Engineering:TAB (armoured personnel carrier)

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TAB (Romanian: Transportor Amfibiu Blindat, translated Amphibious Armoured Personnel Carrier) is the Romanian military designation of armoured personnel carriers. The TAB APCs were based on the Russia n BTR series until the early 1990s, with several improvements, including better diesel engines. After 1990, new TAB designs have been developed, such as the RN-94 and the Saur series, but none of these designs entered mass production.

Models

A Soviet BTR-60PB APC (left) and a Romanian TAB-71 APC (right) on display at "King Ferdinand" National Military Museum in Bucharest.
  • TAB-63 - prototype, predecessor of TAB-71
  • TAB-71 - based on BTR-60.[1] 1872 copies manufactured. In 2010, Romania owned 846 TAB-71 transporters, 375 being in use. Some transferred to Moldova. The TAB-71 vehicles will be decommissioned, scrapped and gradually replaced by the future TBT 8×8 (Saur 3) armoured personnel carrier, the development of which was started on March 17, 2011.
  • TAB-77 - based on BTR-70[2]
  • TABC-79 - 4×4 version of TAB-77[1]
  • B-33 Zimbru - based on BTR-80
  • RN-94 - a joint Romanian-Turkish design, small numbers of the MEDEVAC version were delivered to Bangladesh[3] (6×6 version)
  • Zimbru 2000 - proposed upgrade of B-33 Zimbru (prototype)
  • Saur 1 - prototype, 8×8
  • Saur 2 - prototype, 8×8
  • Saur 3 - proposed design, 8×8
  • Saur 4 - proposed design, 4×4

Gallery

  • TAB-63
  • TAB-71M
  • TAB-77
  • TABC-79

  • TAB B-33 Zimbru

  • RN-94

  • Zimbru 2000

  • Saur 1

  • Saur 2

Notes and references

Notes
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 O'Malley, T. J., Hutchins, Ray, pag. 48
  2. ↑ O'Malley, T. J., Hutchins, Ray, pag. 50
  3. ↑ Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
References
  • Foss, Christopher F. (2005). Jane's Armour and Artillery 2005-2006. Jane's Information Group. ISBN 978-0-7106-2686-8. 
  • Bishop, Chris (2006). The Encyclopedia of Tanks and Armored fighting vehicles: From World War I to The Present Day. Grange Book. ISBN 978-1-59223-626-8. 
  • O'Malley, T. J., Hutchins, Ray (1996). Fighting Vehicles: Armoured Personnel Carriers & Infantry Fighting Vehicles. Greenhill Books. ISBN 1-85367-211-4. 

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