Part Two of my field guide to the vehicles and equipment of the late Cold War Soviet Army! Notes and corrections under the break!


Note: The intro is stuttery because of the poor quality of connection during upload. I wasn't aware of this until it went live, but that's life. See the version hosted on New Old Stock's channel for the silky smooth 80's goodness! Link:    • Video  

Note 2: I forgot (completely) the Romanian TAB79! This is another NonSoviet Warsaw Pact BRDM equivalent, this time created by taking the Romanian TAB77 (a modified BTR70 with a home grown turret) and shortening it to make something akin to a BRDM2. Its recognition features are: TAB77 turret (like a BTR/BRDM turret with a big circular sight on the port side), BTR70 style chassis, and 4 wheel (2 per side in a 4x4 arrangement) layout. It is amphibious and armed with a 14.5x114 main gun and 7.62x54r coaxial MG in a high angle fire turret. I'll probably make a video of "vehicles I forgot in the main series" as an appendix after the postsoviet developments video.

Corrections:
23:19 23:57 the top vehicle is a TAB77, distinguished by the big circular sight on the port side of the high angle of fire turret. The bottom is a BTR70M, which has the turret, engine, and transmission of a BTR80. This completely slipped past me in editing, so that's on me, but the slide is just to show general configuration of BTR70.

The BTR80A shown is actually a BTR82A, which has a stabilizer, one less firing port on the right side, the newer IR illuminator, and note some BTR80A have the front firing port for commander removed.

BMD4 was adopted, but it's produced in such small numbers I thought it was a prototype/pilot run. According to IISS Military Balance 2020 they only have 60 in service

FUG APC doesn't have a BRDM turret, it's it's own turret but looks and performs like a BRDM turret.

BRDM2 NBC recce still has the 7.62mm MG as seen here: https://i.imgur.com/UcdtItC.png

BMP1 appears not to have received the SACLOS SAGGER / AT3c SAGGERC/9M14P MalyutkaP.

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A noncomprehensive list of sources is as follows:

The articles by Tankograd ( https://thesovietarmourblog.blogspot.... )
Andrei Tarasenko's work at http://BTVT.info/ and http://btvt.narod.ru/
Various images are sourced from the US Department of Defense, Russian Ministry of Defense or other official publications.
Other sources are available upon request.

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