BTR-80是蘇聯設計的裝甲運兵車，在1980年初期，考量到阿富汗作戰上的問題，蘇聯開始進一步發展裝甲車，於1986年服役BTR-80開始取代BTR-60（英語：BTR-60）、BTR-70（英語：BTR-70）。

The BTR-80 (Russian: бронетранспортер/Bronetransporter, literally "Armoured Transporter") is an 8x8 wheeled amphibious armoured personnel carrier (APC) designed in the USSR. It was adopted in 1986 and replaced the previous vehicles, the BTR-60 and BTR-70, in the Soviet Army.^[2] It was first deployed during the Soviet war in Afghanistan.