Type of Soviet or post-Soviet military armoured personnel carrier
BTR (
Russian: БТР), from Bronetransportyor/Bronetransporter (
Russian: бронетранспортёр/
Ukrainian: бронетранспортер; literally "armoured transporter"), is any of a series of
Soviet or post-Soviet military
armoured personnel carriers (APCs).
Manufacturers
Soviet Union
BTR-40 – Armored 4×4 truck (1950s) based on
GAZ-63 four wheel drive truck.
BTR-152 – Armoured 6×6 truck (1950s) based on the
ZIS-151, with later variants using the
ZIL-157 truck.
BTR-D – Bronetransportyor, Desanta (
Russian: Бронетранспортёр Десанта, literally "armored transporter of the Airborne"), stretched six-wheel transport variant[1][2] of the
BMD-1 airborne IFV.[3][4]
BTR-MD "Rakushka" – APC variant of the
BMD-3. Planned successor for the BTR-D.
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.