page_title: BRDM-2
section_title: Current operators
hierarchical_section_title: BRDM-2 / Operators / Current operators
caption_attribution_description: Missile launch of a 9P133 Malyutka at Babadag firing range during the strategic exercise "DACIA 2010" of the Romanian Army. The photo was taken on 1 November 2010.
context_page_description: The BRDM-2 is an amphibious armoured patrol car used by Russia and the former Soviet Union. It was also known under the designations BTR-40PB, BTR-40P-2 and GAZ 41-08. This vehicle, like many other Soviet designs, has been exported extensively and is in use in at least 38 countries. It was intended to replace the earlier BRDM-1, compared to which it had improved amphibious capabilities and better armament.
context_section_description:  Afghanistan: Mostly captured vehicles from the war with the Soviet Union; some were vehicles abandoned by retreating Soviet forces, others were derelict vehicles left by the Soviets all over Afghanistan and brought back to working condition.
   Algeria: 60 BRDM-2 and 64 9P122 "Malyutka".
   Angola: 50
   Armenia: 120
   Azerbaijan: 29
   Belarus
   Bosnia-Herzegovina
   Bulgaria: 200
   Burundi
   Cambodia: 200
   Cameroon: 31
   Cape Verde
   Cuba: 100 BRDM-2 used for the special forces and 50 modernized with a 120 mm mortar
   Czech Republic: BRDM-2RKh and 9P31
   Djibouti
   Egypt: 300 BRDM-2, BRDM-2UM + 100 modernized to BRDM-2M96i by Poland.
   Eritrea
   Georgia: 17
   Guinea: 4 delivered by Ukraine in 1998.
   Hungary
   India
   Indonesia
   Iraq: The Iraqi Army uses a number of BRDM-2 armed with ZPU-2 twin 14.5 mm KPV antiaircraft heavy machine guns (See Iraq section for details). Ukraine delivered 13 BRDM-2 armoured scout cars to the Iraqi Army in 2006. The Iraqi Regular Army operated 1,300 BRDM-1 and BRDM-2 armoured scout cars and vehicles based on them.
   Kurdistan: Peshmerga
   Ivory Coast: 13 delivered by Belarus between 2002 and 2003.
   Kyrgyzstan: 9 upgraded BRDM-2MS vehicles donated by Russia in April 2019.
   Laos: at least 10 upgraded BRDM-2MS supplied by Russia in late 2018 - January 2020.
   Libya: 350; refurbished by a Czech firm in 2013.
   Macedonia: 10
   Madagascar: 2
   Maldives
   Mali: 20 – 64 delivered by USSR and Bulgaria but many of them lost during fights
   Moldova: 27
   Transnistria
   Mongolia: 120 BRDM-2 and BRDM-2Rkh
   Myanmar: 33 BRDM-2M received in early 2020.
   Namibia: 12 total in use with the Namibian Defence Force, most inherited directly from PLAN or captured models in the custody of the former South West African administration.
   North Korea
   Palestine: 45 BRDM-2 delivered by Russia to the Palestinian Authority Police in 1995, later seized by Hamas following the Battle of Gaza in June 2007.
   Pakistan: Captured from Afghan government forces & brought to Pakistan after the Soviet Afghan war. Currently in Reserve.
   Peru: Late production BDRM-2 model and 9P133 ATGM launcher.
   Poland: 115 BRDM-2s, ~110 BRDM-2s modernized to BRDM-2M-96 and BRDM-2M-96i, 37 BRDM-2s modernized to BRDM-2M-97 "Żbik-B" and 1 modernized to BRDM-2M-98 "Żbik-A" level, 54 BRDM-2s modernized to BRDM-2M-96ik "Szakal" level, 27 9P133 "Malyutka" and 18 9P148 "Konkurs" tank destroyers, 98 BRDM-2 R-5 command vehicles, a dozen of BRDM-2RS NBC reconnaissance vehicles, an unknown number of BRDM-2 R-1A command vehicles.
   Romania: 138 (12 9P122 "Malyutka", 78 9P133 "Malyutka" and 48 9P148 Konkurs)
   Russia: 2,000 as of 2011. Around 2,080 as of 2013.
   Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic: Late production BDRM-2 model and 9P31 SAM launcher.
   Serbia: 46 + 30 more upgraded BRDM-2MS (Donation of Russia during 2019)
   Slovakia
   Slovenia: 5 late production BDRM-2s. Command company of 44th Armored-mechanized Battalion "Wolves" operates BRDM-2 vehicles.
   Somalia
   Sudan: 60 delivered by Belarus between 2003 and 2004 (39 in 2003 and 21 in 2004).
   Syria: 950
   Tajikistan: About 10 upgraded BRDM-2MS (Donation of Russia in 2019)
   Tanzania: 40 delivered in 1978-1979, ~10 available in 2019
   Turkmenistan: 30
   Ukraine: Delivered 13 BRDM-2 armoured scout cars to the New Iraqi Army in 2006.
   Vietnam: 200
   Zambia
   Zimbabwe
caption: Romanian 9P133 "Malyutka" launching a missile during a military exercise.
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