BTR-60 is the first vehicle in a series of Soviet eight-wheeled armoured personnel carriers (APCs). 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-60 was a revolutionary design for its time. It had a non-standard layout for an APC; the crew compartment was in the front, the troop compartment in the middle and the engine compartment in the rear. This meant that, while the BTR-60 didn't share some of the weaknesses that other APCs had, it had several disadvantages of its own.
| Country | USSR |
| Vehicle type | armored personnel carrier |
| Crew | 2 + 14 |
| Production years | 1959 - 1976 |
| Engine | 2 x carburettor engine with a capacity of 2 x 90 hp |
| Fuel tank capacity | 290 l |
| length/width/height | 7,56 m / 2,83 m / 2,31 m |
| Clearance | 0,47 m |
| Mass | 10,3 t |
| Speed | 80 km/h (in the water: 10 km/h) |
| Reach | 500 km |
| 1 x machine gun KPWT cal. 14,5 mm (500 bullets) |
| 1 x machine gun PKT cal. 7,62 mm (2000 bullets) |
