Ukraine Reveals of BTR-4CS-T Wheeled Armored Vehicles for the Royal Thai Navy

08 November 2021

BTR-4CS-T for the Royal Thai Navy (all photos : Kiev Armored Plant)

Facebook account of Kiev Armored Plant, a subsidiary of Ukrainian armored vehicle builder Ukroboronprom - the Ukrainian Defence  Industry Group has published pictures of the completion of the assembly of its new BTR-4 family of armored vehicles on November 5, 2021.

Designated as a wheeled armored vehicle that controls The BTR-4CS-T (or BTR-4KSh-T in Ukrainian literally) is based on the export version of the BTR-4U 8x8 APC (Armoured Personnel Carrier) wheeled armored vehicle.

Designed by Ukrainian subsidiary Kharkiv Morozov Machine Building Design Bureau(KMDB) Ukroboronprom, the final presentation is scheduled to be presented to the customer on November 12, 2021, and the final customer handover will take place in early December 2021.

No further details are available at the time of this writing. But local Ukrainian media reported that The BTR-4CS-T 8x8 wheeled command vehicle that appears to be at least finished, one such vehicle was built for the Royal Thai Navy (RTN) identified as a customer.

It is based on technical documentation developed by the designers of the Kiev Armored Plant and KMDB in 2020, which is used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces itself, designated as the BTR-4KShM wheeled armored vehicle.

The BTR-4KShM wheeled armored vehicle has been expanded to accommodate the installation of communications equipment,  command and control tactical network including antenna for use as a vehicle that controls movement by a vehicle supporting a total of 8 personnel (1 driver).

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