylinder petrol engines which deliver 115 hp (86 kW) to two axles which is driven separately. It is fully amphibious and moves in water propelled by a single water-jet mounted at the rear of the hull. All models come with an infrared searchlight.

FAPLA BTR-60PB Armoured Personnel Carrier

1/300th scale miniature supplied and painted by Paul Gouws of the Peninsula Wargames Group

Specifications
Weight	11.4 tonnes
Length	7.56 m
Width	2.825 m
Height	2.31 m
Crew	3 + 14 passengers
Armor	Welded steel 7 mm hull upper front 9 mm hull lower front 7 mm hull sides 5 mm hull upper rear 7 mm hull lower rear 5 mm hull bottom 7 mm hull roof 7 mm turret
Primary armament	14.5mm KPV heavy machine gun (500 rounds)
Secondary armament	7.62 mm PKT tank coaxial machine gun (3,000 rounds)
Engine	2×6-cyl. gasoline GAZ-49B 115 hp (86 kW) each
Power/weight	20.2 hp/tonne (15.1 kW/tonne)
Suspension	wheeled 8×8
Operational Rnge	500 km
Speed	80 km/h on road 10 km/h on water

For more detail on the BTR-60, see Wikipedia.com