Armoured personnel carrier · Land · Volgograd Tractor Factory · Soviet Union
Wikidata: 1950s armored personnel carrier of Soviet origin
- Operators among the 24
- 3
- Active, across the 24
- 428
- On order, across the 24
- 0
- In service since
- 1954
Catalogue entry
- Designation
- BTR-50
- First flight or launch
- –
- In service
- 1954
- Retired
- –
- Generation
- –
- Unit cost (US dollars)
- not published in Wikidata
- Manufacturers
- Volgograd Tractor Factory
- Also seen as
- Amphibious assault ship
- Wikidata classes
- combat vehicle family
- Identifiers
- Q682951 · factbase.org/sys/NWSQ7CR869 · Wikipedia
Dates, makers and classes from Wikidata (CC0); specifications stop at what Wikipedia and the manufacturer publish.
Operators
Each of the 24 nations that holds the platform, with its active count (variants summed). A nation that holds it with no published count shows no bar.
Transfers
Deliveries recorded by the SIPRI Arms Transfers Database, by year, to every recipient. Derived figures only; source: SIPRI Arms Transfers Database.
Recipients: Iran (852), Bulgaria (700), Afghanistan (660), Egypt (600), Syria (550), Vietnam (400), Iraq (250), East Germany (200), Poland (200), India (200), Hungary (150), Algeria (130), Yugoslavia (120), Finland (118), Indonesia (100), South Yemen (100), Libya (96), Angola (92), North Korea (50), Sudan (50), Somalia (30), SLA (Lebanon)* (20), Peru (10), Guinea (10), Liberia (8), Nicaragua (1).
Related platforms
- Basis of: Makran
In the same category, in service within 15 years
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