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BTR-94

armored personnel carrier

The BTR-94 is a Ukrainian amphibious armoured personnel carrier (Bronetransporter), a modification of the Soviet eight-wheeled BTR-80.

== Description == The BTR-94's turret BAU-23x2 is larger than the BTR-80's BPU-1. It is fitted with a twin 23x152mm gun 2A7M with 200 rounds, a coaxial KT-7.62 machine gun with 2,000 rounds, six 81 mm smoke grenade launchers and a combined 1PZ-7-23 optical sight. Each 2A7M gun has a max. rate of fire of 850 rds/min. The same gun is mounted on the ZSU-23-4. The BAU-23x2 module can be mounted on other armoured vehicles like the BTR-70 or Ratel IFV.

Operators

=== Current operators === Iraq - Iraq received 50 BTR-94s donated by Jordan in 2004 for use by the Mechanized Police Brigade.

=== Former operators === Jordan - Jordan ordered 50 BTR-94s in 1999, the last vehicles were delivered in February 2000.

== See also == BTR-152 BTR-60, BTR-70, BTR-80, BTR-90, BTR-3, BTR-4

References

External links

BTR-94 at Ukrspetsexport Morozov's site about BAU-23 Development of Ukrainian armour

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