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The BMP Is Part Tank, Part Taxi
War is Boring ^
| March 4, 2015
| S.K. Au-Yeong
Posted on 03/05/2015 4:46:50 AM PST by C19fan
When the Cold War escalated in the 1950s, the United States and its European allies knew that the Warsaw Pact far outnumbered the alliances own tanks, artillery and infantry.
Should the Soviets launch an invasion of Western Europe, the NATO armies expected and plannedto use tactical nuclear weapons to make up for their inferior numbers.
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TOPICS: History; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: bmp; ifv; soviet; treadheads; warisboring
The daddy of the Infantry Fighting Vehicle.
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posted on
03/05/2015 4:46:50 AM PST
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
The BMP Is Part Tank, Part Taxi and part death trap by fire.
Whoever put those thin gas tanks as doors on the back was probably hanged by the KGB.
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posted on
03/05/2015 4:57:15 AM PST
by
DCBryan1
(No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!!)
To: C19fan
The BTR-90 is its latest offspring, using 8 wheels over tracks. More speed and maneuverability, with updated armament.
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posted on
03/05/2015 5:03:33 AM PST
by
edpc
(Wilby 2016)
To: edpc
The BTR and the BMP do not share lineage. They’re completely separate vehicles. The BTR started life in the 50s, and while there have been a couple of tracked variants, it was always a wheeled APC. The BMP didn’t appear until the 1960s, and uses a completely different hull design.
To: C19fan
With one really cool and significant advantage over other IFVs: the infantry passengers can fire their individual weapons from within the vehicle.
IFVs have always been slightly armored boxes to transport infantry but usually they were at the mercy whoever was driving the thing and if there was somebody with the nerve to man the machine gun out in the breeze. The BMP not only had a bad-ass turret but firing ports for the passengers.
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posted on
03/05/2015 5:31:43 AM PST
by
Chainmail
(A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
To: C19fan
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posted on
03/05/2015 6:23:04 AM PST
by
Pontiac
(The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
To: Chainmail
Firing ports are pretty much useless. If the vehicle is moving, hand held weapons won’t be accurate. If the vehicle is stationary, it is a conspicuous target that doesn’t have enough armor to protect the people inside.
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posted on
03/05/2015 9:12:52 AM PST
by
glorgau
To: C19fan
Otherwise known as an Apache appetizer.
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posted on
03/05/2015 9:19:42 AM PST
by
TADSLOS
(The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
To: TADSLOS
Armor piercing ammo goes right thru a BMP without exploding unless it hits the engine block.
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posted on
03/05/2015 9:20:43 AM PST
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: TADSLOS
That’s a good one. Bonus just need to use the 30 MM chain gun to make those look like Swiss Cheese saving the Hellfires for the real AFVs.
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posted on
03/05/2015 9:22:16 AM PST
by
C19fan
To: TADSLOS
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posted on
03/05/2015 9:26:24 AM PST
by
Idaho_Cowboy
(Ride for the Brand. Joshua 24:15)
To: central_va
The 30mm M789 is a HEDP round. It is a point detonating shaped charge effective against light armor that also produces anti- personnel effects from fragmentation.
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posted on
03/05/2015 9:50:00 AM PST
by
TADSLOS
(The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
To: TADSLOS
It is better to use an HE round rather than an AP round against a BMP. My 2 cents. AP rounds designed to penetrate MBT frontal armor goes thru like cardboard on a BMP
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posted on
03/05/2015 10:00:22 AM PST
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: TADSLOS
think of the poor bastards riding in a BMD... eat them like peanuts
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posted on
03/05/2015 3:52:50 PM PST
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
To: glorgau
I disagree. If the choice is sitting in a cramped lightly armored can with no way of fighting back or having at least a small port to fire my personal weapon out to at least make some noise, I'll pick the latter. Conversely, if I'm some hero with a LAW or an RPG who wants to take out an armored personnel carrier, I'd really have to screw up my nerve to attack something with dozens of small arms pointed my way.
Remember the lessons of the Soviets versus the Porsche Elefant: lots of people swarming an armored vehicle with no close-in protection end up being static displays at the enemy's museums.
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posted on
03/10/2015 8:17:28 AM PDT
by
Chainmail
(A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
To: DCBryan1
The BMP Is Part Tank, Part Taxi and part death trap by fire. Whoever put those thin gas tanks as doors on the back was probably hanged by the KGB. Beats the heck out of having a plastic bag full of mogas inside the crew compartment, as with our early M113 APCs. And when they upgraded to a Diesel engine and a little more safer fuel tank arrangement, guess where the fuel storage went? In a pair of rear-mounted tanks on either side of the crew ramp.
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posted on
03/12/2015 10:41:37 AM PDT
by
archy
To: Chode
think of the poor bastards riding in a BMD... eat them like peanuts When I had the opportunity to work with BMPs and BTRs, we most generally rode on top. A lot of the mech infantrymen in Vietnam felt the same way about their M113s.
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posted on
03/12/2015 10:43:28 AM PDT
by
archy
To: archy
yup, it's hell when riding on the outside, is safer the riding on the inside...
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posted on
03/12/2015 3:07:44 PM PDT
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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