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AArmoured vehicles
Amphibious armored personnel carrier Variants : Infantry fighting vehicle Self-propelled artillery
BArmoured vehicles
At a glance
BTR-80larger figure on 4 of 4
FV105 Sultanlarger figure on 0 of 4
Counts only measures both sources give with the same scope. A larger figure is not a better system.
Measured figures
Length
Single source7.7 m (25.3 ft)[source]
Length
Single sourceConfiguration
| Specification | BTR-80 | FV105 Sultan |
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| Type | Amphibious armored personnel carrier Variants : Infantry fighting vehicle Self-propelled artillery[source] | — |
| Place of origin | Soviet Union[source] | United Kingdom[source] |
| In service | 1986–present[source] | — |
| Used by | See Operators[source] | — |
| Wars | Soviet–Afghan War First Nagorno-Karabakh War Georgian Civil War Kurdish–Turkish conflict (1978–2025) Transnistria War Tajikistan Civil War War in Afghanistan Iraq War First Chechen War War of Dagestan Second Chechen War Russo-Georgian War Insurgency in the North Caucasus Iraqi insurgency (2011–13) Sudanese conflict in South Kordofan and Blue Nile Sri Lankan Civil War War in Donbas 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict Russo-Ukrainian war United Nations Interim Force In Lebanon |
4.82 m (15 ft 10 in)[source]
Bars compare reported quantities only. A larger figure does not make a system better; configurations and test conditions differ.
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| Manufacturer | Arzamas Machine-Building Plant , Nizhniy Novgorod[source] | Alvis plc[source] |
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| Produced | 1984–present[source] | — |
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| No. built | 5,000[source] | — |
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| Armor | 10 mm (hull) 7 mm (turret)[source] | — |
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| Main armament | 14.5 mm KPVT machine gun or 30 mm 2A72[source] | FN MAG on pintle mount[source] |
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| Secondary armament | 7.62 mm PKT machine gun[source] | — |
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| Power/weight | 19 hp/tonne[source] | — |
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| Suspension | wheeled 8×8[source] | torsion bar[source] |
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