BTR-80

Armoured personnel carrier, Soviet Union. In service since 1986

How to recognise it

Eight wheels, boat-shaped hull, small conical machine-gun turret, side doors between the second and third axles.

Used by

Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and others

Same family

Naming one of these instead still scores family points.

• BTR-82A

Other apcs

• AMPV
• Boxer
• BTR-4
• BTR-60
• BTR-70
• BvS10 Viking
• M113
• MT-LB
• Namer
• Pandur II
• Patria AMV
• Patria XA-180 / XA-185

All 19 apcs

Sources

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• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BTR-80