page_title: BTR-60
section_title: Romania
hierarchical_section_title: BTR-60 / Variants / Romania
caption_attribution_description: A Soviet BTR-60PB APC (left) and a Romanian TAB-71 APC (right) on display at "King Ferdinand" National Military Museum.
context_page_description: The BTR-60 is the first vehicle in a series of Soviet eight-wheeled armoured personnel carriers. 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. BTR stands for Bronetransporter.
context_section_description: TAB-71 (TAB stands for transportor amfibiu blindat – "amphibious armored carrier") – Romanian license -produced variant of BTR-60PB fitted with two more powerful SR-225 gasoline engines developing 140 hp (104 kW) each instead of the old GAZ-40Ps. It is equipped with additional periscopes, a protected sight on the left side of the turret and a front-mounted winch with a capacity of 5.5 tonnes.
  TAB-71M – Modernized TAB-71 fitted with two Saviem 797-05 diesel engines developing 130 hp (97 kW) each from the TAB-77 APC in a larger engine compartment and "suicide hatches" between the 2nd and 3rd wheels. It also has horizontal engine decks and exhausts. It is also known as TAB-72.
  TAB-71A R-1450 – Command version of the TAB-71 with additional whip antennas.
  TAB-71A R-1451 – Signals vehicle with unarmed turret which has a small crane mounted on the front used to remove the heavy batteries. It also has a 1 kW generator on the hull roof. Radio equipment consists of the R-1451 and the R-401M.
  TAB-71A R-1452 – Externally identical to the former but with R-1452 set.
  TAB-71AR (AR stands for aruncător de bombe) – Self-propelled mortar platform armed with M-37M 82 mm mortar (100 rounds). The Soviet mortar might be replaced with a more modern Romanian design like the Model 77. The turret has been removed and the vehicle has a flat roof on the personnel compartment with circular two-piece hatch opening to sides. There's a mount for a machine gun on the rear of the mortar position.
  TERA-71L (tractor de evacuare şi reparat auto) – ARV equipped with a crane and a dozer blade.
caption: A Soviet BTR-60PB APC (left) and a Romanian TAB-71 APC (right) on display at "King Ferdinand" National Military Museum.
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