BTR-94

BTR-94
Type	Armoured personnel carrier
Place of origin	Ukraine
Service history
Used by	Jordan, Iraq
Wars	Iraq War
Production history
Designed	1994–1997
Manufacturer	Malyshev Factory
Produced	1999–2000
No. built	50
Specifications
Mass	13.6 tonnes
Length	7.65 m
Width	2.90 m
Height	2.80 m
Crew	3 +10 passengers
Armour	Classified
Main armament	twin 23x152mm 2A7M cannon
Secondary armament	7.62 mm PKT machine gun
Engine	diesel engine 300 hp
Suspension	wheeled 8×8
Ground clearance	475 mm
Fuel capacity	300 litres
Operational range	600 km
Speed	85 km/h, 9 km/h swim

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

Description

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

A map of BTR-94 operators in blue

Current operators

•  Iraq - Iraq received 50 BTR-94's donated by Jordan in 2004 for use by the Mechanized Police Brigade.^[2]

Former operators

•  Jordan - Jordan ordered 50 BTR-94's in 1999,^[3] the last vehicles were delivered in February 2000.^[4]

See also

• BTR-152
• BTR-60, BTR-70, BTR-80, BTR-90, BTR-3, BTR-4

References

External links

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

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