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Originally Posted by Suhiir
As Mobhack pointed out, the manufacturer often base troop carry capacity on troops no field gear, thus the "real" carry capacity is often less.
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As I've said, the manual, published by the Soviet MoD in 1963, states, that both variants (P and PK) can carry 20 soldiers with full combat equipment. I have an impression, that you think, that for some reason I'm lying to you, trying to convince you to change BTR-50PK's load
In any case, I'm attaching the first and 4th page of manual - I didn't produce this document myself.
As for
http://www.globalsecurity.org/milita...n0534/lsn2.htm - though the capacity refers explicitly to BTR-50P, they don't say, that BTR-50PK had lower capacity. BTR-50PK was definitely more popular variant, being a mainstay of tank divisions, replaced by BMP-1, not BTR-60. By the way, standard armament according to manual was 7.62mm SGMB, not 12.7 DShK.
As for
http://www.morozov.com.ua/eng/body/btr50.php - well, crew of 10 is an apparent error, and I don't even know what they meant by "crew". Maybe if each trooper had comfortable shockproof individual seat, it would be 10 indeed. The Czechs carried 16 men inside (including crew).
I'm not saying, that I KNOW how many troops BTR-50PK could accommodate - I can only quote a first-hand source, while lower number is only a supposition. Do what you think is right.
Regards
Michal