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The BTR-40's development began in early 1947 at the design bureau of the Gorky Automobile Factory under the leadership of V. A. Dedkov. The concept was a successor to the BA-64B armoured car which went out of production in 1946.
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.
BRDM-1 with 7.62mm SGMB machine gun. The BRDM-1 (also known as the BTR-40P) [2] first appeared in 1959, and was in production until 1966. Total production was around 10,000 vehicles; less than 600 remain in the reserves of a number of countries.
It retains the boat-like bow of the BRDM-1, alongside its chassis, which in turn is derived from the BTR-40, being based on the chassis of the GAZ-63 from the 1940s and 1960s. However, the crew compartment is now further forward and the new GAZ-41 gasoline V8 engine (which is derived from the one used in the GAZ-13 Chaika limousine) [ 6 ] [ 7 ...
Soviet dissatisfaction with the BTR-40 in the scout car role led to design work being initiated on a new purpose-built scout car in 1954. [1] The Soviet Army specified an amphibious armored vehicle able to accommodate a crew of five, with a road speed of around 80 kilometres per hour and a road range of at least 500 kilometres. [ 1 ]
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Before the Sino-Soviet split, the PRC imported 100 BTR-40s and 100 BTR-152s from the USSR and manufactured copies of those vehicles; and these served with the PLA until the mid-1990s. [25] [41] The experience gained through reverse-engineering the BTR-60 helped the PRC in developing other more advanced wheeled APCs later in the 1980s.
The entities -- including 13 Russian and 11 Chinese ones, were targeted by the Commerce Department for a host of reasons, including support for Russia's chemical and biological weapons programs ...