BTR (vehicle)
BTR, from Bronetransportyor/''Bronetransporter'', is any of a series of Soviet or post-Soviet military armoured personnel carriers.
Manufacturers
Soviet Union
- BTR-40 – Armoured 4×4 truck 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 – Tracked APC based on the PT-76 amphibious light tank chassis.
- BTR-60 – Eight-wheeled APC.
- BTR-70 – Eight-wheeled APC.
- BTR-80 – Eight-wheeled APC.
- BTR-152 – Armoured 6×6 truck based on the ZIS-151, with later variants using the ZIL-157 truck.
- BTR-D – Bronetransportyor, Desanta, stretched six-wheel transport variant of the BMD-1 airborne IFV.
- BTR-MD "Rakushka" – APC variant of the BMD-3. Planned successor for the BTR-D.
Russia
- BTR-90 – Russian eight-wheeled APC.
- BTR-T – Russian tracked infantry fighting vehicle based on the T-55 chassis.
- BTR-22 – Russian eight-wheeled APC first shown 2024
Ukraine
- BTR-3 – Ukrainian BTR-80 variant eight-wheeled APC. 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 with rear doors designed in Ukraine by the Kharkiv Morozov Machine Building Design Bureau 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.