BTR, from Bronetransportyor/Bronetransporter, is any of a series of Soviet or post-Soviet military armoured personnel carriers.
BTR-40 APC in Yad la-Shiryon Museum, Israel, 2005
BTR-4 assigned to Ukrainian Armed Forces
The BTR-40 is a Soviet open-topped, wheeled armoured personnel carrier and reconnaissance vehicle. It is often referred to as the Sorokovka in Soviet service. It was eventually replaced in the APC rol
BTR (vehicle)
…бронетранспортер, lit. 'armoured transporter'), is any of a series of Soviet or post-Soviet military armoured personnel carriers (APCs). BTR-40 – Armoured 4×4 truck (1950s) based on GAZ-63 four wheel drive truck. BTR-40P – Another name for the BRDM-1. BTR-40PB – Another name for the BRDM-2…
BTR-40 at a public exhibit in Poland, 2008
A Soviet BTR-40 in Budapest during the Hungarian Uprising of 1956
Ex-Egyptian BTR-40 captured by the royalist guerrillas during the North Yemen Civil War