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    The BTR-152 is a six-wheeled Soviet armored personnel carrier (APC) built on the chassis and drive train of a ZIS-151 utility truck. It entered service...
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    in the late 1950s as a replacement for the BTR-152 and was seen in public for the first time in 1961. BTR stands for bronetransportyor (Russian: бронетранспортёр...
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    was eventually replaced in the APC role by the BTR-152 and in the scout car role by the BRDM-1. The BTR-40's development began in early 1947 at the design...
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    Jordan ordered 50 BTR-94s in 1999, the last vehicles were delivered in February 2000. BTR-152 BTR-60, BTR-70, BTR-80, BTR-90, BTR-3, BTR-4 "KMDB - BAU-23x2...
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    (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 –...
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    The BTR-50 (BTR stands for Bronetransporter (Russian: БТР, Бронетранспортер), literally "armored transporter") is a Soviet tracked amphibious armored...
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    Army, employed as a car mechanic and driver, who in 1963 used a stolen BTR-152 armoured personnel carrier to escape to West Germany by breaking through...
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    there were 474 armoured personnel carriers, including 64 BTR-40, BTR-50, BTR-60; 100 BTR-152 wheeled armored personnel carriers, 310 Fiat 6614 and 6616s...
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    heavy tanks,and a variety of other Soviet equipment, including BRDM-1; 400 BTR-40/60; artillery up to 152mm; and 50 FROG-4 (2K6 Luna?) surface to surface...
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    Katyusha rocket launchers. The most famous developments of ZIS-151 were the BTR-152 armored personnel carrier and the BAV 485 amphibious vehicle. Due to de-Stalinization...
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    BMP-3 BMD-1 BMD-2 BMD-3 BMO-1 BTR-series AFVs: BTR-D BTR-40 BTR-50 BTR-60 BTR-70 BTR-80 BTR-112 (Object 112) BTR-152 BTR-E152V BRDM-1 BRDM-2 Object 19...
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    reconnaissance vehicle, but using the ZIS-151 6x6 truck (also used in the BTR-152) as its basis. Similar in size to the DUKW, which it resembles, the BAV...
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    personnel carrier developed by Nimda Group, loosely modeled after the Soviet BTR-152. The vehicle passed tests with the Israel Defense Forces, but didn't reach...
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    motorized rifle troops: BTR-40 – in the period from 1950 to 1960s, 8,500 units were produced BTR-50 — 1954 to 1970s – 6,500 pieces BTR-152 — 1947 to 1962s –...
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    The BTR-4 "Bucephalus" (Ukrainian: БТР-4 «Буцефал», romanized: Butsefal, abbreviation of Бронетранспортер, Bronetransporter, 'armoured transporter') is...
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    layout of the Bulat SBA-60-K2 is very similar to the old Soviet-built BTR-152, with the engine being placed at the front, the commander and driver are...
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    бронетранспортер), better known as the BTR series. It comprised the BTR-40, BTR-152, BTR-60, BTR-70, BTR-80, and the BTR-90, which as a whole were produced...
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  • The brigade was at least partly mechanised and possessed a number of BTR-152 armoured personnel carriers. The Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) was created...
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    forty Ti-67s on the LF inventory), M3/M9 Zahlam half-tracks, M113 and BTR-152 APCs. In addition, twenty T-54/55 tanks were later captured from the Syrian...
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    as well as the new T-54s, heavy IS-3 tanks, 152mm ISU-152 mobile assault guns and open-top BTR-152 armored personnel carriers. Between 4 and 9 November...
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    The Soviet Army fielded its first tracked APC, the BTR-50, in 1957. Its first wheeled APC, the BTR-152, had been designed as early as the late 1940s. Early...
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  • consisted of a reinforced mechanised battalion of at least four T-34 tanks, 17 BTR-152 armoured personnel carriers, seven trucks and four anti-aircraft guns,...
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    a longer lever. Sudan and Yemen used M167 guns seated upon the Soviet BTR-152 APC. An M167 mounted on a Toyota Land Cruiser as a “technical” has been...
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    (both armoured and unarmoured versions). After the SPW 152 APC, a variant of the Soviet BTR-152, had been phased out from the army arsenals in the mid...
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  • armoured car UR-416 armoured car BTR-152 armoured personnel carrier BTR-50PK amphibious armoured personnel carrier BTR-60PB armoured personnel carrier...
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    tanks, as well as 250 armoured personnel carriers such as the BTR-50PK, BTR-152 and BTR-60PB. In addition to the Somali regular troops, another 15,000...
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    War: Government, Armed Forces and Defence Policy 1963–67. Routledge. p. 152. ISBN 978-1-134-16377-9. On the evening of 22 May, President Gamal Abdul...
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  • States OT-62 TOPAS  Czechoslovakia BTR-70  Soviet Union  Belarus BTR-70M Kobra 2 BTR-152  Soviet Union Cadillac Gage Commando  United States V-150 OT-64...
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  • personnel. The Military Balance 2012 estimated that about 450 BRDM, BMP, BTR-60, BTR-152, and Type 89 armoured fighting vehicles and armoured personnel carriers...
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  • BMP-3 BMD-1 BMD-2 BMD-3 BRM-1 BRDM-1 BRDM-2 BRDM-3 BTR-152 BTR-40 BTR-50 BTR-60 BTR-70 BTR-80 BTR-D BTR-90 MT-LB 2P 406mm 2S1 122mm 2S3 Akatsiya 152mm 2S4...
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