They’re cramped as shit, have awful suspension and seats, not air conditioned (and not even ventilated really), and you’re safer from mines on top due them not being designed to be survivable from mines. The protection and comfort also varies greatly between BTR type, there being a big difference between BTR-60 and BTR-80. Although the BTR-80 isn’t exactly comfortable, or safe from anything bigger than 7.62 nato ball.
When people ride on top, they’re ether imitating what they’ve seen or been told by others, or there is a decision being made: That the vulnerability to mines on the road, danger of being inside the vehicle when it gets hit with a HEAT charge, or the fatigue of being so cramped and overheated, isn’t worth the protection from mortar shrapnel.
Yeah, in otherwords they are junk vehicles that don’t do the basic job they are supposed to and that russia is too full of bullshitters to have addressed the obvious critical failures of for many decades.
They’re cramped as shit, have awful suspension and seats, not air conditioned (and not even ventilated really), and you’re safer from mines on top due them not being designed to be survivable from mines. The protection and comfort also varies greatly between BTR type, there being a big difference between BTR-60 and BTR-80. Although the BTR-80 isn’t exactly comfortable, or safe from anything bigger than 7.62 nato ball.
When people ride on top, they’re ether imitating what they’ve seen or been told by others, or there is a decision being made: That the vulnerability to mines on the road, danger of being inside the vehicle when it gets hit with a HEAT charge, or the fatigue of being so cramped and overheated, isn’t worth the protection from mortar shrapnel.
Yeah, in otherwords they are junk vehicles that don’t do the basic job they are supposed to and that russia is too full of bullshitters to have addressed the obvious critical failures of for many decades.