Armoured personnel carrier · Land · Arzamas Machine-Building Plant · Soviet Union
Wikidata: armored personnel carrier
- Operators among the 24
- 3
- Active, across the 24
- 424
- On order, across the 24
- 0
- In service since
- 1972
Catalogue entry
- Designation
- BTR-70
- First flight or launch
- –
- In service
- 1972
- Retired
- –
- Generation
- –
- Unit cost (US dollars)
- not published in Wikidata
- Manufacturers
- Arzamas Machine-Building Plant
- Wikidata classes
- combat vehicle family
- Identifiers
- Q159927 · factbase.org/sys/YNXZNYFH04 · Wikipedia
Dates, makers and classes from Wikidata (CC0); specifications stop at what Wikipedia and the manufacturer publish.
Variants
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.
217
200
7
| Nation | Active | Reserve | On order | Variants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ukraine | 217 | BTR-70 BTR-70M BTR-7 | ||
| Russia | 200 | |||
| United States | 7 |
Transfers
Deliveries recorded by the SIPRI Arms Transfers Database, by year, to every recipient. Derived figures only; source: SIPRI Arms Transfers Database.
Recipients: East Germany (1,266), United Nations** (452), Afghanistan (360), Romania (168), Azerbaijan (150), Sudan (81), North Macedonia (60), Kyrgyzstan (60), Occupied Palestinian territory (50), Mongolia (50), Nicaragua (43), Georgia (30), Tajikistan (29), Angola (29), Zambia (20), Ghana (20), Mali (17), Liberia (8), United States (7), Ivory Coast (4), Somalia (3).
Related platforms
In the same category, in service within 15 years
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