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Type of Soviet or post-Soviet military armoured personnel carrier
BTR-40 APC in Yad la-Shiryon Museum, Israel, 2005Russian BTR-T
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 – Armoured 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 "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.
BTR-T – Russian tracked infantry fighting vehicle based on the T-55 chassis (1990s).
Ukraine
BTR-4 assigned to Ukrainian Armed Forces
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.
