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The BMP-2 (Boyevaya Mashina Pekhoty, Russian: Боевая Машина Пехоты, literally "combat machine/vehicle (of the) infantry") [4] is an amphibious infantry fighting vehicle introduced in the 1980s in the Soviet Union, following on from the BMP-1 of the 1960s.
Unlike the BMP, it lacked the firepower and armor to defeat and survive against other armored combat vehicles. After the appearance of the BMP, the US responded with a series of infantry fighting vehicle designs, starting with the MICV-65, although nothing entered service until the M-2 Bradley appeared during the early 1980s.
A M2 Bradley tracked infantry fighting vehicle in US service during the Second Battle of Fallujah (2004) A Russian BMP-3 with embarked infantry. An infantry fighting vehicle (IFV), also known as a mechanized infantry combat vehicle (MICV), [1] is a type of armoured fighting vehicle used to carry infantry into battle and provide direct-fire support. [2]
The BMP-3 is a Soviet and Russian infantry fighting vehicle, successor to the BMP-1 and BMP-2. The abbreviation BMP stands for Boevaya Mashina Pekhoty ( Боевая Машина Пехоты , literally "infantry combat vehicle").
The company's main products are the well-known BMP-2 and BMP-3 infantry fighting vehicles, [3] which are in service in 29 countries [4] and, since April 2024, the BMD-4 airborne fighting vehicles. [5] The company also produces a wide range of civil products, such as small-sized tractors, municipal construction machines and automobile trailers ...
The infantry fighting vehicle concept was first conceived of in the 1960s during the Cold War, where a confrontation between NATO and Warsaw Pact countries was expected to be dominated by tanks, so infantry required transport to sustain the pace of advance while having armament to fight tanks, and armor to withstand machine gun and artillery fire; the Soviet Union created the BMP-1/BMP-2 and ...
BMP2 or BMP-2 may refer to: Bone morphogenetic protein 2; Boyevaya Mashina Pekhoty , a Soviet infantry fighting vehicle; See also. BMP (disambiguation) BMP1 ...
Chassis base: Variant: Origin: Image: Operators: Notes: Tracked IFV in service AMX-10P: AMX-10P 25 (Marines ICV) (GIAT Industries) France Singapore Army [1] [2]This is an amphibious IFV.