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Armoured vehicles1986–present
Amphibious armored personnel carrier Variants : Infantry fighting vehicle Self-propelled artillery
BTR-80 is a amphibious armored personnel carrier Variants : Infantry fighting vehicle Self-propelled artillery originating in Soviet Union. It was built by Arzamas Machine-Building Plant , Nizhniy Novgorod.
Technical data
True scale
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 Sept 2026 | 7.7 m | Wikipedia contributors | superseded |
| 28 Sept 2026 | 7.7 m | Wikipedia contributors | approved |
Amphibious armored personnel carrier Variants : Infantry fighting vehicle Self-propelled artillery
Soviet Union
1986–present
See Operators
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
Arzamas Machine-Building Plant , Nizhniy Novgorod
1984–present
5,000
13.6 t (15.0 short tons; 13.4 long tons)
7.7 m (25.3 ft)
2.9 m (9.5 ft)
2.41 m (7.9 ft)
3 (+7 passengers)
10 mm (hull) 7 mm (turret)
14.5 mm KPVT machine gun or 30 mm 2A72
7.62 mm PKT machine gun
diesel KamAZ -7403 260 hp (190 kW)
19 hp/tonne
wheeled 8×8
600 km (372.8 mi)
80–90 km/h (49.7–55.9 m/h) swim 10 km/h (6.2 m/h)
Afghanistan
Algeria
Angola
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Bangladesh
Belarus
Burundi
Chad
Colombia
Djibouti
Georgia
Hungary
Indonesia
Iraq
Ivory Coast
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Moldova
Mongolia
Myanmar
Nicaragua
North Korea
North Macedonia
Pakistan
Russia
Serbia
Sri Lanka
Sudan
Syria
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Uganda
Ukraine
Uzbekistan
Venezuela
Yemen
Reference text from Wikipedia contributors, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
BTR-80 equipment records. Variants, orders and quantities are shown as reported in each inventory source; coverage is incomplete.
Afghanistan
AlgeriaArmy exact named equipment holdings: BTR-80. 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 / APC (W). 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 holdings of the exact named BTR-80 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.
AngolaNumber column of the Wikipedia list table under "Vehicles". The list's own wording applies; it is a compiled secondary source, not an official census.
ArmeniaArmy exact named equipment holdings: BTR-80. 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 / APC (W). 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.
AzerbaijanArmy exact named equipment holdings: BTR-82A. 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 / IFV. 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.
BangladeshArmy exact named equipment holdings: BTR-80. 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 / APC (W). 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.
BelarusArmy exact named equipment holdings: BTR-82A. 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 / IFV. 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.
BurundiArmy exact named equipment holdings: BTR-80. 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 / APC (W). 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.
ChadArmy exact named equipment holdings: BTR-80. 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 / APC (W). 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.
Colombia
DjiboutiNumber column of the Wikipedia list table under "Armored personnel carriers". The list's own wording applies; it is a compiled secondary source, not an official census.
EstoniaNumber column of the Wikipedia list table under "Vehicles". The list's own wording applies; it is a compiled secondary source, not an official census.
GeorgiaArmy exact named equipment holdings: BTR-80. 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 / APC (W). 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.
HungaryLand Component exact named equipment holdings: BTR-80. 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 / APC (W). 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.
IndonesiaReported count for BTR-80 · BTR-80A. Service scope: Indonesian Navy; 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: 12. Origin: Russia. The listed variants/roles are the scope, not an immediately deployable count. Dates are the count-cell citations' stated source period (2025), not the article revision. Cited source 2025-11-10. Edition or publication years do not claim an exact inventory census day.
IraqReported count for BTR-80. Service scope: current equipment of the Iraqi Ground 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): in service: 100. Origin: Soviet Union Russia Poland. The listed variants/roles are the scope, not an immediately deployable count. Dates are the count-cell citations' stated source period (2024), not the article revision. 2024 cited source edition. Edition or publication years do not claim an exact inventory census day.
Ivory CoastArmy exact named equipment holdings: BTR-80. 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 / APC (W). 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.
KazakhstanArmy holdings of the exact named BTR-80 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.
KyrgyzstanArmy exact named equipment holdings: BTR-80. 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 / APC (W). 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.
