The 1960s-vintage BTR-60 wheeled armored personnel carrier is an armored personnel carrier mostly in name only.
Which is why Bulgaria’s big new donation to Ukraine of a hundred locally-upgraded BTR-60s isn’t the exciting news it might seem to be on its face. A BTR-60 is better than the alternative if the alternative is a pickup truck. But it’sThat Ukraine would even bother inducting a hundred old BTRs speaks to the Ukrainian armed forces’ bottomless appetite for combat vehicles as Russia’s wider war on Ukraine grinds into its 19th month..
The BTRs are likely to be 11-ton BTR-60PB-MD1s that have the same eight-wheel, 17-person chassis and turret-mounted 14.5-millimeter machine gun as other BTR-60s, but also boast uniquely Bulgarian modifications including a better night-vision and a new 250-horsepower Cummins diesel engine. But the early-2000s enhancements did nothing to improve the BTR-60’s greatest weakness: its nine-millimeter steel armor. Protection so flimsy that a determined machine-gunner easily could knock out a BTR.
The Bulgarian army acquired around 150 BTR-60PB-MD1s. Today they’re in storage. Transferring a hundred of the wheeled APCs wouldn’t impact Bulgaria’s own defense capabilities, the government concluded. That old BTR models are vulnerable is obvious in the statistics. Ukraine went to war in February 2022 with just a handful of BTR-60s, reactivated scores of old stored BTRs mostly to add mobility to reserve and national guard formations and
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