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BTR-70 in middle east
tom
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Florida, United States
Joined: December 01, 2003
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Posted: Friday, February 19, 2010 - 12:19 PM UTC
Did any of the arab states have the BTR-70 in service when the IDF went to war with any of them and are they still used.

I want to do a dio with a IDF puma and a IDF Humvee or a IDF namer GP and was wondering if they saw any battles.Would it look funny or would it be some what accurate.

Happy Modeling
Tom


PS:
Not sure if this is the right place but thought since it was a russian armour I would put it here.Sorry if I messed up.
Jacques
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Posted: Saturday, February 20, 2010 - 03:37 AM UTC
No arab states have used the BTR-70 that can be proven. Iran is rumored to have them (possibly up to 1000), but no photos have surfaced so far.
kruppw
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Posted: Sunday, February 19, 2012 - 03:41 AM UTC
Most if not all arab nations used or are still using the BTR-60PB. If you don't want to use that, you could use the T-55, T-62, BTR-50, or even BTR-152 depend on how late you want to build your diorama. I know there were a few BTR-152 captured by the IDF in Lebanon.
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