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TAB-63
TAB-63 ( Romanian: ''Transportor Amfibiu Blindat model 1963'', Amphibious Armoured Personnel Carrier model 1963) was an experimental Romanian prototype of an armoured personnel carrier. Basically, the Romanian engineers used the hull of a Soviet The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ... BTR-60P armoured personnel carrier and installed a number of Romanian auto parts in it. Although the design never entered production, the prototype represented the predecessor of the TAB-71 model. History In April 1963, the National Defense Council decided to develop a prototype of an armoured personnel carrier equipped with Romanian automotive components. These auto parts were successively installed in the hull of a Soviet BTR-60P (also known as the GAZ-49) at different factories of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TAB (Armoured Personnel Carrier)
TAB (Romanian language, Romanian: Transportor Amfibiu Blindat, translated ''Amphibious Armoured Personnel Carrier'') is the Romanian military designation of armoured personnel carriers. The TAB APCs were based on the Russian BTR (vehicle), BTR series until the early 1990s, with several improvements, including better diesel engines. After 1990, new TAB designs have been developed, such as the RN-94 and the Saur series, but none of these designs entered mass production. Models * TAB-63 - prototype, predecessor of TAB-71 * TAB-71 - based on BTR-60. O'Malley, T. J., Hutchins, Ray, pag. 48 1872 copies manufactured. In 2010, Romania owned 846 TAB-71 transporters, 375 being in use. Some transferred to Moldova. The TAB-71 vehicles will be decommissioned, scrapped and gradually replaced by the future TBT 8×8 (:ro:Saur 3, Saur 3) armoured personnel carrier, the development of which was started on March 17, 2011. * :es:TAB-77, TAB-77 - based on BTR-70 * TABC-79 - 4×4 version of :es:TAB-77, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
