Armoured personnel carrier · Land · GAZ · Soviet Union
Wikidata: Soviet armored personnel carrier
- Operators among the 24
- 7
- Active, across the 24
- 2,332
- On order, across the 24
- 0
- In service since
- 1959
Catalogue entry
- Designation
- BTR-60
- First flight or launch
- –
- In service
- 1959
- Retired
- –
- Generation
- –
- Unit cost (US dollars)
- not published in Wikidata
- Manufacturers
- GAZ, Kurgan Wheel Tractor Plant
- Also seen as
- Amphibious assault ship
- Wikidata classes
- combat vehicle family
- Identifiers
- Q159911 · factbase.org/sys/D87K62AX37 · Wikipedia
Dates, makers and classes from Wikidata (CC0); specifications stop at what Wikipedia and the manufacturer publish.
Operators
Each of the 24 nations that holds the platform, with its active count (variants summed). A nation that holds it with no published count shows no bar.
1,200
800
323
6
3
0
0
| Nation | Active | Reserve | On order | Variants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Korea | 1,200 | |||
| Russia | 800 | R-145BM/1/A | ||
| Türkiye | 323 | |||
| Ukraine | 6 | BTR-60PB BTR-60М TAB-71M | ||
| United States | 3 | |||
| Mexico | held | BTR-60 APC-70 | ||
| Iran | held | Shahram NRBC |
Transfers
Deliveries recorded by the SIPRI Arms Transfers Database, by year, to every recipient. Derived figures only; source: SIPRI Arms Transfers Database.
Recipients: Romania (1,838), Bulgaria (900), Egypt (650), Syria (650), Afghanistan (600), Ethiopia (550), Libya (500), Vietnam (500), Angola (499), Algeria (400), Türkiye (323), Iraq (250), North Korea (250), Iran (200), North Yemen (150), Cambodia (120), Finland (112), South Yemen (100), Ukraine (100), Mozambique (90), Nicaragua (82), India (56), Mali (54), Mongolia (50), Democratic Republic of the Congo (40), Botswana (30), Republic of the Congo (28), Northern Alliance (Afghanistan)* (20), Guinea-Bissau (15), Lithuania (15).
Related platforms
In the same category, in service within 15 years
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