MoldovaArmy exact named equipment holdings: BTR-80. 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 / APC (W). 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.
MongoliaArmy exact named equipment holdings: BTR-80. 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 / APC (W). 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.
Myanmar
Nicaragua
NigeriaArmy exact named equipment holdings: BTR-80. 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 / APC (W). 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.
North KoreaReported count for BTR-80A. Service scope: Korean People's Army Ground Force; 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): quantity: 32. Origin: Russia. 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.
North MacedoniaArmy exact named equipment holdings: BTR-80. 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 / APC (W). 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.
Pakistan
RomaniaReported count for TAB B33 Zimbru. 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: 69. 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.
RussiaArmy exact named equipment holdings: BTR-80. 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 / APC (W). 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.
SerbiaReported count for BTR-80AMS. Country-wide list; no individual service specified. 1 distinct count cell(s) from the same source list; shared rowspan cells counted once. Excludes retired/reserve/on-order rows. Count column(s): quantity: 108. Origin: Russia Serbia. 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.
South KoreaArmy exact named equipment holdings: BTR-80. 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 / APC (W). 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.
Sri Lanka
SudanReported count for BTR-80A. Country-wide list; no individual service specified. 1 distinct count cell(s) from the same source list; shared rowspan cells counted once. Excludes retired/reserve/on-order rows. Count column(s): in service: 70. Origin: Russia / Sudan. 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.
Syria
TajikistanReported count for BTR-80. Service scope: Tajikistani Ground 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): in service: 20. Origin: USSR. 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 2013-05-21. Edition or publication years do not claim an exact inventory census day.
TurkmenistanArmy exact named equipment holdings: BTR-80. 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 / APC (W). 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.
Uganda
UkraineArmy exact named equipment holdings: BTR-82A. 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 / IFV. 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.
UzbekistanArmy holdings of the exact named BTR-80 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.
VenezuelaReported count for BTR-80A. Service scope: Army; 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): quantity: 114. Origin: Russia. 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.
Yemen
ZambiaArmy exact named equipment holdings: BTR-80. 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 / APC (W). 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.
Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Burundi, Chad, Colombia, Djibouti, Georgia, Hungary, Indonesia, Iraq, Ivory Coast, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nicaragua, North Korea, North Macedonia, Pakistan, Russia, Serbia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Yemen
Equipment reference ↗Reported count for BTR-82A / BTR-80A / BTR-80. Service scope: Azerbaijani Land Forces; does not replace a national total. 3 distinct count cell(s) from the same source list; shared rowspan cells counted once. Excludes retired/reserve/on-order rows. Count column(s): number: 230 / number: 187 / number: 210. Origin: Russia. 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.
Special Operations Command exact named equipment holdings of BTR-80. Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only, not a national or parent-force total or combat-readiness measure. Source role(s): ARMOURED FIGHTING VEHICLES / APC (W). No heading aggregate, carried armament, crew, payload, factory production or future order count inherited.
Army holdings of the exact named BTR-80 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.
Land Component holdings of exact named BTR-80 component: active, operational reserve and training equipment; equipment in store excluded. Service-scoped source observation, not a national total or immediate readiness. The source's combined air/air-defence organisation is retained where given. No sibling, parent, mounted-weapon or generic heading total is inherited.
Army holdings of the exact named BTR-80 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.
Army holdings of the exact named BTR-80 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.
Army holdings of the exact named BTR-80 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.
Army holdings of the exact named BTR-80 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.
Army holdings of the exact named BTR-80 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.
Naval Infantry (Marines) exact named equipment holdings of BTR-80. Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only, not a national or parent-force total or combat-readiness measure. Source role(s): ARMOURED FIGHTING VEHICLES / APC (W). No heading aggregate, carried armament, crew, payload, factory production or future order count inherited. The source declares a separate Naval Infantry (Marines) subsection within Navy.
Army holdings of the exact named BTR-80 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.
Army exact named equipment holdings of BTR-80. Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only, not a national or parent-force total or combat-readiness measure. Source role(s): ARMOURED FIGHTING VEHICLES / APC (W). No heading aggregate, carried armament, crew, payload, factory production or future order count inherited. The source marks the whole equipment section with a dagger: serviceability in doubt. Holdings are not readiness.
Army holdings of the exact named BTR-80 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.