conditions as it lacked the cross country capability of the tracked APCs in the Chinese inventory. It should be noted though that, before the Sino-Soviet split, the PRC imported 100 BTR-40s and 100 BTR-152s from the USSR and manufactured copies of those vehicles; and these served with the PLA until the mid-1990s. The experience gained through reverse-engineering the BTR-60 helped the PRC in developing other more advanced wheeled APCs later in the 1980s. List of conflicts 1965–1973 – Vietnam War (North Vietnam) 1966–1991 – South African Border War (Angola, Cuba) 1967 – Six-Day War (Egypt, Syria) 1968 – Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia 1969 – Sino-Soviet border conflict (Soviet Union) 1973 – Yom Kippur War (Egypt, Syria) 1974–1991 – Ethiopian Civil War 1961–1991 – Eritrean War for Independence 1975–1990 – Lebanese Civil War 1975–1991 – Western Sahara War (Polisario) 1975–2002 – Angolan Civil War 1977–1978 – Ogaden War 1978–1987 – Chadian–Libyan conflict 1979–1988 – Soviet–Afghan War (Soviet Union, Afghanistan) 1980–1988 – Iran–Iraq War (Iran, Iraq) 1982 – 1982 Ethiopian–Somali Border War 1983 – Invasion of Grenada (Grenada) 1988–1993 – Georgian Civil War 1992–1993 – War in Abkhazia 1988–1994 – First Nagorno-Karabakh War (Nagorno-Karabakh, Armenia, Azerbaijan) 1989 – Romanian Revolution (Romania) 1990–1991 – First Persian Gulf War (Iraq) 1991–present – Somali Civil War 1991–1999 – Yugoslav wars 1992–1997 – Civil War in Tajikistan 1993 – present – Kurdish–Turkish conflict (Turkey) 1994 – Civil War in Yemen 1994–1996 – First Chechen War (Russia) 1999–2009 – Second Chechen War (Russia) 2001–2016 – War in Afghanistan 2003–2011 – Iraq War 2003 – Invasion of Iraq (Iraq) 2011 – Libyan Civil War (Gaddafi and Anti-Gaddafi forces) 2011–present – Syrian civil war (Government forces and rebels) 2014–present – Russo-Ukrainian War 2020 – 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict Variants Former Soviet Union BTR-60P (1959) (P stands for plavajushhijj – "swimming") – Initial version with troop compartment completely exposed and often covered with bows and canvas. The vehicle has mounting points for three 7.62 mm machine guns (either the PKT, the SGMB or the PKB tank/medium/general-purpose machine guns), one on the front and one on each side between the two small doors; however, only one mount is fitted, and that is usually on the front mounting point. The vehicle carries 2,000 machine gun rounds. It was also known under the designation GAZ-49. BTR-60P with a modified machine gun mounting point in the front to fit the DShK 1938/46 12.7 mm heavy