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It's not just looks nice, it is probably the best "light" APC project among former soviet states and battle proven at that. Not a high bar to begin with but hey. The Iraqi contract which was USA funded was cancelled not due to the fact that APC itself (which was designed by HBKM btw) was bad, but rather due to the fact that manufacturer (Malishev factory) was incompetent. They weren't able to actually supply that number of this vehicles in that time so they rushed with a poor quality steel. Overall the Iraqis were more or less satisfied with first batch, with some negative comment on the peculiarity of combat module functioning and minor constructional peculiarities, also the Malishev factory service was S**t. However, since then the manufacturer has improved and removed many errors. The first picture is actually a screenshot from the ISIS video (which was unfortunately for me deleted), where BTR-4 takes probably soviet era ATGM and several RPGs and survives. And the second one says more about the users than the vehicle itself, Iraqis rarely put them to good use just like with M1A1s. From the 3rd on out is the first battle experience in Ukraine so it normally takes RPGs and light/heavy caliber arms unlike other BRT family vehicles.
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