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An armoured personnel carrier (APC) is a broad type of armoured military vehicle designed to transport personnel and equipment in combat zones. Since World War I , APCs have become a very common piece of military equipment around the world.
OT-62 (OT-62 stands for Obrněný Transportér vzor 62 – "Armoured Personnel Carrier model 62") – a series of BTR-50 copies developed jointly by Poland and Czechoslovakia. They are similar to BTR-50PK but have side hatches in the hull sides, a stronger PV-6 engine with power of 300 hp (220 kW), and two projecting bays like the BTR-50PU.
2.1 Out of service. 2.2 Experimental. 3 Heavy tanks. Toggle Heavy tanks subsection. ... 6 Armored personnel carriers, reconnaissance and fighting vehicles.
The Temsah Bus is a MRAP armored personnel carrier can carry 24 soldiers, in addition to its crew of two individuals, for a total of 26 individuals, which means that it can transport a number equal to twice the capacity of conventional armored vehicles. [1] [2] [3]
[21] [29] 300 BTR-50s and BTR-60s in service in 2000, 2002, 2005 and 2008. An estimated 1000 is in storage. Iran has its own upgraded BTR-50 variant, the Makran IFV. [30] Over 150 BTR-50s are currently in service, with hundreds in storage, per GlobalSecurity. Kazakhstan – 300 BTR-50s and BTR-60s in service in 2000, 2002 and 2005. [31]
These attempted to develop a true infantry fighting vehicle rather than an armored personnel carrier. Pacific Car and Foundry entered the steel-armored XM701, but this proved to be too slow and too heavy to be airmobile, even in the Lockheed C-141 Starlifter. FMC entered the XM734, which was largely the ACAV M113 but with the troops sitting ...
Fuchs was the second wheeled armoured vehicle to enter service with the Bundeswehr (West German military). [5] It can be used for tasks including troop transport, engineer transport, bomb disposal, nuclear, biological and chemical reconnaissance and electronic warfare. RMMV and its predecessors manufactured 1,236 Fuchs 1, mostly for the German ...
The M577 command post carrier, also known as the M577 command post vehicle or armored command post vehicle, is a variant of the M113 armored personnel carrier that was developed and produced by the FMC Corporation to function on the battlefield as a mobile command post i.e. a tactical operations centre, usually at the battalion level.