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Old May 9th, 2007, 03:10 AM
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Default The Ukranian BMT-72 - Insanity.

Those crazy Ukrainians took a T-72, lengthened the hull, and turned it into a sort of 5-man heavy infantry fighting vehicle, retaining the 125mm gun and missile armament.

Linka

Diagram, you can see the new hatches for the troops

Close up of new hatches

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Oh my god, they did it with a T-80 too!

Linka to the BTMP-84

The BTMP-84 is based on the chassis of the T-84 main battle tank. This retains the two-person turret armed with a 125mm gun fed by an automatic loader.

The specific feature of the vehicle design is that there is a troop compartment for five infantry soldiers.

A door at the rear of the vehicle opens to the left, steps fold downwards and the hatch above this is raised to allow the troops to rapidly leave the vehicle.

A firing port is provided in either side of the troop compartment, as are roof hatches.
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