The Ukranian BMT-72 - Insanity.

[PlasmaKrab]

Actually, the Achzarit doesn't have a front ramp - it has a rear exit, connected to the crew compartment by a narrow passage along the engine.

OK, my bad, it doesn't. Then are Israeli engineer APCs used to ram building walls for quick assault bakc first? I have heard of this practice being used in some rare cases for assaulting buildings under fire.

[Marcello]

"They weren't, it's kind of urban legend. Soviet construction schools, whether on tanks, aircraft or submarines (e.g.) were always concerned about the crew in a normal way, AFAIK there is no proof to say nonsense like "crew matters less than engine"."

Exactly. They did toy with the front engine idea:
http://www.morozov.com.ua/images/p78-2l.jpg
http://www.morozov.com.ua/images/p87-1l.jpg

Neverthless they rejected it, probably for the same reasons everybody else except the israelis rejected it.

[pdoktar]

That thing is so ugly its good they rejected it. An extremely ugly armored vehicle. (And for us tank junkies, they are meant to be pretty.)

[Marcello]

The second vehicle actually looks quite good IMHO.