A picture of the new BTR-87 armored personnel carrier found on the web

13:2724 Mar, 2016 4054

Appearance of the new Russian BTR-87 armored personnel carrier has come to light.

Picture of the vehicle’s trial model was found in the official 2015 presentation on the development of the OJSC ‘Zavod Korpusov’. This enterprise is situated in Vyksa, Nizhny Novgorod oblast, and operates within the LLC ‘Military Industrial Company’ of the Gaz Group.    

The BTR-87 is a heavily upgraded BTR-82A vehicle, which differs from the BTR-80/BTR-82 family in arrangement of frontal engine compartment and rear personnel compartment. Accordingly, the vehicle has a brand new armored hull. The trial model is equipped with a standard BPPU combat module with the 2A72 30 mm automatic gun and the PKTM 7.62 mm machine gun, the bmpd military blog says.  

Photo: milindcom.ru

It is known that the BTR-87 was developed on the initiative basis, mainly to promote the vehicle abroad. A closed official presentation of the BTR-87 was held as part of the ‘Army-2015’ forum in Kubinka in June of 2015.

We remind that the BTR-82A has increased armor and combat power as well as air conditioners. It is equipped with the 2A72 30 mm automatic gun and the PKT 7.62 mm machine-gun. The vehicle’s top road speed is 80 kmh, the swimming speed is 10 kmh. Trial models were made in 2009 and tested in winter of 2010. After that, they entered service in 2011.   

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