In Yemen rebels Huthis created a makeshift infantry fighting vehicle, installing a tower from BTR-80A on pickup Toyota Land Cruiser. The car received a combat module with a 20 millimeters and machine gun. Reports about it Defence Blog.
The basis of the improvised BMP served by the Toyota Land Cruiser Series 70 pickup, refined by the Jordanian national defense and industrial holding Kaddb. So, the windshield of the machine was additionally strengthened by blocks of armoredecol, and the size of the side windows was reduced.
The main difference of the car from serial analogues was the BPPU-1 module developed by specialists of Muromteplovoz OJSC. The module is equipped with an automatic 20 millimeter caliber 2A72 gun and a twisted machine gun of a 7.62 millimeter Caliber Machine gun. The gun unit received day and night sights, which allows you to fire at any time of the day.
Initially, the BPPU-1 module was installed on an upgraded BTR-80A, which was developed in the early 1990s. Before the beginning of the civil war, the defense department of Yemen acquired more than 90 armored personnel carriers in Russia.
previously it became known that the written off armored vehicles imitated the attack of the likely enemy on the strategic exercises “West-2021”. Tanks T-80 and armored personnel carriers of BTR-70 were destroyed by tankers and fighters of motorized rifle units.