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 Russian 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.
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Models
TAB-63 - prototype, predecessor of TAB-71
TAB-71 - based on BTR-60. 1872 copies manufactured. In 2010, Romania owned 846 TAB-71 transporters, 375 being in use. 161 were transferred to Moldova and 20 to Ukraine.
TAB-77 - based on BTR-70
TABC-79 - 4×4 version of TAB-77
B-33 Zimbru - based on BTR-80
RN-94 - a joint Romanian-Turkish design, small numbers of the MEDEVAC version were delivered to Bangladesh (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 4x4 - proposed design, 4×4
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