The thinly-protected, 1950s-vintage BTR-50 might not be the worst vehicle the Russian army has sent in a direct assault on Ukrainian positions, but it’s probably the oldest. And while it’s safer for ...

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Recent photos show Russia is dredging deep into its huge inventory of rusting Soviet armored vehicles to reactivate BTR-50P amphibious armored personnel carriers, which were built over a half century ...

A BTR-90 in Ukraine. The Arzamas Machine Building Plant, in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast just east of Moscow, built fewer than a dozen BTR-90 wheeled fighting vehicles starting in 1994. The eight-wheel, ...

The Russian military has continued to respond to heavy armoured vehicle losses by deploying vintage equipment that presents many vulnerabilities on the modern battlefield. Source: European Pravda; UK ...

Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has modified an BTR-50 armoured personnel carrier by altering the shape of its hull and fitting the turret from a BMP-2 infantry fighting vehicle (IFV).