Advantages of BTR?

What are the tactical, strategic and logistical advantages of BTR?

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  1. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Purpose of a BTR was to replace soft skinned trucks or riding on the sides of tanks in battle

    Its mostly a success in that regard

  2. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Its an IFV. An old under-armored IFV, but it does what every IFV does.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      its not an IFV it is a LAV

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        These are meaningless distinctions. All of them are APCs, IFVs as a concept was only invented to distinguish existing APCs from the newer APCs that categorically outgunned them, and LAV is just another name for APC.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          IFVs and APCs are not interchangeable terms and had different doctrine in the cold war
          M113s would act independently after dropping off its dismounts while the M2 bradley would stay close to its dismounts

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            IFVs and APCs aren't interchangeable but the difference is an autocannon and/or some ATGMs. IFVs should have more armor but that's far from universal, the BMD series are IFVs armored with room temperature butter. If you put a 30mm turret and some armor on an M113 the result can be described as an IFV. It's not a "good" IFV, but it's a vehicle designed to fight with the infantry rather than dropping them off and running. And if you accept that an M113 with a 30mm hat is an IFV, why is a Stryker or BTR with a 30mm hat not an IFV?

  3. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    the btr-70 and btr-80 is supposed to be amphibious, yet i have never once seen that tried in this war. clearly no one trusts the soviet gaskets and seals to keep water out

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      More like nobody trusts gaskets after 30 years of shitty Russian maintenence, during the Soviet times the gaskets were probably just fine.

  4. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    BTR-60, -70, and -80 are wheeled APCs, BTR-82A and the Ukranian BTR series are wheeled IFVs. They serve roughly the same role as Stryker, and equip motor rifle formations. It's better than sitting in a truck, it's an armored vehicle with a gun, it's protected against small arms fire and splinters. If the option is a BTR-60 or a Toyota you'd probably take the shitbox BTR.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      stryker and BTR are not IFVs
      you even initally called it a "wheeled APC"

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Not that anon but "wheeled IFV" is the best descriptor given their role, they do a bit more than an APC, they're just not as well armored as other IFVs.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          so they're a LAV

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            "Light Armored Vehicle" is completely meaningless marketing speak that could accurately describe anything from an MRAP to an M113 to an A-10 Warthog

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            LAV is a vehicle name, not a role, that's like calling IFVs Bradley's. LAV also doesn't describe what they do, "wheeled IFV" or maybe "light IFV" are much better descriptors. If you want to shoehorn your own classification in at least make it descriptive and not just marketing name of some vehicle.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        If you put a 30mm gun on an APC while still carrying dismounts you've created an IFV. BTR-80 and base Stryker are APCs; BTR-4E and Stryker Dragoon are wheeled IFVs. You don't put a 30mm gun on something that doesn't fight, and a vehicle that carries infantry and fights alongside them is called an IFV.

  5. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    its made by slavic untermensch so its terrible

  6. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    early ones are absolute fricking trash
    >supposed to be a troop carrier
    >doors are tiny deathtrap doors in between the wheels
    no wonder almost all pics of soldiers traveling by BTR have them sitting on top

  7. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    boochi the wiener

  8. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Bucephalus is for SEXO.

    Simple as.

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