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The BTR-152 is a six-wheeled Soviet armoured personnel carrier (APC) built on the chassis and drive train of a ZIS-151 utility truck. It entered service with a number of Warsaw Pact member states beginning in 1950, and formed the mainstay of Soviet motor rifle battalions until the advent of the amphibious BTR-60 series during the 1960s. [8]
BTR-152, the model of vehicle that was used by Engels in his escape. On 17 April 1963, on the eve of the communist May Day celebrations, Engels stole an East German National People's Army BTR-152 armoured personnel carrier from his military-base while its crew were at lunch and drove it through the streets of East Berlin. The police were used ...
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 most famous developments of ZIS-151 were the BTR-152 armored personnel carrier and the BAV 485 amphibious vehicle. Due to de-Stalinization the ZIS-151 was renamed in 1956 to ZIL-151. In 1958, an improved model, the ZIL-157, was introduced and replaced the ZIS-151. It differed outwardly by its grille and having single rear tires, instead of ...
BTR-152: Soviet Union Wheeled armoured personnel carrier 200 Serviceability doubtful. [3] BTR-60: BTR-70: BTR-80: WZ-551: China Wheeled armoured personnel carrier Command vehicle variant. [3] Casspir: South Africa: MRAP: 45 NG2000 variant. [3] BTS-2: Soviet Union Armoured recovery vehicle: 5 [3] Bozena Slovakia: Mine flail [3] Engesa EE-12 ...
Around 40 BTR-152V1 armored personnel carriers were acquired for the Cypriot National Guard from Soviet Union in 1964-65 during the early presidency of Archbishop Makarios. During the period of the 1974 war, all of the BTR-152 armored personnel carriers are believed to have served with the 286MTP (Tagmatos Pezikou / Battalion Infantry Mechanised).
The earliest experiment was the short-lived Soviet Light Motor Rifle Division in 1987, which consisted of wheeled BTR platforms for its primary armament. [16] In the 1990s, the United States explored Stryker Brigade Combat Team (SBCT) formation and doctrines, which was a medium mechanized infantry formation with all-wheeled platforms centered ...
It was designed by civilian engineers at a Nasr Automotive facility in Helwan [4] and modeled directly on the BTR-40, an early postwar Soviet wheeled APC. [3] The Walid combined the hull designs of the BTR-40 and its larger successor, the BTR-152, with the chassis of a 4X4 Magirus utility truck manufactured under license by the Kader Factory. [2]