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Armoured vehicles1974–present
Airborne Amphibious Multi-Purpose Tracked Armoured Personnel Carrier
BTR-D is a airborne Amphibious Multi-Purpose Tracked Armoured Personnel Carrier originating in Soviet Union / Russia. It was built by Volgograd Tractor Factory. Reported operators include Moldova, Russia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan.
Soviet Union / RussiaAirborne Amphibious Multi-Purpose Tracked Armoured Personnel Carrier
Soviet Union / Russia
1974–present
See Operators
Soviet–Afghan War Transnistrian War First Chechen War Second Chechen War Russo-Ukrainian war
Volgograd Tractor Factory
Early 1970–1974
Volgograd Tractor Factory
1974 – ? (out of production)
See Variants
8 tonnes 8.5 tonnes (combat weight)
6.74 m (22.1 ft)
2.94 m
1.67 m
3 (commander, driver and bow machine gunner) (+ 10 troops)
15 mm at 78° upper hull front
Pintle-mounted automatic grenade launchers ( AGS-17 , AGS-30 or AGS-57) and/or machine guns ( PKM , 6P41 , " Utyos "," Kord "or”(Type 920G Tucha 81 mm smoke grenade launching system)”.
2×7.62 mm PKB bow general purpose machine guns (2,000 rounds)
5D-20 6-cylinder 4-stroke V-shaped liquid cooled 15.9-litre diesel 245 hp (180 kW) at 2,600 rpm
30.1 hp/tonne (22.5 kW/tonne) 28.4 hp/tonne (21.3 kW/tonne) (loaded with equipment)
torsion-bar
Adjustable 100 mm to 450 mm
300 l
500 km (road) 116 km (water)
61 km/h (road) 35 km/h (cross country) 10 km/h (swimming)
Moldova
Russia
Ukraine
Uzbekistan
Reference text from Wikipedia contributors, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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| 28 Sept 2026 | 6.74 m | Wikipedia contributors | superseded |
BTR-D equipment records. Variants, orders and quantities are shown as reported in each inventory source; coverage is incomplete.
AzerbaijanNumber column of the Wikipedia list table under "Armored personnel carrier". The list's own wording applies; it is a compiled secondary source, not an official census.
MoldovaArmy exact named equipment holdings: BTR-D. 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 (T). 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.
Russia
UkraineAirborne Assault Troops exact named equipment holdings: BTR-D. 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 (T). 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 exact named equipment holdings: BTR-D. 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 (T). 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-D 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-D 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.