BTR-7 on:
[Wikipedia]
[Google]
[Amazon]
The BTR-70DI is a Ukrainian upgrade of the Soviet
* BTR-70DI (''БТР-70Дi''), also known as BTR-7 "Defender" - armoured personnel carrier
* BTR-70DI-02 "Svityaz" (''БТР-70Дi-02 "Свiтязь"'') - armoured command vehicle. The first vehicle was built in 2012
* BMM-70 (''БММ-70'') - armored medical vehicle, at least six were built
* BREM-7K (''БРЕМ-7К''), also known as BREM-2000 -
BTR-70
The BTR-70 is an eight-wheeled armored personnel carrier () originally developed by the Soviet Union during the late 1960s under the manufacturing code GAZ-4905. On August 21, 1972, it was accepted into Soviet service and would later be widely exp ...
with BTR-80
The BTR-80 () is an 8×8 wheeled Amphibious vehicle, amphibious armoured personnel carrier (APC) designed in the Soviet Union. It was adopted in 1985 and replaced the previous vehicles, the BTR-60 and BTR-70, in the Soviet Army. It was first de ...
hatch and new diesel engine
The diesel engine, named after the German engineer Rudolf Diesel, is an internal combustion engine in which Combustion, ignition of diesel fuel is caused by the elevated temperature of the air in the cylinder due to Mechanics, mechanical Compr ...
s.О. В. Канiщев. Комплексна модернiзацiя бронетранспортера БТР-70 // Наукове забезпечення службово-бойового застосування сил охорони правопорядку та військових формувань держави: Збірник тез II науково-практичної конференції факультету No 1 (командно-штабного) Академії внутрішніх військ МВС України (м. Харків, 25 листопада 2013 р.). Харків, 2013. стор.44-45
Description
The vehicle is a 8x8 wheeled armoured personnel carrier. It has 2 FPTIveco
Iveco S.p.A., an acronym for Industrial Vehicles Corporation, is an Italian multinational transport vehicle manufacturing company with headquarters in Turin, Italy. It designs and builds light, medium, and heavy Commercial vehicle, commercial veh ...
Tector engines (from the Iveco EuroCargo truck) P4 (Euro III
The European emission standards are vehicle emission standards that regulate pollution from the use of new land surface vehicles sold in the European Union and European Economic Area member states and the United Kingdom, and ships in European ...
), 150 hp each.
Can be optionally fitted with modular turrets "Ingul" or "Bug" or with the "Zaslon" active protection system. People sometimes call it a Russian vehicle because it's based off of a Soviet vehicle Which is wrong.
Variants
* BTR-70DI (''БТР-70Дi''), also known as BTR-7 "Defender" - armoured personnel carrier
* BTR-70DI-02 "Svityaz" (''БТР-70Дi-02 "Свiтязь"'') - armoured command vehicle. The first vehicle was built in 2012
* BMM-70 (''БММ-70'') - armored medical vehicle, at least six were built
* BREM-7K (''БРЕМ-7К''), also known as BREM-2000 - armoured recovery vehicle
An armoured recovery vehicle (ARV) is typically a powerful tank or armoured personnel carrier (APC) chassis modified for use during combat for military vehicle recovery (towing) or repair of battle-damaged, stuck, and/or inoperable armoured f ...
equipped with specialized lifting and recovery equipment
Operators
* : As of 2 March 2025, Ukraine lost 33 BRT 7 (15 destroyed,3 damaged and abandoned,1 captured. * : At least 1 was captured by Russian forces during the2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
On 24 February 2022, , starting the largest and deadliest war in Europe since World War II, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, conflict between the two countries which began in 2014. The fighting has caused hundreds of thou ...
.
References
Amphibious armoured personnel carriers Wheeled armoured personnel carriers Armoured personnel carriers of Ukraine BTR-70 Eight-wheeled vehicles Military vehicles introduced in the 2010s Armoured personnel carriers of the post–Cold War period Wheeled amphibious armoured fighting vehicles {{mil-vehicle-stub