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Dontos · Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 12:35 am Post subject: ID Help

An aquaintance has asked me to ID the Russian APC in the photo. I believe it to be a modified MTLB. Any Ideas?

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The photo was taken in Antarctica in 1979.

Don

buglerbilly · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Jan 24, 2006 Posts: 147

It may be the MTLVB Arctic variant with .57m wide track for snow and improved flotation altho' I'm having a Devil of a time finding an image of this to confirm! Rolling Eyes

This is NOT a confirmed image but looks similar albeit the Track looks standard NOT the extra wide I've noted above (and seen on a Discovery programme on Siberian Tigers!)

Regards,

BUG

buglerbilly · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Jan 24, 2006 Posts: 147

MT-LBV The MT-LB can also be fitted with 565 mm wide tracks for operation in snow and swampy ground; it is then called the MT-LBV. This version has a ground pressure of 0.28 kg/cm{2}.

This definition would tend to indicate it's a category definition rather than a Type DEFINITION................

Regards,

BUG