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- Afghanistan – Mostly captured vehicles from the war with the Soviet Union, some were abandoned vehicles left behind by retreating Soviets and some 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
- Belarus
- Bulgaria – 24+
- Azerbaijan – 29
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Cambodia – 200
- Cameroon - 200-300
- Cape Verde
- Côte d'Ivoire – 13 delivered by Belarus between 2002 and 2003.
- Cuba – 100 BRDM-2 used for the special forces and 50 modernized with a 120mm mortar
- Czech Republic – BRDM-2RKh and 9P31
- Djibouti
- Egypt – 300 BRDM-2 and BRDM-2UM
- Eritrea
- Estonia – 7
- Georgia - 17
- Guinea – 4 delivered by Ukraine in 1998.
- Hungary
- India
- Indonesia
- Iraq – New 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 New Iraqi Army in 2006. Iraqi Regular Army operated 1,300 BRDM-1 and BRDM-2 armoured scout cars and vehicles based on them.
- Israel
- Latvia – 2
- Libya
- Lithuania – 10 in service as of 2006. 21 delivered by Poland between 1993 and 1995 (10 in 1993 and 11 in 1995).
- Macedonia – 10
- Republic of Moldova
- Maldives
- Mongolia – 150 BRDM-2 and BRDM-2Rkh
- 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.
- 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.
- Peru – Late production BDRM-2 model and 9P133 ATGM launcher.
- Poland – 200 BRDM-2s, 120 BRDM-2s modernized to BRDM-2M-96, BRDM-2M-96i, BRDM-2M-97 "Żbik-B" and BRDM-2M-98 "Żbik-A" level, 22 BRDM-2s modernized to BRDM-2M-96ik "Szakal" level, 100 9P133 "Malyutka" and 18 9P148 "Konkurs" tank destroyers, a dozen of BRDM-2RS NBC reconnaissance vehicles, an unknown number of 9K31 Strela-1 self-propelled surface-to-air missile launchers as well as BRDM-2 R-1A and BRDM-2 R-5 command vehicles.
- Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic – Late production BDRM-2 model and 9P31 SAM launcher.
- Romania – 138 (12 9P122 "Malyutka", 78 9P133 "Malyutka" and 48 9P148 Konkurs)
- Russia – 2,000
- Serbia – 76
- Slovakia
- Slovenia – 5 late production BDRM-2s. Command company of 44th Armored-mechanized Battalion "Wolfs" operates BRDM-2 vehicles.
- Sudan – 60 delivered by Belarus between 2003 and 2004 (39 in 2003 and 21 in 2004).
- Syrian Arab Republic – 950
- Somalia
- Turkmenistan – 30
- Ukraine – Delivered 13 BRDM-2 armoured scout cars to the New Iraqi Army in 2006.
- Vietnam – 200
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
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