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Armored Personnel Carriers · Land · operated by 2 countries on the map · 370 units on record

A Cold War-era, fully amphibious tracked armoured personnel carrier jointly developed by Czechoslovakia and Poland in the late 1950s, drawing on licensed Soviet BTR-50 technology. It entered service in 1962, swims on its own water jets, and carries a crew plus roughly a dozen infantry. It was exported to several developing-world operators including Sudan, though only small, largely inactive number

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Operators

Country	Branch	Quantity
Egypt	Egyptian Army	300	on the map →
Sudan	Sudanese Army	70	on the map →

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