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The BTR-94 is a Ukrainian amphibious
BTR-94
at Ukrspetsexport
Morozov's site about BAU-23
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armoured personnel carrier
An armoured personnel carrier (APC) is a broad type of armoured military vehicle designed to transport personnel and equipment in combat zones. Since World War I, APCs have become a very common piece of military equipment around the world.
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('' Bronetransporter''), a modification of the Soviet
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...
eight-wheeled 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 ...
.
Description
The BTR-94's turret BAU-23x2 is larger than the BTR-80's BPU-1. It is fitted with a twin 23x152mm gun 2A7M with 200 rounds, a coaxial KT-7.62 machine gun with 2,000 rounds, six 81 mm smoke grenade launchers and a combined 1PZ-7-23 optical sight. Each 2A7M gun has a max. rate of fire of 850 rds/min. The same gun is mounted on theZSU-23-4
The ZSU-23-4 "Shilka" is a lightly armored Soviet self-propelled, radar-guided Anti-aircraft warfare, anti-aircraft weapon system (Self-propelled anti-aircraft weapon, SPAAG). It was superseded by the 2K22 Tunguska (SA-19 Grison).
Etymology
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. The BAU-23x2 module can be mounted on other armoured vehicles like the BTR-70 or Ratel IFV.
Operators
Current operators
* - Iraq received 50 BTR-94s donated byJordan
Jordan, officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. Jordan is bordered by Syria to the north, Iraq to the east, Saudi Arabia to the south, and Israel and the occupied Palestinian ter ...
in 2004 for use by the Mechanized Police Brigade.
Former operators
* - Jordan ordered 50 BTR-94s in 1999, the last vehicles were delivered in February 2000.Дорогу к изобилию скоротаем на танках // газета "Сегодня", № 212 (713) от 15 ноября 2000See also
*BTR-152
The BTR-152 is a six-wheeled Soviet armoured personnel carrier (APC) built on the chassis and drive train of a ZIS-151 utility truck. It entered service with a number of Warsaw Pact member states beginning in 1950, and formed the mainstay of Sovi ...
* BTR-60
The BTR-60 is the first vehicle in a series of Soviet Union, Soviet eight-wheeled armoured personnel carriers (APCs). It was developed in the late 1950s as a replacement for the BTR-152 and was seen in public for the first time in 1961. BTR (vehi ...
, BTR-70, 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 ...
, BTR-90, BTR-3, BTR-4
References
External links
BTR-94
at Ukrspetsexport
Morozov's site about BAU-23
{{ModernUKRAFVsNav , style= wide Amphibious armoured personnel carriers Wheeled armoured personnel carriers Armoured personnel carriers of Ukraine BTR-80 Eight-wheeled vehicles Military vehicles introduced in the 1990s Armoured personnel carriers of the post–Cold War period Wheeled amphibious armoured fighting vehicles