Editing BTR-60 (section)

==IRL==
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The BTR-60 has long since retired from active service with the Russian military and almost all Soviet successors, but its rugged design has kept it in service with many poorer nations around the world. It is currently used for border patrols in Russia. By the 1980s the Red Army was replacing its BTR-60s with the BTR-70; the BTR-80 only entered production in 1986.

While the BTR-70 and BTR-80 have some improvements in mechanical reliability, better engines and transmissions, and so on over the BTR60, in terms of either stats or outward appearance there are only small details here and there to distinguish them from the BTR-60. The BTR-80A has the same 30mm autocannon as a 
BMP-2 shoehorned into its turret to replace the 14.5mm HMG, while the BTR90 simply has a BMP-2's entire turret stuck on top, complete with autocannon and laser-guided ATGM launcher. It is not certain whether either of these variants exist in significant numbers in the present day, IRL.

Currently the Russian-Ukrainian war is showing us how APCs fare on a modern day battlefield filled with ATGMs- which is to say, not every well. Unlike conflicts in the Middle East where the opposition had little to no air support and only access to unguided RPGs, the conflict in Ukraine is a conflict between two nations with access to state of the art munitions. This is exactly the scenario which Team Yankee simulates. In short the BTRs have proved to be frighteningly vulnerable. More than a few Russian commanders got to discover this while themselves being turned into borscht, which certainly calls into question the wisdom of using these vehicles as command and control vehicles. On the flipside of things, the Ukrainians have developed a homegrown BTR variant that they call the BTR-4, which is armed with redesigned turret featuring a 30mm cannon and a modern fire control system; video online appears to show one such vehicle effectively engaging infantry while mercilessly trolling a couple of Russian T-72s.

Thanks to the Russians not bothering to learn from their own military history, the sheer number of these vehicles being abandoned due to being stuck, broken down, or simply because the crew ran away is staggering. 

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