BTR (), from ''Bronetransportyor''/''Bronetransporter'' (/), is any of a series of

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or post-Soviet military armoured personnel carriers (APCs).

Manufacturers

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 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 ...

– 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'' (, literally "armoured transporter of the Airborne"), stretched six-wheel transport variantFederation of American Scientists – Military Analysis Network: BTR-D BMD M1979
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/ref> * 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

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. 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.

Notes

{{PostWWIISovietAFVS Armoured personnel carriers of the Soviet Union Armoured personnel carriers of the Cold War Cold War armoured fighting vehicles of the Soviet Union GAZ Group military vehicles Reconnaissance vehicles Off-road vehicles