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The IFV lacks the ability to install add-on protection packages like slat armor cages or explosive reactive armor (ERA). [6] The BMP-2's armor is very similar to the original BMP-1, resistant to 23 mm armor-piercing rounds on its frontal arc from 500 meters (and immune to 12.7 mm armor-piercing from the same angle) and to 7.62x39 mm armor ...
That said, a BMP-2’s autocannon could still defeat a Bradley’s side or rear armor. Bradley from B Company of the 12th Cavalry Regiment launches a TOW missile at the Grafenwoehr training range ...
BMP-2: Infantry fighting vehicle 2,100 [52] Soviet Union: 2,900 BMP-2 and 70+ BMP-2M in service. [114] Russia will upgrade several hundred vehicles. [119] [120] [51] As of 17 July 2024, at least 1,522 (1,325 BMP-2(K), 17 BMP-2D, 37 BMP-2M, 136 BMP-2 675-sb3KDZ and 7 BMP-2M 675-sb3KDZ) have been lost in the Russian invasion of Ukraine. An ...
The 4.2" Mortar Platoon of D/16 Armor, 173rd Airborne, on a fire mission in Operation Waco in Vietnam The Vietnam War was the first combat opportunity for mechanized infantry , a technically new type of infantry with its roots in the armored infantry of World War II , now using the M113 armored personnel carrier.
The hull is 6.97 meters in length, 2.68 meters in height and weighs 14.78 tons. Info about armor composition and thickness is unknown but it may be as thick or thicker than what is equipped on the BMP-1/2. The hull is noticeably angular compared to the BMP-1/2 and that may be due to ease of manufacturing and the addition of ERA.
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.
BMP-2 infantry fighting vehicle and ZIL-131 truck. YPR-765 infantry fighting vehicles donated to Ukraine by the Netherlands. The YPR-765 is a Dutch derivative of the American M113 armoured personnel carrier. BMP-1 [173] BMP-2 [173] BMP-3 [173] BMD-1 [217] BMD-2 [217] BMD-4 [218] BTR-4 Bucephalus [219] BVP M-80 [170] M2 Bradley [119] [220 ...
The second vehicle was intended to be much bigger to allow fitting of the BMP-2 turret and later became the BMD-3. The modernised variant of the BMD-1 was developed in 1983 and incorporated the new B-30 turret [ citation needed ] armed with a 30 mm 2A42 multi-purpose autocannon, a 7.62 mm PKT coaxial machine gun and a pintle-mounted 9P135M ATGM ...