BTR (vehicle)
BTR (БТР), from Bronetransportyor/Bronetransporter (Russian: бронетранспортёр/Ukrainian: бронетранспортер; literally "armoured transporter"), is any of a series of Soviet or post-Soviet military armoured personnel carriers.
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BTR-40 APC in Yad la-Shiryon Museum, Israel, 2005
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Russian BTR-T
Manufacturers
Soviet Union
- BTR-40 – Armored 4×4 truck (1950s) based on GAZ-63 four wheel drive truck.
- BTR-50 – Tracked APC (1954) based on the PT-76 amphibious light tank chassis.
- BTR-60 – Eight-wheeled APC (1959).
- BTR-70 – Eight-wheeled APC (1972).
- BTR-80 – Eight-wheeled APC (1986).
- BTR-152 – Armoured 6×6 truck (1950s) based on the ZiS-151, with later variants using the ZIL-157 truck.
- BTR-D – Bronetransportyor, Desanta (Russian: Бронетранспортёр Десанта, literally "armored transporter of the Airborne"), stretched six-wheel transport variant[1][2] of the BMD-1 airborne IFV.[3][4]
- BTR-MD "Rakushka" – APC variant of the BMD-3. Planned successor for the BTR-D.
Russia
Ukraine
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BTR-4 assigned to Ukrainian Armed Forces
- BTR-3 – Ukrainian BTR-80 variant eight-wheeled APC (2000). It is manufactured by KMDB in Ukraine. The BTR-3 is an all-new production vehicle, rather than an upgrade of the existing in-service vehicle, such as the BTR-80.
- BTR-4 – Another Ukrainian eight-wheeled APC (2006) with rear doors designed in Ukraine by the Kharkiv Morozov Machine Building Design Bureau (SOE KMDB) as a private venture. The prototype was unveiled at the Aviasvit 2006 exhibition held in Ukraine in June 2006.
- BTR-7 – an upgrade of the BTR-70.
- BTR-94 – Ukrainian modification of the Soviet eight-wheeled BTR-80.
Notes
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