Fading Into Oblivion: Belarus Fighting Vehicle List

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By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans

The possible participation of Belarus in the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian War has been speculated about on more than one occasion. Yet others argue that Belarus is already a participant in the war simply by allowing Russia to stage a part of the invasion from its territory and by allowing Russian missile launchers stationed inside the country to fire at targets inside Ukraine. Nonetheless, with a direct Belarusian participation in the war all but certain to trigger a chain of events that would ultimately see the end of the Belarusian regime, President Lukashenko is likely to do everything in his power to prevent an increased Belarusian participation (i.e. providing troops) in the war in Ukraine.

For all the talk of war, fairly little information has been devulged about the status of the Belarusian Army. The Belarusian Armed Forces, much like Ukraine prior to the 2014 Russian takeover of Crimea and the War in Donbas, has seen a gradual decline of its combat capabilities due to numerous downsizings and the retirement of ageing equipment with no replacements. But while the Ukrainian Armed Forces managed to secure enough funding to at least undertake a number of upgrade projects of its slowly dilapidating inventory, Belarus has failed to allocate any substantive budget whatsoever to keep its extant armament from fading into oblivion.

Though Belarusian defence enterprises have come up with a number of modernisation programmes to address the widespread obsolescence of the Belarusian Army's equipment inventory, a lack of funding has meant that very little of these have ever been acquired by Belarus itself. Much of the scarcely available funding has been used for the purchase of combat aircraft and air defence systems, most often acquired at friendly prices from Russia. The Ground Forces have been the recipient of 25 T-72B3 Obr. 2016 MBTs and some 65 BTR-82A IFVs from Russia, while China has donated 22 EQ2058s and an unknown number of CS/VN3 IMVs since 2012. China is also the source of the technology behind the Belarusian Polonez guided MRL/SRBM system, which entered service with the Belarusian Army in 2015.

Products of the country's well-established defence industry have also found their way into the inventory of the Ground Forces in limited numbers. The Caiman reconnaissance vehicle (a modern derivate of the BRDM-2) and the Volat-1 IMV have both been accepted into service while the Russian Tigr-M IMV entered production in Belarus as the Lis-PM, with small numbers of them entering service with the Belarusian Army. A number of BTR-70 APCs have also been upgraded BTR-70MB1 standard. These BTRs subsequently entered service with Belarus' Airborne and Air Assault Brigades, replacing the BMD-1 IFVs and BTR-D APCs previously in use.

This list attempts to list all AFV types currently in service with the Belarusian Army. This list only includes AFVs visually confirmed to be in service with Belarus' Armed Forces. Products of the country's arms industry that haven't actually entered service with the Belarusian Armed Forces are not included in this list, neither are trucks and jeeps.

(Click on the equipment to get a picture of them in Belarusian service)

Tanks

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Clik here to view.T-72 'Ural' (Limited numbers still used for training)
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Clik here to view.T-72A Early (Limited numbers still used for training. Others in reserve)
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Clik here to view.T-72A Mid (Limited numbers still used for training. Others in reserve)
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Clik here to view.T-72A Late (Limited numbers still used for training. Others in reserve)
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Clik here to view.T-72AV
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Clik here to view.T-72B (Can be equipped with slat armour, cope cage and cope bucket)
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Clik here to view.T-72B Obr. 1990
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Clik here to view.T-72B3 Obr. 2016

Armoured Fighting Vehicles

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Clik here to view.BRM-1 (Believed to have been decommissioned)
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Clik here to view.Caiman
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Clik here to view.MT-LB

Infantry Fighting Vehicles

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Clik here to view.BMP-1(P) (Limited numbers still used for training. Others in reserve)
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Clik here to view.BMP-2 Obr. 1980 (Can be equipped with slat armour)
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Clik here to view.BMP-2 Obr. 1984 (Can be equipped with slat armour)
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Clik here to view.BMD-1 (Decommissioned after their replacement by the BTR-70MB1 APC and placed in reserve)
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Clik here to view.BTR-82A

Armoured Personnel Carriers

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Clik here to view.BTR-D (Decommissioned after their replacement by the BTR-70MB1 APC and placed in reserve)
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Clik here to view.BTR-70
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Clik here to view.BTR-70MB1 (Can be equipped with slat armour)
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Clik here to view.BTR-80 (Can be equipped with slat armour)

Infantry Mobility Vehicles

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Clik here to view.GAZ Tigr-M ''Lis-PM''
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Clik here to view.MZKT-4190100 Volat V1
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Clik here to view.DongFeng EQ2050F ''Bogatyr'' (Can be fitted with an Adunok RWS)
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Clik here to view.Dajiang CS/VN3 ''Drakon''

Command Posts And Communications Stations

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Clik here to view.BMP-1KSh Command And Staff Vehicle
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Clik here to view.R-145BM1 Command Vehicle
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Clik here to view.BTR-60PU-12M Air Defence Command Vehicle
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Clik here to view.9S470 Air Defence Command Post (For Buk)
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Clik here to view. 9S457 Air Defence Command Post (For S-300V) (Not yet seen)
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Clik here to view.R-142 Communications Station
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Clik here to view.P-240MB Caiman-KAS Communications Station
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Clik here to view.R-186 Bogatyr-2 Communications Station
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Clik here to view.R-186 Drakon Communications Station
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Clik here to view.R-443 Voskhod Communications Station
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Clik here to view.R-434 Communications Station
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Clik here to view.R-414MBRP Sosna-2 Communications Station
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Clik here to view.Gorizont Troposcatter
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Clik here to view.Unknown Communications Vehicle (1)
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Clik here to view.Unknown Communications Vehicle (2)

