The standard armoured personnel carrier of the motorised rifle divisions of the Polish Army of the late 1960s was the Czechoslovak-designed and manufactured OT-64 SKOT. Originally intended to replace the OT-810 halftrack, based on the German Sd.Kfz.251, this entered service in Czechoslovakia in 1963, and was manufactured under licence in Poland. Roughly comparable to the Soviet-made BTR-60 eight-wheeled APC, it used a diesel instead of petrol engine, and had an armoured hull, with an entrance via twin doors at the rear. Primary armament of the illustrated variant consisted of a 14.5mm KPV machine gun, with a 7.62mm PKT machine gun installed coaxially, both in a one-man turret similar to the one installed on the BTR-60PB and the subsequent BRDM-2. Polish OT-64s frequently wore the national insignia on their forward hulls: sometimes, this was applied in full colour, as shown here, but other times only in the form of an outline. (Artwork by David Bocquelet)