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Reconnaissance vehicle and armored personnel carrier
ABC-79M is a reconnaissance vehicle and armored personnel carrier originating in Romania.
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Sourced dimensions beside a 1.75 m human reference.
Points represent sourced observations, including revisions. Revisions on the same effective date are not separate inventory events. Ranges appear in the table and are not plotted as exact points.
| Observation / report period | Value | Source | Claim state |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29 Sept 2026 | 5.64 m | Wikipedia contributors | superseded |
| 29 Sept 2026 | 5.64 m | Wikipedia contributors | approved |
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Reconnaissance vehicle and armored personnel carrier
Romania
430
9,27 tonnes
5,64 m
2,80 m
2,34 m
3+4
1 × 14,5mm KPVT Machine gun 500 rounds
1 × 7,62mm PKT Machine gun 2000 rounds
Diesel Type 798.05N2
4×4
700 km
80 km/h
Reference text from Wikipedia contributors, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
ABC-79M equipment records. Variants, orders and quantities are shown as reported in each inventory source; coverage is incomplete.
Naval Infantry exact named equipment holdings: ABC-79M. Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only; no parent-force or national total inferred. Source role: ARMOURED FIGHTING VEHICLES / AUV. Original estimates, ranges, reporting names, reserve, lease and employment scopes retained; nested included counts are not added. Missile-system quantities mean launchers, not rounds. No readiness, crew, carried weapon, payload, factory-production or future order count inherited.
Army exact named equipment holdings: TABC-79 (incl variants). Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only; no parent-force or national total inferred. Source role: ARMOURED FIGHTING VEHICLES / AUV. Original estimates, ranges, reporting names, reserve, lease and employment scopes retained; nested included counts are not added. Missile-system quantities mean launchers, not rounds. No readiness, crew, carried weapon, payload, factory-production or future order count inherited.
Navy holdings of the exact named ABC-79M component: active, reserve operational and training units, excluding equipment in store. This is a service-scoped observation, not a national total or combat-readiness count. No parent-design, sibling-variant, heading aggregate or mounted-weapon total is inherited.
Reported count for TABC-79 · TAB-C TAB-79A-PCOMA TAB-79AR TAB RCH-84. Service scope: Land Forces; does not replace a national total. 1 distinct count cell(s) from the same source list; shared rowspan cells counted once. Excludes retired/reserve/on-order rows. Count column(s): numbers: 402. Origin: Romania. The listed variants/roles are the scope, not an immediately deployable count. The components do not establish one inventory census date; the stored date is the retrieved source snapshot.