Engineering Vehicles And Equipment

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Clik here to view.BREM-1 Armoured Recovery Vehicle
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Clik here to view.BTS-4A Armoured Recovery Vehicle
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Clik here to view.BREM-Ch ''BREM-4'' Armoured Recovery Vehicle
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Clik here to view.BREM-K Armoured Recovery Vehicle
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Clik here to view.IMR-2(M) Combat Engineering Vehicle
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Clik here to view.BAT-2 Heavy Engineering Vehicle
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Clik here to view.MDK-3 Trench-Digging Vehicle
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Clik here to view.PTS-2 Tracked Amphibious Transport
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Clik here to view.UR-67 Mine Clearing Charge
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Clik here to view.UR-77 'Meteorit' Mine Clearing Vehicle
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Clik here to view.PZM-2 Trench Digger
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Clik here to view.IRM 'Zhuk' Engineer Reconnaissance Vehicle
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Clik here to view.BRDM-2RKh Chemical Reconnaissance Vehicle
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Clik here to view.GMZ-3 Minelayer
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Clik here to view.ZS-82 PsyOps Vehicle
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Clik here to view.T-55 Firefighting Tank
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Clik here to view.BMM-80 "Simfoniya" Armoured Ambulance
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Clik here to view.PMP Floating Bridge
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Clik here to view.TMM-3 Bridgelayer

Artillery And Air Defence Support Vehicles

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Clik here to view.PRP-3 'Val' Artillery Reconnaissance Vehicle (Likely to have been decommissioned)
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Clik here to view.1V18 'Klyon-1' Artillery Command And Forward Observer Vehicle (Likely to have been decommissioned)
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Clik here to view.1V13(M) Battery Fire Control Center
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Clik here to view.1V14 Battery Command And Forward Observer Vehicle
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Clik here to view.9T452 Transporter-Loader (For BM-27 'Uragan' MRL)
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Clik here to view.9T234-2 Transporter-Loader (For BM-30 'Smerch' MRL)
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Clik here to view. V-200TZM Transporter-Loader (For Polonez MRL)
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Clik here to view.9T217 Transloader (For 9K33 Osa SAM System)

Self-Propelled Anti-Tank Missile Systems

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Clik here to view.9P149 Shturm-S

Towed Artillery

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Clik here to view.100mm MT-12 Rapira Anti-Tank Gun
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Clik here to view.122mm D-30 Howitzer
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Clik here to view.152mm D-20 Howitzer
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Clik here to view.152mm 2A65 Msta-B Howitzer
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Clik here to view.152mm 2A36 Giatsint-B Field-Gun

Self-Propelled Artillery

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Clik here to view.120mm 2S9 Nona (Decommissioned and placed in reserve)
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Clik here to view.122mm 2S1 Gvozdika
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Clik here to view.152mm 2S3(M) Akatsiya
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Clik here to view.152mm 2S5 Giatsint-S
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Clik here to view.152mm 2S19 Msta-S

Multiple Rocket Launchers

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Clik here to view.122mm BM-21 'Grad'
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Clik here to view.122mm BM-21A 'BelGrad'
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Clik here to view.220mm BM-27 Uragan
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Clik here to view.300mm BM-30 Smerch

Guided Multiple Rocket Launchers

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Clik here to view.Polonez [Range: 200km] [CEP: 30m] (Chinese-designed A200 guided rocket produced in Belarus)
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Clik here to view.Polonez-M [Range: 290km] [CEP: 45m] (Chinese-designed A300 guided rocket produced in Belarus)

Short-Range Ballistic Missiles

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Clik here to view.OTR-21 Tochka-U [Range: 120km] [CEP: 95m] (Slated for replacement by the Chinese-designed M20 SRBM fired from the Polonez launcher)

Anti-Aircraft Guns

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Clik here to view.14.5mm ZPU-4
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Clik here to view.23mm ZU-23

Self-Propelled Anti-Aircraft Guns

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Clik here to view.23mm ZU-23 On Truck
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Clik here to view.23mm BTR-ZD 'Skrezhet' (Decommissioned and placed in reserve)
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Clik here to view.30mm 2K22(M) Tunguska

Static Surface-To-Air Missile (SAM) Systems

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Clik here to view.S-300PT [Range: 75km]

Self-Propelled Surface-To-Air Missile (SAM) Systems

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Clik here to view.9K35 Strela-10 [Range: 5km]
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Clik here to view.9K33 Osa [Range: 15km]
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Clik here to view.Tor-M2K [Range: 16km]
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Clik here to view.9K37 Buk [Range: 25km]
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Clik here to view.S-300PS [Range: 90km]
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Clik here to view.S-300V [Range: 100km]

Electronic Warfare Systems

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Clik here to view.SPN-30
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Clik here to view. Groza R-934UM2 'Groza-6'

Radars

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Clik here to view.P-18 'Spoon Rest D'
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Clik here to view.P-35/37 'Bar Lock'
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Clik here to view.PRV-9 'Thin Skin E'
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Clik here to view.PRV-16 'Thin Skib B'
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Clik here to view.36D6 'Tin Shield'
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Clik here to view.55ZH6 'Tall Rack'
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Clik here to view.1L22 'Parol'
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Clik here to view.1S80 'Sborka' PPRU ''Dog Ear''
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Clik here to view.Rosa-RB-M Ashuluk
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Clik here to view.Vostok-3D
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Clik here to view.Protivnik-GE
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Clik here to view.9S18 'Kupol''Tube Arm' (for Buk)
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Clik here to view.30N6 'Flad Lid' (For S-300PT and S-300PS)Two configurations: (2)
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Clik here to view.76N6 'Clam Shell' (For S-300PT and S-300PS)
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Clik here to view.91N6 'Big Bird' (For S-300PT and S-300PS)
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Clik here to view. 9S15M 'Bill Board A' (For S-300V) (No image available)

Surveillance Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

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