Bronetransporter

Bronetransporter or BTR (Russian "Бронетранспортер" or БТР), literally "armoured transporter" are Soviet or post-Soviet military armoured personnel carriers . [http://www.milparade.com/Soderzhaniye.pdf] .

* BTR-3U Ukrainian BTR-80 variant eight-wheeled APC (2000) with rear doors. It is manufactured by KMDB in Ukraine. The most significant of exports was to the Myanmar Army which acquired 1000 BTR-3Us, to be assembled in Myanmar. Iraq has also announced that they will buy 336 veriants of the vehicle. The BTR-3U 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 BTR-80 variant eight-wheeled APC (2006) 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. The vehicle has a conventional layout similar to western designs with the driver's and commander's compartment at the front part of the hull, the engine and transmission compartment in the middle, and the troop compartment at the rear. The troops enter and leave the vehicle either through the rear doors or the roof hatches, and the driver and the commander are provided with doors located on the sides of the hull.
* BTR-40 armoured 4×4 truck (1950s) based on GAZ-63 four wheel drive truck
** BTR-40P, another name for the BRDM-1
** BTR-40PB, another name for the BRDM-2
* BTR-50 is a tracked APC (1950s) based on the PT-76 amphibious light tank chassis. Like the PT-76, the BTR-50 has a flat, boat-shaped hull. Unlike the PT-76 it has a new superstructure added to the front of the vehicle. The hull of the BTR-50 is made of all-welded steel with the crew compartment at the front, troop compartment in the center and the engine compartment at the rear. It has an ability to transport up to twenty fully equipped infantrymen who sit on benches which run across the full width of the troop compartment. They mount and dismount the APC by climbing over the sides of the hull.
* BTR-60 eight-wheeled APC (1960s)
* BTR-70 eight-wheeled APC (1970s)
* BTR-80 eight-wheeled APC (1980s)
* BTR-90 Russian eight-wheeled APC (1990s)
* BTR-94 The BTR-94 amphibious armoured personnel carrier ("bronyetransportyor") is a Ukrainian modification of the Soviet eight-wheeled BTR-80. The BTR-94's turret BAU-23x2 [ [http://www.morozov.com.ua/eng/body/bau23.php?menu=def4.php KMDB - BAU-23x2 Weapon Station ] ] is larger than the BTR-80's BPU-1 and is fitted with a twin 23mm gun 2A7M with 200 rounds, a coaxial KT-7.62 machinegun with 2,000 rounds, six 81mm smoke grenade launchers and a combined optical sight 1PZ-7-23. Each 2A7M gun has a max. rate of fire of 850 rds/min. The same gun is mounted on the ZSU-23-4. The BAU-23x2 module can also be mounted on other armoured vehicles like the BTR-70 or Ratel IFV. Jordan ordered 50 BTR-94's in 1997, the first vehicles were delivered in 2000.
* BTR-152 armoured 6×6 truck (1950s) based on the ZiS-151, with later variants using the ZiL-157 truck
* BTR-D BTR-D stands for "Bronetransportyor Desanta" (БТР, Бронетранспортер Десанта, literally "armoured transporter of the Airborne") [http://www.milparade.com/Soderzhaniye.pdf †] . It is based on BMD-1 airborne IFV. NATO gave it the designation BMD M1979. [http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/russia/bmd-1.htm Global Security BMD-1] ] [http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/row/bmd-1.htm fas.org BMD-1] ] [http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/russia/btr-50.htm "Global Security"] ] [http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/row/btr-d.htm fas.org] ] [http://www.jedsite.info/fulltrack-bravo/bravo/btr-d_series/btrd-series.html JED] ] [http://warfare.ru/?lang=&linkid=2312&catid=245 warfare.ru] ]
* BTR-T Russian tracked infantry fighting vehicle based on the T-55 chassis (1990s)

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