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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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 Soviet Army fielded its first tracked APC, the BTR-50, in 1957. [7] Its first wheeled APC, the BTR-152, had been designed as early as the late 1940s. [7] Early versions of both these lightly armored vehicles were open-topped and carried only general-purpose machine guns for armament. [6]
In addition, a consignment of 32 Soviet-made T-34/85 medium tanks (from Yugoslav surplus) were delivered along with 40 BTR-152 armoured personnel carriers, [37] as well as a batch of 30 M1944 100-mm field guns, [38] 40 modern 3M6 Shmel anti-tank missile firing units, a batch of ZPU-1 14.5mm anti-aircraft guns and a consignment of around 4500 ...
The armour on the Bulat can withstand direct hits from 7.62 mm calibre weapons. [4] The vehicle features prominent, high-angled plated armour meant to deflect small-arms' rounds and artillery shell shrapnel, and features a V-shaped hull to increase protection against mine and IED blasts, with the bottom of the hull being resistant to explosions equivalent to 1 kg of TNT.