A deadly game of vehicular chicken on the front line in eastern Ukraine ended in death and destruction on or just before Saturday—but only for the losing side. When a Russian army BTR-82 wheeled ...
Over 100 BTR-82AM armoured personnel carriers (APCs) will be delivered to motorised rifle units of the Russian Western Military District (MD) formation located in the Voronezh, Belgorod and Bryansk ...
MOSCOW, July 19. /TASS/. Russia’s BTR-82 armored personnel carrier (APC) upgraded to the BTR-82AT level will get protection from high-explosive shells and munitions, CEO of the Military Industrial ...
In 2009, the Arzamas Machine-Building Plant in Arzamas, in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast 250 miles east of Moscow, revealed a new variant of the BTR-82 armored personnel carrier. The BTR-82A—a 17-ton, ...
MOSCOW, May 27. /TASS/. Russia is developing the latest Mars-2000 reconnaissance combat vehicle based on the BTR-82 armored personnel carrier, CEO of Military Industrial Company (the producer of the ...
Russia’s VPK (Military Industrial Company) presented a new 8x8 platform during the Army-2023 show near Moscow earlier in August. While the vehicle was displayed under the designation BTR-82A (Advanced ...
Russia's stockpiles of Soviet-made armored vehicles are running low, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said in a June 26 analytical report. ISW cited an analysis of satellite images conducted ...
Unlike the BTR-70, which operates on dual petrol engines unless retrofitted, the BTR-80 features a single diesel engine. Moreover, the BTR-80 has since undergone significant upgrades, culminating in ...
Russia has sharply increased the production of BTR-82 armored personnel carriers, effectively returning to the mass production of Soviet-style armored vehicles. This was reported by an open source ...