BTR-80/82A and variants: News

Sukhoi37_Terminator wrote:What about the BTR 90?
will the production of BTR 82 influence the BTR 90`s production?

sepheronx wrote:600? is that total by 2015 for both btr-80 an 90? Or is that just 90?

Viktor wrote:Whats the price of BTR-82?

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The Military Industrial Company plans to manufacture a trial batch of new BTR-82 (BTR-82A) armored personnel carriers before the end of 2010.
“In August we expect to start the procedure of commissioning the APCs and in the fourth quarter of this year the Arzamas-based machine- building plant should manufacture a trial batch of new APCs for troop trials,” the company’s spokesman Sergei Suvorov told Interfax-AVN.
Production and delivery of the new APC to the troops could start next year, he said. “We hope that the government will make an order for BTR-82s and BTR-82€s from 2011,” Suvorov said.
The BTR-82 (BTR-82A) should replace the BTR-80 (BTR-80A), he said.
“There is no sense in producing four types of APCs for the Russian Army, because with the production of the BTR-82 (BTR-82€), there will be no more orders for the supply of BTR-80s and BTR-80As,” Suvorov said.
The production of BTR-80s (BTR-80As) might continue under contracts with foreign customers, he said.
The BTR-82 (BTR-82A) is the product of a deep upgrade of the BTR-80 (BTR-80€). The firepower of the BTR-82 (BTR-82A) APC is enhanced thanks to the installed unified armament module with electric actuators and a digital two-plane gun stabilization system coupled with a new round- the-clock optical sighting system. A 30-millimeter 2A72 gun or a 14.5- millimeter KPVT machine gun and a coaxial 7.62-millimeter PKTM machine gun can be used as the main weapon in the armament module.
Other types of artillery weapons, including foreign made, can be mounted on the unified module.
The carrier’s protection is enhanced thanks to the use of new shatterproof protection made from modern synthetic materials on the internal surfaces of the hull, including on the floor, the new energy- absorbing bottom with two-levels of protection, and special suspension seats for the crew and landing force.
A set of measures to raise the APC’s amour allowed the carrier’s endurance to be raised by 20%, to ensure protection of the crew, the APC’s units and systems protect it against armor-piercing bullets from suppressive weapons from close combat infantry units at a distance of 100-meter,s and against a second attack in case the APC’s main armor was pierced.
A more powerful diesel engine, new transmission elements and a new suspension are mounted on the new APC, which allows for increases in the vehicle’s mobility.
The new APCs retain all the water propulsion properties of their predecessors, which makes them easily capable of overcoming water barriers.

Will Russian MVD and interior army also buy BTR-82/BTR-82A or will they go on other vehicles like Tigr, Vystrel, SPM-3?

Austin wrote:The BTR-90 really looks like a bad ass , just the perfect BTR till date. I just hope they standardise on BTR-90

Vladimir79 wrote:

Austin wrote:The BTR-90 really looks like a bad ass , just the perfect BTR till date. I just hope they standardise on BTR-90

It suffers the same design problems as the BTR-80 series. Until we get a BTR that doesn't lead to soldiers sitting on the roof, we do not have an acceptable model.

Vladimir79 wrote:

Sukhoi37_Terminator wrote:What about the BTR 90?
will the production of BTR 82 influence the BTR 90`s production?

We are still procuring BTR-90 and getting major upgrades in 2011. The total procurement by 2015 is only 600 so I doubt if it will cut into it.