MT-LB
Country: USSRManufacturer: Kharkiv Tractor Plant (KhTZ)
Armoured personnel carrierUSSR1970In service
Soviet light tracked multi-purpose armoured tractor and personnel carrier, in service from the early 1970s; amphibious and used as the basis for many specialised versions.
Armoured personnel carrier
ID — MT-LBUSSR · Kharkiv Tractor Plant (KhTZ)
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Identity
- Designation
- MT-LB
- Manufacturer
- Kharkiv Tractor Plant (KhTZ)
- Country
- USSR
- Category
- Armoured personnel carrier
Production & service
- Introduced
- 1970
- Status
- In service
- Units produced
- —
Specifications
- Combat weight
- —
- Crew
- 2
- Troops carried
- 11
- Main armament
- 7.62 mm PKT in small turret
- Secondary armament
- 12.7 mm Kord (some field mounts)
- Engine
- —
- Power-to-weight
- —
- Max road speed
- —
- Operational range
- —
- Length / width / height
- —
- Protection
- —
- Amphibious
- Yes
Historical profile
Designed as an artillery tractor, the MT-LB became one of the most common light armoured vehicles of the Soviet sphere and is widely used by both sides in the war in Ukraine.
Variants
MT-LBMT-LBV (wide tracks)MT-LBuMT-LB with ZU-23-29P149 Shturm-S carrier2S1 Gvozdika (chassis derivative)
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