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Armoured personnel carrier
BTR-94
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Type
| Armoured personnel carrier
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Place of origin
| Ukraine
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Used by
| Jordan
,
Iraq
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Wars
| Iraq War
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Designed
| 1994?1997
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Manufacturer
| Malyshev Factory
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Produced
| 1999?2000
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No.
built
| 50
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Mass
| 13.6 tonnes
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Length
| 7.65 m
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Width
| 2.90 m
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Height
| 2.80 m
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Crew
| 3 +10 passengers
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Armor
| Classified
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Main
armament
| twin
23x152mm
2A7M cannon
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Secondary
armament
| 7.62 mm
PKT machine gun
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Engine
| diesel engine
300 hp
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Suspension
| wheeled 8×8
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Ground clearance
| 475 mm
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Fuel capacity
| 300 litres
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Operational
range
| 600 km
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| 85 km/h, 9 km/h swim
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The
BTR-94
is a
Ukrainian
amphibious
armoured personnel carrier
(
Bronetransporter
), a modification of the
Soviet
eight-wheeled
BTR-80
.
Description
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The BTR-94's turret BAU-23x2
[1]
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
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A map of BTR-94 operators in blue
Current operators
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Iraq
- Iraq received 50 BTR-94s donated by
Jordan
in 2004 for use by the Mechanized Police Brigade.
[2]
Former operators
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Jordan
- Jordan ordered 50 BTR-94s in 1999,
[3]
the last vehicles were delivered in February 2000.
[4]
See also
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References
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External links
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BTR-94
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