BTR (vehicle)



BTR (БТР), from Bronetransportyor/Bronetransporter (бронетранспортёр/бронетранспортер; literally "armoured transporter"), is any of a series of Soviet or post-Soviet military armoured personnel carriers (APCs).

Soviet Union

 * 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 – 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 (Бронетранспортёр Десанта, literally "armoured transporter of the Airborne"), 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 (1990s).
 * BTR-T – Russian tracked infantry fighting vehicle based on the T-55 chassis (1990s).

Ukraine

 * 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.