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Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b
I've been in a BTR-60PB -- cramped as a mother! (And I'm of below-average height.) And you really feel the lack of a roof hatch in the turret; turret visibility sucks. I couldn't even drive one; I never learned how to drive a stick, let alone having a vehicle with manual transmission and two engines. And going for a short joy-ride in one off-road will make you a bit queasy.
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Didn't the Soviets have height limitations for their Motorized Rifle units just like they did for their tankers? I forget what they were exactly but I think around 5 feet 6 inches or so??
Still, the Soviet design of armored vehicles as a whole suggests to me they really didn't plan on providing their crews and mechanized infantry with much gear other than a "basic" load, which I hear wasn't much.
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