Iraqi modernization BTR-80UP

According to "Messenger of Mordovia", In the Internet space posted an interesting photograph, which captures the Iraqi armored personnel carrier BTR-80UP with a turret from the BMP-1, equipped with an 73-mm smoothbore 2-28 "Thunder" and a PKT machine gun of the 7,62-mm caliber. On closer examination, you can notice another small turret located above the hatch, apparently with machine guns.

Also, the undercarriage of the equipment is covered with steel sheets, in front of the hatches of the driver and the commander are mounted anti-cumulative lattice screens.

BTR-80UP were acquired by Iraq in the 2005 year in Ukraine in the amount of 100 units. As stated, their cost was approximately 30 million. Repairs and upgrades were carried out in Nikolaev on the basis of technical maintenance and repair of armored personnel carriers. Poland played the role of an intermediary in this transaction, and therefore the cars received the designation UE (Ukrainian-Polish). Their distinctive feature is the presence of hinged armor protection covering the forehead and side. Additional load has increased the weight of the machine, and therefore it has lost the ability to overcome water obstacles. For this reason, the relied water cannon was dismantled.

The standard equipment of the BTR-80UP is represented by a BPU-1 turret with a 14,5-mm KPVT machine gun, a 7,62-mm twin PKTM and six 81-mm smoke grenade launchers. The machine is equipped with a new D-80 engine with an 300 horsepower. Changed tire inflation system.

Comments

[Banishing liberoids]

They needed to buy things from the world right away with us and would not have steamed with spare parts, with service, and now the Ukpolyaks are now trading like hucksters — if you would only push equipment, and there the grass would not grow.

[cost]

The Poles found the Ukrainians an opportunity to earn extra money, for which they honestly received their percentage

[Captain Pushkin]

Ukrainians treated the stocks of Soviet technology much more prudently than ours.
What we sawed for scrap, Ukraine sold right and left, everything: fighters, transport planes, tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, armored personnel carriers, artillery, ATGMs, air defense systems, ammunition of the entire nomenclature, etc. etc.
The Chechen campaign yearned for our MiG-27s, which were irreplaceable, as it turned out, in mountainous terrain, while the Ukrainians fought in Sri Lanka at that time, we had no ammunition for any serious war, the Syrian war showed it. Not only were the ammunition stocks “disposed of”, but the production of ammunition was destroyed in the trash.
And the organization of the production of ammunition is much more complicated than the production of weapons.
At the same time, Ukrainians supplied ammunition to almost all of the planet’s hot spots.
About spare parts, service and especially upgrading for our foreign customers, this is a separate song. Very sad ...
Somewhere at the memorial ...
If we had responsible experts in the arms trade who were not prone to theft and acting in the interests of the State, then sales could, if not double, then increase by a factor of XNUMX a minimum.

[31rus4]

Dear, since 2005, 100 pieces are still alive, it’s interesting about the protection and screens, and the version with the 73mm cannon has already proved its over-the-counter, it's more like a police

[bald]

"... I blinded him, from what was ...." The main thing is he shoots and is used by his soldiers with experience.

[Santa bear]

Well, the 73mm Thunder gun is essentially an LNG9 which is put on technique in a banshee. In the Middle East, in Africa, in the Donbass, and indeed in conflicts of low intensity, it is still in use and in the absence of heavy enemy armored vehicles is quite effective for itself.

[tank66]

Can they have cucumbers to Thunder, like a fool shag. And their cardboard and half-brick houses full of holes - that’s it ..