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Amphibious armored scout car
BRDM-1 is a amphibious armored scout car originating in Soviet Union. Current inventory lists document it in Guinea, Mozambique.
Amphibious armored scout car
Soviet Union
1957–1970s (USSR)
See Operators
V. K. Rubtsov
late 1954 – 1957
1957–1966
11,500
See Variants
5.63 tonnes
5.7 m (18 ft 8 in)
2.25 m (7 ft 5 in)
2.9 m (9 ft 6 in)
3–4
Welded steel 10 mm maximum
none (BRDM-1 obr. 1957 and BRDM-1 obr. 1958) 7.62 mm SGMB medium machine gun on the front pintel mount (BRDM-1 obr. 1959 and BRDM-1 obr. 1960) 12.7 mm DShK 1938/46 heavy machine gun or 14.5 mm KPV heavy machine gun (Late BRDM-1)
none (BRDM-1 obr. 1957, BRDM-1 obr. 1958 and BRDM-1 obr. 1959) 2 × 7.62 mm SGMB medium machine guns on the side pintel mounts (optional) (BRDM-1 obr. 1960) 3 × 7.62 mm SGMB medium machine guns on pintel mounts (two optional) (Late BRDM-1)
GAZ-40PB 6-cylinder in-line gasoline 90 hp (70 kW) at 3,400 rpm.
16 hp/tonne (12.4 kW/tonne)
Leaf springs with hydraulic shock absorbers
340 mm
150 litres
Road: 750 km (470 mi) Water: 120 km (75 mi)
Road: 90 km/h (56 mph) Water: 9 km/h (5.6 mph)
Republic of the Congo
Cuba : 50
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Guinea : 10
Mozambique : 51; >28 operational in 2013.
Sudan : 5
Transnistria
Vietnam : 50
Zambia : 44
Afghanistan : 50
People's Socialist Republic of Albania : 15
People's Republic of Angola
People's Republic of Bulgaria : 150
Czechoslovakia : 124
East Germany : 299
Egypt : 200
Indonesia
Israel
Kazakhstan
Libya : 60
Oman
Peru : 12
Polish People's Republic : 900
Socialist Republic of Romania
Soviet Union : 10,000
Ba'athist Syria : 100, retired before the 2010s
Tanzania : 30
Uganda : 98
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BRDM-1 equipment records. Variants, orders and quantities are shown as reported in each inventory source; coverage is incomplete.
Reported count for BRDM-1. Service scope: Ethiopian Army; does not replace a national total. 1 distinct count cell(s) from the same source list; shared rowspan cells counted once. Retired, wholly reserve and on-order rows are excluded; the reported count retains any explicitly mixed stock scope in the quoted row. Count column(s): quantity: 309. Origin: Soviet Union. 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.
Reported count for BRDM-1. 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. Retired, wholly reserve and on-order rows are excluded; the reported count retains any explicitly mixed stock scope in the quoted row. Count column(s): quantity: 28. Origin: Soviet Union. The listed variants/roles are the scope, not an immediately deployable count. Dates are the count-cell citations' stated source period (2013), not the article revision. Cited source 2013-08-23. Edition or publication years do not claim an exact inventory census day.
Reported count for BRDM-1. Service scope: Zambian Army; does not replace a national total. 1 distinct count cell(s) from the same source list; shared rowspan cells counted once. Retired, wholly reserve and on-order rows are excluded; the reported count retains any explicitly mixed stock scope in the quoted row. Count column(s): quantity: 44. Origin: Soviet Union. 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.