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What do these two vehicles have in common?In Service since 1972 – The BTR-70 is an eight-wheeled armored personnel carrier originally developed by the Soviet Union during the late 1960s under the manufacturing code GAZ-4905.In Service since 1962 – The BRDM-2 is an amphibious armoured scout car designed and developed in the Soviet Union. It was intended to replace the older BRDM-1, and has improved amphibious capabilities and better armament compared to its predecessor. Mainarmament14.5 mm KPVT heavy machine gun Secondaryarmament7.62 mm PKT coaxial general-purpose machine gun Exactly ! They use the same Guns/Tower. The armament is the same as on the BTR-60PB armored personnel carrier; a KPVT heavy machine gun with a coaxial 7.62 mm PKT all-purpose machine gun as a secondary weapon, both in a small conical BPU-1 turret mounted on the hull in a central position above the belly wheels. BPU-1 turret is the name of this tower. And as you have read, this turret was used in some vehicles. The BTR-70 and the BRDM-2 each have : 7 boxes of PKMT 7.62 x 54 mm ammunition with 250 rounds each in the store and 1 box in the weapon. That makes a total of 8 x 250 = 2000 rounds