BTR-152V1 With DSHK Machine-Gun 1/35 SKIF 240

The BTR-152 was the basic equipment of Soviet mechanized divisions in the 1950s and 1960s. It was also used in interventions in Hungary in 1956 and in Czechoslovakia in the suppression of the Prague Spring in 1968. The BTR-152 was also widely exported to the Warsaw Pact countries (including Poland) and to the Third World countries.

The BTR-152 wheeled APC was characterized by very well-shaped armor, which favored the ricochet of small-caliber weapons, as well as the favorable location of manholes for landing troops, which were located at the rear of the vehicle. Another advantage was the mounting of the 10RT-12 radio (on some cars). A major disadvantage turned out to be the exposed landing compartment, which in fact made it impossible for the BTR-152 vehicles to operate in the face of weapons of mass destruction, as well as the completely exposed position of a soldier operating the main armament of the vehicle: a 7.62 mm machine gun