The vehicle was developed on the chassis trucks TAM 110 As the prototype was completed in 1983 and premiered the show at a military parade in 1985.
The arms were three versions of the BOV-1 POLO known as M83 with a dome on which they were built antitank rocket launchers Maljutka AT-3 Sagger, with a semi-automatic system management, BOV 3 anti-aircraft variant of the dome which was built anti-aircraft gun 20 / 3 mm M-55A4 Hispano-Yugoslavian production.
At that time, the parade and display type with two-pipe 30 mm cannon, which is located on both sides of the dome, but never entered the arms of the JNA.
The highlight of this development was a near famous type of APC, M 86 and BOV VP (military police who used and is now used by the Military Police of Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia until recently.
The vehicle was armed with M-86 machine gun 7.62 mm PKT and Borving M-87/NSVT 12.7 mm.
The civil war in the former Yugoslavia with mounted Browning was the most frequently used vehicle. During the conflict in the former Yugoslavia, generally supplemented with additional armor on the turret and sides of the vehicle. A number of vehicles were modified by installing a machine gun 12.7 and 14.5 mm, while Bosnia was seen BOV with built unguided rocket launcher grain.
The vehicle can carry 10 people.
There are two Variants BOV-SN Medical version and BOV KM command version. Both vehicles have never entered operational service.
BOV family vehicle makes modest armament and armor protection.
Armor BOV is made up of anti-ballistic plates interconnected zavarivanjerm thickness 4 to 8 mm, which provides protection from small arms and fragmentation effects of smaller caliber shells.
Construction of the vehicle is designed as a navigable body of water and successfully overcomes obstacles to depths of up to 1.1m.
On both sides of the vehicle are mounted smoke grenade boxes that enable the creation of a smokescreen 100 to 150 meters in front of the BOV in the Serbian Army used in the unit of the military police, the hosts protivoklopmim mechanized battalion BOV M 83 as a backup in raketinim Artillery anti-aircraft air defense units BOV 3
BOV used by special units of the Serbian Interior Ministry SAJ, PTJ, the Republic of Serbian police, the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Slovenia, a special police unit. In peacekeeping missions in Afghanistan have used it Slovenian and Croatian Army in conjunction with hammer M1114 to patrol the surrounding bases.
Serbia now modernize all versions BOV labeled "Bow M-10" and "Bow M-11" with reinforced armor modern look and remotely manageable battle station DUBS 30 mm.
