Big Bang Ricochet 026: Russias BTR-60 APC (d20)
Introduced in 1961¸ the BTR-60 was Russia's first truly modern armored personnel carrier. It would eventually incorporated a range of impressive features¸ such as a turret for protection against enemy infantry¸ drive train redundancy complete with two engines to make it difficult to stop¸ and one of the biggest troop compartments to ever grace an APC¸ holding 16 men! By the time construction of BTR-60's ceased in the 1980's¸ the BTR-60 had become one of the most common armored fighting vehicles in the world¸ surpassing even the Sherman tank's 50¸000+ unit production run¸ and being second only to the M113 Gavin's 130¸000+ units worldwide. This issue of Big Bang Ricochet details more than two dozen variants of the BTR-60¸ with stats suitable for most of them. In addition¸ we provide a new Turret entry for the Ukrainian BAU-23x2 Fighting Module. We also include a Big Bang entry for the 2A7 series 23mm automatic cannon¸ covering all three variants of the weapon¸ plus five types of ammunition. 8 pages of content.