Armored vehicles of the USSR: R-145 BM Chayka (Seagull) – command vehicle. The mobile complex, mounted on the basis of the armored personnel carrier BTR-60PA (produced by GAZ), and including a dual simplex variant of VHF radio station R-111, VHF radio station R-123 MT, HF radio station P-130 M, call device P-012 M, a set of antenna-mast devices and a power supply system.
Vadim Zadorozhny’s Museum of Equipment, Moscow
Years of production: 1964-1987
Country of origin: USSR
Issued: no data
Weight: 10.5 t
Power: 2х90 hp
Speed: 80 km / h
Crew: 5 people
The BTR-60 is the first vehicle in a series of Soviet eight-wheeled armoured personnel carriers (APCs). It was developed in the late 1950s as a replacement for the BTR-152 and was seen in public for the first time in 1961.
