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Originally Posted by Mobhack
If anyone really needs them - perhaps put some in the overflow OOB (Red??) for the Russians. Probably only relevant to a scenario designer for "flavour", as who would actually buy one of those past about 1972?. If I'm playing the Soviets in the 60s and 70s, the Egyptians or whatever, I will always thake the BTR-60s as those are fast and have a capable 14.5mm cannon for dealing with "thin tin" APCs and scout cars, whereas the BTR-50 is slooow and usually just has a rifle calibre MG.
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There is no need to add them to Red as they already exist there and in a number of OOB's to the end of 2025 .Cuba for one and Egypt for another. In total, 13 nations still use the BTR-50 to the end of 2025.
- Egypt
- Syria
- Vietnam
- Afghanistan
- Turkey
- Libya
- Cuba
- Cambodia
- Finland
- Sudan
- Zimbabwe
- Yemen
- and now Red
In the Red OOB they only ran to 2005 but I just changed that to 2025 but for scenario design, all that's needed to get something like that is to simply change the date of the scenario to when they existed then after buying them re-adjust the date forward.
There are a lot of uses for them that would not need to involve being right at the front line... arty tractors, munitions carriers.... lots of uses
If someone needed one with a turret,use the Polish TOPAS 2AP.
That said, if they do start showing up in quantity in Ukraine I can put them in the Russian OOB but for now "borrow"
EDIT
It occurred to me that a simple solution was available and it was. In this case I got lucky-----The BTR-50s are the ONLY vehicle in the Heavy APC UC in the Russian OOB and the formations that use the BTR-50s only exist during the same time as the units and if there is no formation the game does not offer units for players to buy so it was a simple matter of taking the last BTR-50 and extending the end date to 2025 then building a formation for it from March 2023- Dec 2025
So......... from 01/55-12/78 there are a number of BTR-50 formations and now from March 2023 there are formations that offer them for use in the game again and a unit slot was not used .
Now......... if they upgrade them this idea goes out the window but I am betting not