The Military Industrial Company exported a batch of BTR-82A armored personnel carriers to Belarus. About it Interfax said the general director of “VPK” Alexander Krasovitsky.

“Armored vehicles of the Tiger family, as well as our armored personnel carriers BTR-80 and BTR-82A, are in great demand among foreign customers. We have recently delivered a batch of BTR-82A to our Belarusian partners. Due to a number of circumstances, I have no right to name the number, ”he said.

According to Krasovitsky, the company has been producing the BTR-82A for more than ten years “and during this period, more than 700 improvements have been made to the design that improve the consumer properties of the product.”

He also noted that “the modernization of armored personnel carriers BTR-80 / 82A and armored vehicles of the” Tiger “family is far from being exhausted.”

Formerly The National Interest named A “Christmas present” is the delivery of Russian armored personnel carriers BTR-82A to Belarus. A new batch of armored vehicles was delivered in advance, the BTR-82A became part of a mechanized brigade stationed in the Grodno region bordering Poland and Lithuania.

In addition to conventional armored personnel carriers, the Belarusian military received a special version – the BTR-80K. This armored vehicle is the role of the command post of the unit.